A recent two-day Melbourne
event, All-Energy Australia 2014, featured a talk by the founder and CEO of Britain’s
Pavegen, Laurence Kemball-Cook.
Laurence brought to the expo news about his company’s
development of an exciting concept through which electrical power is created
simply by walking on tiles.
The tile-concept has been used as a trial on a soccer field
where the running of the players helped generate power to charge batteries that
ran the field’s lighting at night.
Pavegen’s tiles had been used to power parts of a London
railway station during the 2012 city’s Olympic Games and they had been used on
parts of London roadways, particularly on traffic control features such as
speed humps.
And now the ABC
tells us that a variation on the theme is being used to create a solar powered
bike path in the Netherlands.
The story headed: “The Netherlands unveils world's first solar bicycle path” tells readers that the so-called SolaRoad bike path is made
of concrete modules each measuring 2.5 by 3.5 metres, embedded with solar
panels covered in tempered glass.
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