Pavegen plans to power the world with footsteps
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- UK startup Pavegen plans to take its ingenious technology, which turns the kinetic energy from footsteps into electricity, and apply it to many other areas beyond the sidewalk. Mike Butcher visited their London headquarters to learn more about where it's currently installed and the future of using footsteps as a source of power.
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How is no one mentioning how awkward it looks that the two guys are like two feet apart and facing each other but blatantly not looking at each other's faces?
Right!
Lool I just thought of this...and then boom..someone on youtude is creating the tech already
Same. Happy yet annoyed. Innovation is hard now!
You could still implement your own version for say your neighbourhood. As long it helps the world become greener that could be counted as a win :)
me too. Today actually.
Me too 🤫🤫🤫🤫😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣😂
Thats how an engineer's thinking starts if you see an idea of yours made then you are on the right track.
You can also put this tech in keyboards...
These is very easy technology bro
Sure there is such a huge force touching keyboards. Let's be honest it's fool technology to show up nothing more cost fortune to made produce not that much in the future may cost a lot to repair. It's a shame that we promote such a scams
And wireless keyboard get energy by pressing keys no more batteries....
Gamers producing energy....noice
@@aarkestraclub326 law of thermodynamics
Always some energy will lost in form of heat
What about a jogging path with this technology? You could also do an event where hundreds of people would run a marathon or so and then say how much they produced.
Or concerts🤔
have you ever ran on a beach where you constantly sink in the sand? You wouldn't like to do sports on that tiles.
@@paulhamacher773 People train on beaches especially for that. The whole point of exercising is to exert your body....not to sit in the couch comfortably
great idea im down !
@@paulhamacher773 i actually love running on the beach tho , easier on the joints right
I respect that unlike other similar start ups you are not trying to put it in the roads for obvious reasons, The energy has to come from somewhere so walking on this surface will be more exhausting than walking on a nice hard pavement with no yield not to mention unsettling
This. Energy doesn't come from nothing. Every Wh this thing creates must be provided by the person walking over it plus the losses for efficiency. And for every Wh delivered by the person, he has to eat 4Wh more food, as the human body is brutally inefficient at 26% mechanical efficiency. I doubt pavegen has more then 50% efficienty, so I would expect the human to eat 8Wh of food for every Wh pavegen deliveres. As food is the energy source with th by far most brutal CO2 emissions per kWh, the CO2 emittet for each kWh of pavegen energy is far, far, far more than even the worst fossile fuel with lignite at 1100gr CO2/kWh. Food has to be seeded, watered or fed, kept free of organism that want to killl it, harvested, processed, cooled, stored, coocked at massive energy needs that do not add to the energy content, then cooled again and 25% of that is thrown away, as food's storade duration is abysmal.
The very best food CO2 wise is rice, at about 2200gr CO2/kWh, double of lignite. If you eat beef to regaain the energy lost for pavegen, that's more like 20000gr of CO2/kWh.
Lignite is burned at about 50% efficiency, and the heat created by that efficiency can be used afor district heating.
Compare that to pavegens 2300gr CO2/kWh input and 12,5% efficiency converting that to electricity, pavegen is the by far most climatekilling way of generating electricity by a magnitude.
Isn't it INSANE, how guessed cliemte friendlyness is wrong on so mayn feelgood-Project and basically you end up at the extreme opposit of what your emotions told you it would be if you do the math?
Thing is, many people in developed countries already eat TOO much. So instead of forcing people to consume more carbon heavy food, these energy-hungry walking paths could function as an way for people to burn even more unhealthy weight than during normal walking, while their difficulty could potentially be harnessed as trackable resistance training by athletes.
How long will these last before needing repair/replacement? What is the availability of parts, etc? How long will they last in a sandy/dirty environment?
looks great !
Does an app exists that shows the live values? like total steps or steps per day and city or sth
They have mentioned the "Citizen Earth App" but I cannot find it in the AppStore
I live in DC and just saw this in dupont the other day! I was wondering what it was
So one can meet friends in town just strolling and say "making money" when they ask "what are you doing here"? Pretty darn cool.
