Green Options » train station http://greenoptions.com/tag/train-station Posts tagged 'train station' Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:31:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Tokyo Train Station Testing Power-Generating Floor http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/tokyo-train-station-testing-power-generating-floor/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/tokyo-train-station-testing-power-generating-floor/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:31:10 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/tokyo-train-station-testing-power-generating-floor/ tokyo

Yesterday, we took a look at how piezoelectrics— crystals or ceramics that generate voltage when mechanical stress is applied— could allow cell phones to be powered by sound waves. Now the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has announced that it is installing piezoelectric elements in the floors of its Tokyo station in an attempt to generate power from passengers passing through ticket gates.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/12/04/tokyo-train-station-testing-power-generating-floor/feed/ ‘The World Without Us’ in Action in Former USSR http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/18/the-world-without-us-in-action-in-former-ussr/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/18/the-world-without-us-in-action-in-former-ussr/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:04:16 +0000 Adam Williams http://ecoscraps.com/2008/09/18/the-world-without-us-in-action-in-former-ussr/

A Georgian train station in Abkhazia has fallen into disrepair — or is it natural repair? — since the years that the elite of Soviet society used it en route to luxurious retreats. It is The World Without Us in action.

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Sources: Design Under Sky and Environmental Graffiti

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