Well the “genius’s” at MIT have came up with another “Idea” on sustainable energy. They want to harness your energy and create power. You are probably wondering how in the world they got Captain Planet to sign on to this project, since to this day he is the only one being that I know of that can harness the power of others. But no, no, the high top fade superhero is not helping out on this one.

Here is how they want to do it.

“A Crowd Farm in Boston’s South Station railway terminal would work like this: A responsive sub-flooring system made up of blocks that depress slightly under the force of human steps would be installed beneath the station’s main lobby. The slippage of the blocks against one another as people walked would generate power through the principle of the dynamo, a device that converts the energy of motion into that of an electric current.” Huh?

I’m not the smartest bloak in the pub but what they are saying they want to do is lay down squishy mats that you walk on that create friction through IC’s and are centrally connected to one hub, thus creating a electrical current that can be moderated through a power station and delegated through the central hub. Seems like a good idea. But lets break it the whole human power element down. According to Graham and Jusczy the MIT students that developed this idea says, a single human step can only power two 60W light bulbs for one flickering second. But get a crowd in motion, multiply that single step by 28,527 steps, for example, and the result is enough energy to power a moving train for one second. So whenever the Stones roll into town will be the day our trains will run on time??

I know I am going a bit overboard and being overly sarcastic in my judgement, but honestly I really enjoy these types of “Ideas”, but the thing that really gets under my skin are guys like these two. They likely are in the higher echelon for IQ, and they come up with ideas that most likely will never happen in our lifespan. Why not convert all that energy and time into something we can use today. The whole plan they have is great, getting people to generate power, getting people out and about, its all great.

But I am so tired of people coming up with ideas for sustainable energy that could never be adapted in out lifetime. The only way for any of us to see this in our country or really any country would have to start with the politicians, we would have to abolish them. 2nd, corporations would have to stop being greedy, and so many people would go against the grain, not for any reason just because.

I commend them on the cool idea, but now take your ideas and transform them to something we can use today.