JR passengers to generate electricity

[Kuang_Grade]

I can only hope for the sake of Sapporo subway system that they learned from Lando's mistake and that what ever deal they made with Lord Vader, pray that he does decide to alter that deal.

[Charles]

Occasionally I hear similar stupid ideas. A few years back, a Los Angeles city council member proposed putting "strike plates" on the roads to create "free energy." Cars would drive over the plates, which would compress some sort of hydraulic mechanism, which would drive a liquid turbine that would generate electricity. Apparently the idiot that thought up this stupid idea was sleeping when his high school science teacher explained the Law of Conservation of Energy.

[jingai]

This falls somewhere between creative and moronic.

I liked the idea posted in one of the links of making turnstiles and revolving doors produce electricity, too.

[Charles]

This falls somewhere between creative and moronic.

I liked the idea posted in one of the links of making turnstiles and revolving doors produce electricity, too.

Stanislav Lem wrote a short story that suggested children should be harnessed to make energy. He said that children were so full of kinetic energy, always running around and bumping into things, that they should be kept indoors in rooms connected to generators by ropes and pulleys, so their every action could be converted to electricity.

[emperor]

empty money generating, PR bollix?

Irish tech firm throws down "free energy" gauntlet
Fri Aug 18, 2006
DUBLIN
An Irish technology firm issued a challenge to the world's scientific community on Friday to give its verdict on technology it says smashes one of the basic laws of physics by producing "free energy."
Dublin-based Steorn said it had placed an advertisement in The Economist magazine seeking 12 top physicists to examine the technology -- based on the interaction of magnetic fields -- and publish their results.
"We fully accept there is going to be cynicism surrounding this but what we're saying to the world of science is come and prove us wrong," said Steorn Chief Executive Sean McCarthy.
"The answer to the question we're posing is too big not to look," he added.
The concept of "free energy" -- which contradicts the first law of thermodynamics that in layman's terms states you cannot get more energy out than you put in -- has divided the scientific community for centuries.
The Internet is awash with claims to have cracked the problem using magnets, coils and even crystals.
McCarthy, a founder of Steorn in 2000, said the company discovered the technology while using magnets to try to devise more efficient wind generators and had spent the past three years developing it.
"We put in a small amount of mechanical energy and we get a large amount out ... but until this thing is validated by science we won't be doing anything commercial with it," he said.

[IkemenTommy]

It looks like JR Tokyo Station was the first guinnea pig to implement this:

The rest of the story (in Japanese)

[Greji]

I liked the idea posted in one of the links of making turnstiles and revolving doors produce electricity, too.

It doesn't work in Japan as J-mothers keep letting their kids stick their heads into the revolving doors like in Roppongi Hills, which tend to stop the door thereby reducing the production of electricity.