Who filmed this? The staging of the subjects is so odd and the camera angles are uncanny. Did you film the interviewer on a green screen? WTF is going on??
Brett Baker seriously! This looks so awkward for some reason.
I think they're both looking at teleprompters. they should at least look once! kinda looks like a staring game that has been reversed!
I was scrolling comments for this 😂
At first i thought as if they both are blind
Them not looking directly at each other is so off-putting. It just looks wrong. Not to mention inauthentic.
Having this idea in mind for 2 years. And now I found that someone else just executed a year before I was even thinking 🥴
Execution is important...be happy about it...
I have idea's very lucrative.
@@amgtowmonk2915 For me it's 4 years after implementation 😂😂😂,,,, just shows that your brain is at work
This is great.
I just had a thought on this idea! Steps for generating Power. Wow! I would like to see it work!
the military designed this year's ago, but hopefully it can work for all everyday use now!
Very good knowledge thanks
what is the rating of single cell? how much energy was generated by the pavement?
How does the energy we get out of it compare to the initial investment?
I feel like people would take one step on that surface and then decide to walk around it because it feels wobbly (also it is more strenuous to walk on/takes more energy). Also, how much energy are we talking about? How many kilowatt-hours per 1000 steps let’s say?
They never published any numbers. So they are really, really bad.
I was all for this until I heard retailers tracking pedestrian traffic
We already do this, just with other methods like cameras, motion sensors, heat sensors, phone location data, surveys and etc…
They need investment, and waste iot tech in such a nice system is vital for a yes or a no for funding
who cares!! a retailer, you pay for the experience. yes, I personally don't care either for the idea of monitoring, but it is a fantastic idea for energy sustainability!
dont connect it to your smart phone or dont bring your smart phone. prblem solved if people want to let people track them and get paid for it why not
where can i buy one of this?
So, the problem with putting these on roads is that the energy has to come from the fuel in the cars. Cars will burn fuel more efficiently on stiff, flat roads, but will lose efficiency the more elastic the road is. So, by putting elastic generators in the roads, you're taking the energy away from cars, making them less efficient. If you want to generate energy from commuting, put these in your shoes. You'll burn more calories than wearing regular shoes, and charge your phone at the same time.
well, I for one. am hoping for a more fuel efficient, electric. or solar or kinetic, car that would not have such a problem with 'wasted energy'.😉
What about solid tires?
@@Silverfi5h Solid tires are efficient, but the issue here isn't with the tires, it's with the road. The road needs to be as solid as possible for cars to drive efficiently. The most efficient way to drive would be with solid tires on a solid road. A good example of very efficient transportation is trains. They can travel at much higher efficiencies partly due to their solid metal wheels on solid metal rail roads.
Yeah and I think this vid made it clear that they are nowhere near finding a solution for that. The focus was pedestrians only at first.
Although I am curious what developments were made in the last 4 years...
@@Tbugfish exactly ! So why don´t we use this stuff on r a i l w a y s ? And there you have g r e a t p r e s s u r e too !
I'm pretty sure that if these were put on roads, the cars would waste the amount of energy they created just having to roll from the lowered price they were just on to the next peice, the energy is being taken from somewhere and it's either the energy were using to walk with making it an uncomfortable experience to walk or the energy used to drive with making driving less efficient
Plus the added wear on tires, plus the added microplastic emissions--this is definitely a losing proposition.
I came up with this idea and started searching on internet and found this company, now thinking why I didn't got the idea first.
This will be great in gyms for aerobic exercises, in bus stops and it can potentially turn school staircases into power mills.
A great alternative in places that have clouded skies frequently or long rainy seasons which could hamper solar energy generation.
excellent idea !
You do realise that this will increase the effort done by people and so people won't like it because they will get tired faster, right?
