Possibly making its way into buildings in the future, Fluxxlab studio has developed a creative way to capture wasted human energy. You might be asking yourself, what? And how so? Their Revolution Door is claimed to capture otherwise wasted energy from revolving doors seen usually at large buildings.
The technology can be used with new and existing revolving doors. To harness the wasted energy, three parts are utilized in the revolving door: a mechanical/electrical system to harness human energy and redistributes electricity to an output and an output device that maps the harnessed energy. By harvesting the small amount of human energy via mechanical means and converting it to a “tangible” display via a generator, the revolving door will “directly communicate a single person’s contribution to an energy cycle possible through the metabolic relationship between people, technology, and architecture”, per Fluxxlab’s website. Since revolving doors are usually frequently in use, the captured kinetic energy could provide quite a bit of free electricity.
Fluxlab is a New York-based design company which specializes in novel ideas to harvest sustainable energy. They have already received funding from the Eyebeam art and technology center and support from the New York University sustainability fund.
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