Pavegen - generating electricity from feet

[browolf]

Apparently this technology ( School Trials | Green Energy by Pavegen Systems Ltd, London ) is installed in some schools. If anyone here has it, it would be interesting to know how much electricity it makes.

[X-13]

This looks cool. But it's only really work somewhere with a lot of foot traffic.

Most of the day in a school is spent in a classroom.

This would be perfect for a big shopping centre though.

[mats]

Next to none when compared to the cost of installing it I suspect. The website only seems to show lights being powered - probable very efficient ones too. The website is also a little light on actual figures.

Might be useful where you need light but have no mains feed - but in a school (indoors)? Can't see it meself.

[browolf]

with 1600 kids some of our corridors have a lot of traffic, there's a crossroad junction near the hall/dining room that is also used to get across to the other side of the school. and we have to have 2 periods of lunchtime. Although 00s of kids pushing each other up a corridor might defeat stepping on a single slab.

Depends how long it takes to pay for itself.