@@TheAllMightyGodofCod Look at the examples I mentioned carefully. All of it is instances where you'd naturally exert more force. You go to gyms for the purpose of exerting yourself. When you step up from ground to a bus and when you step down, you are exerting more force. Just like how you do in stairway. Besides people are not going to fly up into a bus or staircase just because this will tire them a bit more
@@aleenaprasannan2146 if you don't get this EXTREMELY obvious question, there is no point in discussing it with you.
Have a nice day!
@@TheAllMightyGodofCod The problem is that you actually don't seem to realize the difference in biomechanics of walking on a plain surface and climbing steps and assuming the 'getting tired faster' part in level ground to those of steps. When you step down from a step to this tile, you will not be exerting more force. You will only be transmitting the natural force from your weight on to the tile, as the direction of force is the same as the direction of gravity. You exert yourself when your movement is not in the same direction as gravity, which is why walking on this tile in level surface needs more effort.
While step up platforms for aerobic exercises, stairways, of just getting on a bus with this tile is not going to need anymore effort at all than without it. Why? Because the tiles' movement is along the same plain are those movements and gravity. So instead of being condescending, if you don't understand how this tile would feel for different movements, brush up on the fundamentals of mechanics. It's really just very rudimentary physics
Hi! we found your project very innovative and unique, especially it deals with the conservation of energy in our modern world. As a researcher and a student taking aviation studies from PATTS College of Aeronautics in the Philippines, we would like to ask a permission to use this video in our research as we seek to know its potential in our country specifically the Ninoy Aquino International Airport or the Manila International Airport to sustain a specific airport operation/s. research title is "The potential of pavegen tiles to Ninoy Aquino International Airport towards a more sustainable airport operations". your reply will be very much appreciated! Thank you!
hii sir
you make this project
I had this idea 10 years ago... goddamnit
What is the impact rating for these items? Can a car drive on it or a truck.
This needs to be in London.
seems interesting, makes me wonder what the $/watt over its lifetime is and how many rare earth materials are required to build them. if it's cheap to build, let's just cover entire buildings with them across all pedestrian walkways. isles, check-out lines, sidewalks.
If it's expensive, let's bribe the company who made this to make their findings public and put a bounty for whoever can make it the most cost effective in 15 years gets 50M USD or something.
If we take into consideration that slightly annoying problem that energy doesn't come "out of nowhere" we will soon realise what a waste of materials this is.
I love would it. this is a genius tech . We can save the world with like this improvements
Minimum weight of person to press Pavegen tiles ?
can’t you just make a gear system to press it or a machine that presses it then resets then repeats the process? Like I could envision rube gold berg type machines repeatedly pressing it
this is really an interesting innovation
if you´d replace every sidewalkwith this, connect it to a Battery that saves the generated energy. you could use said energy to light the sidewalks at night. this would save so much energy(cost) then make it mandatory for every goverment building to have solar panels
I'm sorry I'm taking the liberty to intrude for something that's not directly related, this is the only way though to find something that can't find as easily as I thought one could : Are piezoelectric materials 'energized' by way of hydrostatic pressure (changes) of any liquid, off course, but mainly water. Thank you.
how many steps does it needed to generate its power? Thank you!
10 watt for per footstep
what happen during rainy season...Is this durable
Im just curious, but how is this technology safe to walk on ? I mean, if i walk on top of that, it moves a few milimeters-centimeters in different of height. how did they solve this problem ?
they won't. it's the fundamental working principle
Good technology and revolution in the energy sector, just wondering why the don'ts aren't been discussed. Measures to earthquakes, lightnings, thunders???
Great disruptive technology. Toward energy abundance!
Where are you looking?
Could this same technology be used on an electric skateboard?
Great
How to store this current Puls in battery
what is return on investment time?
heck ya !!
Hi everybody! I'm an engineering student and i have a doubt: What happens if you stay on a tile for a long time? Is it possible that it get ruined?
I dont think so. check out the specs on the shoes they made, its essentially the same thing. I guess it depends on the quality of materials u use for holding the chemical reaction. and if shoes were designed for long term military use and abuse. I don't think civilians merely standing for a while would ruin it.
Can they even recover the amount of energy it is put into making and installing them.
