{"id":15293,"date":"2013-01-15T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15293"},"modified":"2013-01-15T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:31:27","slug":"kinetic-energy-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/kinetic-energy-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don't Need No Solar Panels; We've Got Hyper Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harvesting kinetic energy produced by people walking and moving seems like a no-brainer, and the stories we’ve seen so far focus on spaces ranging from dance floors<\/a> to health clubs<\/a>. But if you’ve ever been to an elementary or middle school, you know that they may well be the perfect location for such experiments – there’s a lot of energy in those hallways!<\/p>\n

British start-up Pavegen<\/a> saw that potential a few years ago, and installed one of its systems at a school in the UK for proof of concept. It worked, and now they’d like to expand this project into two more schools: another in Great Britain, and one in the US. They’ve launched a Kickstarter project<\/a> to fund this expansion: take a look at their video on the first school installation to get a better sense of what they want to do:<\/p>\n