
After reigning the windmill industry with its world’s largest offshore wind farm, Holland is now turning towards human power to generate electricity. Unbelievably, it now has a revolving door at a restaurant in the Zeist train station that generates electricity when people walk through it!
Working with the design company Rau in an attempt to cut down its carbon footprint, the restaurant has come up with this amazing power generation system, which has a generator fixed to its revolving doors that converts the energy of the people passing through it into electricity. Capable of generating approximately 4600 KWH per year, the system roughly produces enough power to make a cup of coffee when one person walks through it. Apart from this, the restaurant is investing on other green sources like a Dutch windmill, a special low energy cooling system and a sun collector.
Highlighting the fact that this small restaurant single-handedly wouldn’t be able to save the planet, but just as millions of drops make the great ocean, such small savings throughout the world that would make Earth a greener place to live.
Source: EcoWorldly
Posted by Ramya on December 5, 2008 in Energy, Environment · 1 Comment
Additionally they must recover electricity from the downward movement of escalators and elevators.