Harnessing Personal Movement for Power in Rural Africa

Dr. Cedrick Ngalande has announced a new project called Green Erg, which harnesses (literally) a person’s movement energy to create electricity.

Designed to work perfectly on all types of road, ground or floor conditons. Will generate power when attached to a person walking or to a moving skating board, bike, ox-cart, farm animal...

"At normal walking speeds we have gotten more than 2 watts which is more than enough for running cell phones or radios."

[via Afrigadget]

emily | 8:08 PM | Mobile phone projects - Third World |
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