domingo, 30 de novembro de 2008

The future is in our.... feet!

Yup! Watch this out:



(for more info, watch this http://www.sustainabledanceclub.com/)



'Come on, don't joke with me' you may say.

When you turn on a lighter, those that you just need to press the button, it produces a spark. Do you know how is that spark produced? By pressing a piezoelectric crystal. Those materials when under pressure produce small amounts of electric energy. I am talking about this topic because I saw a documentary on the TV talking about this. Do you know that if a person walks for 1 hour on a piezoelectric floor it would produce about 50 watts? ‘Not much’, you may say, and you are right. But think in an airport or in a shopping mall or even in a train station. Can you imagine the amount of energy that could be saved by just changing the floor tiles?

Taking these numbers to an extreme: if all humans, 6 billions, where eventually walking for 1 hour every day in those tiles, it would be produced 300GW of electricity!

That is what we need to do: little changes. Those are the ones which have the greatest impact in our environment. If we do a lot of little changes, we are actually making big changes!


Remember; 1 Euro is made out of of 100 cents!

Um comentário:

Environment disse...

hi!! I liked your video! I can image all the dance floors have many of this things. I definitely would help create energy cause I really like to dance.
Again is a nice video, nobody is going to joke you. bye kiss*