And Now…Energy Generating Revolving Doors

It’s always a pleasure to learn about research into energy saving measures and how we can help conserve and save precious energy through simple day-to-day activities. To further this cause, Boon Edam have introduced the world’s first energy producing revolving door. The idea is simplicity itself, basically a generator is attached to the revolving door and it produces energy when pushed by people stepping in or out of the Driebergen-Zeist railway station in The Netherlands. The railway station is a busy place with a daily capacity for 8500 commuters, all of them passing through the revolving door contribute to an energy saving of around 4600 kWh per year.

The energy produced is used to illuminate the revolving doors with low-energy LED lights. Since moving away from fossil fuels is high on the list of many administrations, this idea of producing electricity using human energy is sure to receive positive reviews.

The cool thing about this concept is that it is a simple idea with great scope for endless replication all over the world. If human energy expended is activities can be used to run small dynamos or generators then the cumulative energy production will have a huge impact on the amount of clean energy produced globally.