This was the first question that jumped into my mind when i watched the video.
Good Question!
Long term, probably. Imagine powering a whole stadium with these things
Definitely, 20s of light with one single foot step...
z0ny it’s an LED strip though, very little energy required, and the video showed that it is not on for 20 seconds. Also, I would imagine that there’s more energy going into these then people imagine, from breaking up whatever surface these are replacing to running cables etc. not only that, these may or may not wear out over time, and considering what piezoelectricity is I lean towards the former, not the latter, meaning that these will need to be replaced possibly many times.
Put this on sidewalks and other places where people usually go for walks. But on the road might cost problems including maintenance and issues with automotive vehicles.
can anyone tell whats that instrument which wen pressed produces electricity
It may be a Piezoelectricity , or a copper coil , magnet , and spring system ...
This video reminds me of that one episode from Rick and Morty. where Rick's flying saucer car battery died so he had to go into his car battery to travel into another universe where he had entire civilization enslave with a kinetic stepping pad device called the
(goobleboxes) where these people just stepped on these pads to generate kinetic energy just to power Rick's Car.
what if we're in a car battery?
Here's the video if you don't know what I'm talking about. th-cam.com/video/F4OOw22hKR4/w-d-xo.html
I was going to say something like that. A lot of Rick and Morty episodes ask those "What if?" questions. Nihilism is definitely a major theme of the show. If that was the case though, our perceived 100% power efficiency would likely be only 95%-10% efficient.
This could have a large market in my country...how can I contact you!?
How much does the single cell costs?
Genius
just put it in a disco!! that would be amazing.
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago I saw three technologies related to renewables on Discovery Channel, one of them The dish looked like a umbrella which used to give electricity for a whole day to a big company in 1 hour. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Bigfoot approoves :p Good Idea for Public Walking areas.
Is it's robust ?
how it is work
Make plates covered with alum strip cover to transfer more weight evenly across pads and stop them from ripping off... You can also design a longer shaft thats pinned to bottom so top cant come off... But strips at 35 40 mile an hr speeds optimal.. Plus rail road ties... You guys have the guts and many uses... Make current design bullet proff and using common materials so its not hard to mass produce...
I love watching these types of videos and reading comments. You guys have no idea what you are talking about, but everyone is hyped and act as an expert on the topic. 😂
@@ShitThatsMyncompletely agree. You only need a 7th grande understanding of physics and conservation of energy to realise that you will end with a net loss of energy and that these materials would produce much more energy if used in other stuff.
I will like to have more information about this project in order to used in school in Latin America School to genere the energy that the need.
Cover a busy highway with these and you got profit.
Yes, you can power a single lamp with all that power
@@yalkn2073 Well that's something too.
I am pretty sure it is more than that. You need to see the video by Jun Fu Clean Energy Co.,Ltd.
@@mubashirakhtar789 And I am pretty sure manufacturing and maintenance cost would far outweigh its energy output
@@yalkn2073 Not really, if you put it on one highway you could probably power half the state with the amount of daily traffic. Hell in high traffic areas, we are talking millions of joules of power just waiting to be tapped.
Creative...
This can be used for good and for bad. If it is used in public for specific projects in a closed loop its perfect! But as soon its given to the net and hey still charge you money they can charge big numbers for public generated energy. That’s like charging people double
I am working on it can anyone give the idea
Ultimately, I guess it shouldn't be tiles, but a soft ground that equalizes the force feedback, so people won't slip.
Otherwise, if Thunderf00t hasn't made a "BUSTED" video on this, it's probably viable ;)
Well, it's not perpetual energy, it's more like a pressure plate, which can send an electric impulse to a battery which can store the charge, it's good efficient clean energy, imagine putting these in Manhattan. With how many people walk in NYC we could probably power a lot of the state and or east coast
they should put these on London underground
I remember reading about this 20 years ago in a Scrooge McDuck cartoon.
Cool
I need this to power my street. From where can I get it ??
