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What if you could power your neighborhood with your movements?
Floors and groundcover are embedded with piezoelectric energy harvesting systems. When you step on them, the mechanical energy of your movements is captured, stored, and added to local microgrids, generating power throughout the day and night...
Piezoelectric materials – which harvest energy from kinetic movement – are being used on prototypes for pedestrian crossing systems and interactive dance floors. This future was inspired in part by Studio Roosegaarde’s Sustainable Dance Floor project, which generated electricity from people’s dance movements. New research on how to use piezoelectric materials – which harvest energy from kinetic movement – on pedestrian crossing systems further influenced the idea. What kind of impacts do you think these tools would have on daily life?
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Piezoelectric materials – which harvest energy from kinetic movement – are being used on prototypes for pedestrian crossing systems and interactive dance floors. This future was inspired in part by Studio Roosegaarde’s Sustainable Dance Floor project, which generated electricity from people’s dance movements. New research on how to use piezoelectric materials – which harvest energy from kinetic movement – on pedestrian crossing systems further influenced the idea. What kind of impacts do you think these tools would have on daily life?
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What you do think? What if you had these in your neighborhood? Would you want them? Would you not? Why?
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