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Run Don't Walk 1!

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.com 2 actually misspells Grammer and Caterbury.

Was in the Independent 3 last week.

  1. Removed old makezine.com/2013/09/11/passive-energy-harvesting-run-dont-walk/ link here.
  2. Removed old makezine.com link here.
  3. Removed old independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/run-dont-walk-the-school-that-gets-pupils-to-generate-electricity-8798961.html link here.

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