There are 280 days at the beginning of the London Olympics game 2012, but already it speaks for a year.
The curiosity are many, but the floor in the Olympic village that transforms in kinetic energy into electrical energy is truly unique and fantastic invention.
The principle is simple, a person walking normally on the sidewalk (kinetic energy) and its motion is converted by special tiles that produce appasandosi of 5 mm, thanks to the sensors and mechanical elettrocini current (electricity).
This revolutionary invention is the English engineer Laurence Kemball-Cook, who has developed the “Pavegen,” as we christened him, a floor that can transform the energy from footsteps into electricity.
Every time someone approaches the tile Pavegen, renewable energy is collected from the track.The technology converts the kinetic energy into electrical energy that can be stored and used for a variety of applications.
Tiles are robust and easy to put between the floor of the sidewalks that surround London with Pavegen can “exploit” the thousand of people who daily throng the streets of London and thanks to their feet more ‘or less can be fast turn on the lights for the city ‘. In fact, this particular type of flooring will be ‘used in the Olympic village to generate electricity to light bulbs and part of the village.
The most important applications include the lighting of street lighting, display esegnaletica.
The system is particularly useful when network connections are not feasible when there is a requirement for a solution of low carbonio.
So London will be ‘first city’ in the world to have this green floor, but for sure this invention will be ‘broughtaround the world. The young inventor Laurence Kemball and ‘have already been awarded many prizes, and’ was funded by the British government and some of his fellow inventors.
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