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Pavegen: Energy Generating Pavement Hits the Streets

by Diane Pham, 10/28/09

sustainable design, green design, urban design, pavegen, energy generating pavement, kinetic energy, renewable energy, crowdsourced energy

Any one point on a busy street can receive up to 50,000 steps a day, so imagine if you could take all that foot traffic and turn it into something useful – like energy! A new product designed by Laurence Kemball-Cook, the director of Pavegen Systems Ltd., can do just that. With a minuscule flex of 5mm, the energy generating pavement is able to absorb the kinetic energy produced by every footstep, creating 2.1 watts of electricity per hour.

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