Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Green Heart - playground that turns calories burned in electricity

A dream come true of many generations of Soviet optimizers who wanted to tie to each dancer and each player on the dynamo that all their "useless" movement turned into electricity. In the United Kingdom began to emerge street playgrounds called Green Heart, which are also power.

turns calories burned in electricity


Turn the frenetic energy of children into something useful for the economy have already tried - in the spring of 2014 in the Netherlands there was a carousel , which produces electricity when driving. Now fans of alternative energy sources, and decided to take for athletes. Anyway, in the UK.

After all, a group of engineers and environmentalists from the United Kingdom has established street racing simulators, which, when they generate electricity. This energy is mostly goes to the local power grid, but part of it can be used on-site by connecting to a special outlet to charge your smartphone or tablet computer.

By the way, produced in this way energy is used primarily for the needs of the residents adjacent to the sports ground Green Heart of houses, which significantly reduce the amount of their monthly utility payments for electricity.

The first such power street area appeared in November 2014 in London. But the authors of the idea of ​​seeking funding for the deployment of such systems across the country. After one such simulator, of course, does not make the weather in the power of Great Britain, and millions - will be noticeable help in turning the traditional power of the country in the "green".