You buy it from the store
How to make it in mini size to represent as project
Interesting but I wonder if this'll ever really catch on
Imagine putting this in Mecca where people walk around the Kaaba
Why are they looking at each other's shoulders and not in their eyes...
Can u just let me know how can we save the enegry in batteries i need to implement this technology
So it's like Gooble boxes from Rick and Morty were in microverse are we
From it energy storage possible
now is three years later
Can’t you also do that with running shoes?
LOVE This! A question though, if this were to be used on roadways, wouldn't the "inch or two" of downward forge every microsecond weat vehicles shocks a teeny bit, and potentially fuel economy? Has a whiff of "perpetual motion" methinks. With pedestrians, NP the cushioning would be nice, But vehicles?
Yes, you're right. You are simply lowering the efficiency of the vehicle and getting electricity from the petrol. You don't get the enegy for free, unless it is used in very niche situations where every car is braking anyway and you are simply using this to help them slow down.
On a normal stretch of road, this technology would cause the car to use more petrol: it is not getting something for nothing.
imagine you put this on on market
Does solar power work more efficiently?
Imagine our side walks and roads with this kind of technology
Maybe later, busy just now
You wouldn't want this on the road
@@The_Quaalude Two years later i know why. just imagine if a whole bunch of these break no bueno
@@StormCat539YT well this is just taking energy from your car
People gonna start going missing when that app comes out 👀
pavegen price ????
there are people who steals sidewalk stones. I don't think these things would see a week on streets. But malls and air ports is a great idea.
Why is he not looking at the person?
The positivity among the Techcrunch viewers seems to indicate that the majority of visitors here has a lack of engineering skills.
check out the review on energy actually generated. www.imeche.org/news/news-article/pavegen-kinetic-technology-powers-christmas-lights
somethings just don´t add up
Yup, thats me. None of it and i was wondering if you could tell me how clean this is on a scale of solar to fucking coal lol would love to feel optomistic about this but Im fond of my reservations
Could this be used for canon sequestration? 🤔
#climatechange #carbon #sequestration
Can be applied to staircases
ibm already has this on their list for IBM Smart global list on future innovations...but will see who will be the first to implement and get it success...
It would be really great for your tech to be adapted to fabricating and manufacturing buildings where the positioning and placement of pelleted materials and heavy items are shuffled around the plant floor during the workday. Your tech may be adapted to accommodate longer vertical travel of its mechanism (or by layering your exist tech in some fashion), to harvest energy from larger and heavier loads being placed on the surface and storing the energy or on-demand use of energy. Just the weight of one vehicle at rest when it is parked could utilize gravity to harvest energy during the compression of your tech as the front or rear or whole car lowers to the ground(or sinks slightly below ground surface, but still navigably easy to drive out of.
Do you realise that if you do that you will need to use MORE energy to move the pellets and that you will NEVER get as much energy as you used and so, you only increased the amount of energy wasted. Right?
This is 7th grade physics....
I feel this guy has a severe issue with communications. He never look the interviewer in the eyes.
He's reading off a TelePrompTer or cue card......at least I hope he is.
Thats why his brain cycles are spent in such crazy ambitious ideas,
before making judgments did you consider the possibility he might be suffering from a sight eye problem. you should judge a person by their actions. in today society its easy to bullsh*t. people still believe 9/11 was caused by a man living in a cave.
The interviewer and the guy were filmed separately and then edited together. If you look carefully at the interviewer you'll see he isn't looking directly at the guy either.
Thanks for this- they filmed it this way, neither of us were looking directly at each other.
Some dude is gonna piss on it
i am doing this project for my final semester, how effective will be this project for modern engineers
from my coursework calculation, it is not worth the capital cost
Me too but I haven't started yet. Do you know if there is an app or sth to get live values? like how many steps/energy in total?
@@03019a like how much capital cost required to build like these?
@@contemplator1993 £80 per square foot, and it can generate 7W per step
@@03019a 80 pound is heavy.
Part names
Great solution.
Sole of a shoe? Sketchers?
Rick and Morty episode miniverse🤣🤣
If only you could use this technology to fix your eye contact