GOOD LOOK: NYC Revolution Door

Revolving doors are ubiquitous in our cities. Why not use them to generate free energy? The Revolution Door by Fluxxlab would do just that. It converts the kinetic energy used to push the door into electricity. Several similar projects are in operation worldwide. Now we're not just spinning our wheels.
Producer: Eve Marson Editor: Jeff Conrad
Special Thanks to Urban Omnibus
http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/04/fluxxlab-making-ideas-happen/

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[joncoppola28]

>>>They should utilize the energy from prison systems. The inmates spend 10-30% of each day working out.

I say turn them into hamsters and make some good use out of them. Let`s power this city one inmate at a time.

(Note: this was a joke comment. So save your energy. No pun intended)

[ROAHHHH]

Geothermal Energy could power the world for 4,000 years by itself, and its renewable until the earth is no longer here. but there is no money in it because they cant charge you something that's in such high abundance, like air. so it wont be done.

[Jeff73ca]

@WaiWu spoken like a true armchair quarterback....also technically the gearing for these systems is already sitting on a shelf in some store somewhere waiting to be purchased so there is no extra energy being used to manufacture these mechanisms.

[thecorcorangroup]

This is such a wonderfully simple idea, we'd love to see this implemented on a wide scale across New York city. Great job!

[WaiWu]

To be honest...the energy spend on digging those metals, make 'em into gear and chains; to make clean energy.....is balance out!

[0marius0]

probably these doors would give back the energy used to build them like in a million years

[RarewareLover]

@honchung these doors are chic

[Hekatonkheirus]

be open minded and active thinking :) good luck for you and your interesting in new and cleaner world :) lame ok bye

[DrakeMagnum]

go do it yourself honchung

[DrakeMagnum]

quote from the clip you just watched: "In a typical NYC building, the revolution door could power 16 flourescent bulbs for an entire day"

[suzicakes]

The did address the RPM issue and pointed out that they had a lot of torque, torque can be converted to RPM.