Clean energy from humans

Two students graduated from the faculty of architecture at the University of Massachusetts have the idea of accumulation and use of energy that we humans lost in ... when walking.

To demonstrate this principle, two students, James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, created a test device that uses human force to sit up and turn it into energy. The energy source can make a flywheel rotate, or enough for a generator to light up 4 diodes.

The system collects energy from human activities called the 'Crowd Workshop'. The energy obtained from an individual is of course negligible. But if we gather the energy of a city, then we do a lot of work.

For example, every human step can light a 60 watt bulb. If 28,527 footsteps were accumulated, this energy would cause the train to move within a second. What about 84,162,203 steps? Then we can have enough energy to launch a space shuttle!

The 'Crowd Workshop' will be a sealed device composed of various parts, transformed under the action of human steps, accumulating vibrations from the movements. These devices will be located at the pedestrian crossing points in the city.

So along with other sources of energy such as wind, sun ... gradually will come to one day people use only clean energy.