PROJECT TOULOUSE
Pavement Power introduction
An innovative city with innovative leaders, Toulouse, in the Southwest of France is a city of students and a centre for culture and cutting-edge technology. The deputy mayor, Alexandre Marciel, is in charge of the sustainable development of the city and is convinced that the movement of people could be harnessed to power streetlights. Marciel got in touch with Sustainable Dance Club and together we started the revolutionary project "pavement power"; generating electricity for street lights using the up and down movement of passing pedestrians.
Project description
The project began in April 2010 with a two-week trial testing the viability of using the Sustainable Dance Floor concept in a normal street setup. The experiment provided evidence that our technology could be used to harness the energy of pedestrians and is now being developed further into a more generic energy generating floor module. This new product is called the Sustainable Energy Floor (SEF). The SEF modules have been designed to generate as much electricity as possible in high traffic pedestrian areas. You can read more about SEF here.
An article written about this project by The Guardian can be read here
An innovative city with innovative leaders, Toulouse, in the Southwest of France is a city of students and a centre for culture and cutting-edge technology. The deputy mayor, Alexandre Marciel, is in charge of the sustainable development of the city and is convinced that the movement of people could be harnessed to power streetlights. Marciel got in touch with Sustainable Dance Club and together we started the revolutionary project "pavement power"; generating electricity for street lights using the up and down movement of passing pedestrians.
Project description
The project began in April 2010 with a two-week trial testing the viability of using the Sustainable Dance Floor concept in a normal street setup. The experiment provided evidence that our technology could be used to harness the energy of pedestrians and is now being developed further into a more generic energy generating floor module. This new product is called the Sustainable Energy Floor (SEF). The SEF modules have been designed to generate as much electricity as possible in high traffic pedestrian areas. You can read more about SEF here.
An article written about this project by The Guardian can be read here