Crowd Farm - a good idea, but will it ever be implemented?
By Paul F. • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: environment
Two graduate students at MIT (School of Architecture and Planning) idealized a project capable of harnessing the "power of the masses". Literally, what they developed is a way to capture the kinetic energy generated by the movement of crowds.
If you think about it, it makes sense. While the energy of one person walking might not amount to much, if you think usually crowded spaces like train stations or shopping malls where thousands of people walk around everyday, the energy harvested could be significant.
"Our intention was to think of it not as a high-tech mat that would be laid down somewhere, but to really integrate it into a new sort of building system"
The question is, will it ever be tested by an interested company to see how productive and reliable such a system can be? Maybe not in the near future.
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