Generating Electricity The JR Way!
East Japan Railways – also known as JR EAST, also known as plain ol’ JR – have done something to make me happy in my organic cotton pants. They’re currently testing a system which uses the movement of passengers through their ticket gates to generate electricity. The vibrations caused by people walking through and over special plates create an electrical field which light up a lamp on the ticket gate.
Doesn’t sound like much yet, but hopefully this is the start of making the railways in Japan more environmentally friendly. If that energy could be used simplyto power the ticket gates, that would be a huge saving in electricity.
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