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This interesting company has innovative and interesting piezoelectric generation systems from roads, railways and pedestrian paths. It provides solutions to harvesting wasted energy and transforming it into useable green energy that can either be used on site or exported into a national grid. The company is based in Israel and has attracted a lot of attention to the possible ways in which this technology can be used and incorporated into our modern living. As you can see from the below videos the simple ways in which this technology has been adapted has the capability of producing massive amounts of energy and could easily replace many of our aging power station fleet with clean reliable green energy helping achieve the targets of the new low carbon economy.

The detailed videos below show exactly how the systems are incorporated into the environment and how the energy is generated.  For further information on this company and the technology they offer please visit the official website http://www.innowattech.co.il/index.aspx

Nokia have released details of a prototype phone which uses ambient energy harvesting as a means to charge the internal battery. Ambient energy is emitted by mobile phone signals and towers, radio signals and many other forms of communication devises which use wireless technology. This energy is gathered by the phone and turned into electricity to charge the battery. In order t achieve the ability to permanently charge the battery the phone must gather 50mw of energy from the various signals available. Ambient energy is nothing new and has been available for many years; a prime example of this would be the crystal radio available via our online shop for £19.99.  If Nokia succeed in the creation of this phone which achieves the ability to self charge itself the world could see a new breed of mobile which would never need an external power supply saving energy and CO2 the world over.