Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!

Rock Doc

Stepping up to a bright idea

At first I wasn’t sure I was reading the CNN report correctly. The story hinged on special pavement that uses the impact of human feet to generate electricity.

That’s right. A young man in Britain has invented a device that harvests the energy from a footfall hitting the pavement to power things like LED lights.

Talk about a bright idea.

The “PaveGen” project is the brainchild of Laurence Kemball-Cook, age 25 years. He’s an engineer who built a prototype of the device during his last year in school and is now working to make and market his creation.

The PaveGen tiles work because they have a b...

 

Reader Comments(0)

 
 
Rendered 04/21/2024 00:05