The New York Times shows the value of “kid power.” Dan Pink writes (excerpt):
Raj Pandian, a professor of engineering and computer science at Tulane University, looked at kids at play and asked not ”Where do they get all that energy?” but rather, ”How can I turn all that energy into power?”
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Two children playing on a seesaw for a half-hour can generate enough power to operate a laptop computer for 20 to 40 minutes. Because the system also stores energy, Pandian says he hopes it will become a reliable and clean source of power for those places, like schools, where there are playgrounds nearby and kids to use them. . . . ”It’s literally free energy,” he says. As long as there are kids at play, the supply is inexhaustible.
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such an awesome idea…why don’t they make everybody ride or walk or somehow expend energy for their own consumption? not only would it be a source of sustainable energy, but it would cure the prolem of obesity!