Supermarket car park produces power

by David Allen on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Sometimes the supermarket giants are able to come up with a fantastic idea and this one is no exception to that rule. The have realised that having thousands of cars entering and leaving their car park there much be a way that they could use this to generate power.

 

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After a lot of thinking they have come up with this idea that uses a row of plates that rock as the cars move over them, this causes a rocking motion that turns generators and therefore produces energy. This simple installation could produce enough power to keep the entire store going twenty four hours a day and fro seven days a week.

 

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