Japan is turning footsteps into electricity! Using piezoelectric tiles, every step you take generates a small amount of energy. Millions of steps together can power LED lights and displays in busy places like Shibuya Station. A brilliant way to create a sustainable and smart city -- turning movement into clean, renewable energy
>>533402117tell me more about the manufacturing aspect. longevity, costs, disposal etc
>>533402117can we put piezoelectric elements on people with Parkinson's disease and connect them to a power station?
If its durable this is a good idea.This was the problem with "solar roads" they weren't durable and couldn't take a beating.Also Japan only has maybe 20 years left if they dont turn around and start purging the filthy gaijin from their streets.
>>533402117I got an idea- get rid of the LED lights and dsiplays and all "busy" places and the tiles wont be necessary
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>>533402414Did you just solve free energy?"Dont need it" ... why didn't we think of this before??We should remigrate 100% of all non-whites and jews from all western nations immediately to reduce our energy needs and "go green".
>>533402435Lightning - Fox = rug + socks
>>533402117The problem with replacing our sidewalks and roads is always making something as durable as concrete and cement. If this shit can keep itself in place after years of furious walking then why the hell not, unless the gain vs cost is like 1% then maybe it isn't worth all the maintenance.
>>533402117>even the pavement is pedolectric now
>>533402117Cum
>>533402215The issue is more that the absolutely miniscule amount of useable energy generated will never cumulatively exceed the amount of energy required to make these. Still neat though.
>>533402117I give it 2 minutes before your average american meth head prys up a tile and starts trying to strip it for wire
>>533402117Sounds like a waste of money, the issue isn't 'can we generate electricity ' but can we generate it economically
>>533402117Won't work in north America.Nobody walks and in the off chance a burger moves outside, the tiles would be crushed under the landwhales weight.
>>533402117https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9KLQJ8bEn8these totally unnecessary minute intrusions into normal human life serve only to give jobs to the people who are most unnecessary, the bureaucrats! The Energy is right before your eyes!
>>533402275Not only can we, its ethically required that we do it.Its in everyones best interests
>>533402117
Just put them in public onaholes already
>>533402215Right now, it's pretty useless. Costs more to manufacture than it will likely generate, and likely to require frequent replacing due to, y'know, being used as a floor. However, there's potential in it if the idea gets refined, so it's good to experiment with. Worst case, we know it's pretty useless.Unfortunately, even if it is refined into something useful, it's pretty limited in where it would actually end up being useful, since you need a lot of foot traffic to even hope to go net positive on these things
>>533402117and how much electricity did it take to make these?
>>533402117Too bad it wouldn't work in America since they don't walk.>>533402215Funny how all these aspects all of a sudden becomes important to you lot when it's about greenish energy.
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>>533403490The first part is correct, not enough Americans walk enough. Hypothetically, Americans being fat is actually a net positive though, since that means the steps are made with more weight, so each step counts for a little more.But the bigger problem is maintenance. The Japanese are a very gentle and merciful people when it comes to their civic infrastructure. Small things like the idea of eating while walking being incredibly rude, or the commitment to carry your garbage to a can, or the weird autism to walk politely when nobody is watching, and the culture-wide phenomenon of not driving on sidewalks when mildly panicked adds up to a much lower maintenance and replacement requirement, and that's the real motherfucker here. If a cheeseburger, medium fry, and a large soda get dropped on this and trampled into the panels, that entire section needs to be replaced. If a homeless person pisses his pants and vomits the fent-cum-weed slurry on the panels, that's a replacement. If a road rager decides fuck this shit, I'm flipping a U and driving on the sidewalk to make that left a block back, then that's an entire block of panels that need replacing. If the police tackle someone into the panels, that's replacement.
