Get on The Train and Help Generate Electricity

Photo: Israel Railways

Mass transit has always been one of the ways to save the Earth from global warming and toxic emissions, but an Israeli company is now making sure that the green footprint of railway commuters expands even farther.

In the past few weeks an Innowattech, an Israeli green energy company, has installed generators on parts of the Israeli railway tracks, that can generate energy from the trains movement. The technology used to generate this kind of energy is called Piezo Electric and it uses vibration, motion or changes in weight to generate electricity that is pumped into the general electric grid. According to the firms experiments an hour’s worth of train traffic is enough to generate 120 kWh of electricity, which can power around 150 homes.

While railways are considered green already, this may certainly provide them with  extra income, that will enable not only promote better railways, but hopeful lower transit travelers costs.

But why stop at rail? Install these generators in a road, and all of a sudden asphalt strips become power stations. While in till now only about a hundred feet of generators were installed, Expanding the project to a length of half a mile along a single lane would be capable of producing  sufficient electricity to provide for the average consumption in 200-300 households.

Now that’s traveling green

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