Thought this was pretty dope. Wonder what other cool ways people are generating power without fossil fuels.
I greet it with deep skepticism. 1, the amount of power being generated is so trivially small that I don't see it justifying the expense (particularly the significant materials expense) of the installation, which looks as though it contains considerable amounts of (presumably petrochemical-derived) plastic. 2, they tipped their hand as to the real purpose of their technology when they talked about it tracking mobile devices, "knowing who you are." Were this ubiquitous, it'd be yet another avenue of the panopticon, tracking each individual literally step-by-step as they walked around the city. They talk about heat-mapping traffic, but there are plenty of techniques for doing that already that don't involve ripping up pavement Knowing the individual movements of people as they walk around, even if they have wi-fi, location accuracy, and Find My Device turned off on their phones? Now THAT's a way to get advertiser money. 3, paying you for the amount of power that your footsteps generate? LOL, for most people that'd likely be a matter of cents in a year at market electricity rates, compared to the few dollars they get in tracking money for you having their app installed.