Another innovative initiative that came up yesterday. The supermarket chain Sainsbury’s will set up an experimental system in one of their branches in Gloucester wereby their tills and refrigeration cabinets will be powered using energy generated by a device powered by shoppers’ cars driven over it. The cars create a rocking motion in the device which could generate up to 30KW per hour according to Sainsbury’s.

While there is some question over the greenness of this initiative, it still relies on cars after all, it’s a step in the right direction for supermarkets to be more self sufficient in generating their own energy. Hopefully more ideas like this will be developped by other chains to reduce energy emissions and be more efficient.

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