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Run Don't Walk1!

Every time someone walks over one of the special kinetic tiles installed in the 1,200-pupil Simon Langton Boys Grammar School in Canterbury, England, they generate electricity which is harvested by a passive energy harvesting system. With a peak generation capacity of just 100W, over the course of a year the 12m2 of tiles won't harvest that much energy; enough to power a standard light bulb for a couple of months, or fully charge 850 mobile phones.

The article in makezine.com2 actually misspells Grammer and Caterbury.

Was in the Independent3 last week.

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Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed to Clare and dad to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php etc. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.