Talk about people power: Check out this post on Mental Floss. A snip:

What’s better than green power? People power, say some forward-thinking engineers. Daily movements like footsteps generate pressure as we walk, and though that vibratory energy may be fairly low-wattage (about eight, to be exact), when you take the aggregate energy expenditure of, say, 30,000 people moving through a crowded train station, that’s a significant amount of power.

While it goes on to talk about how one firm has designed just such a harvester, and that its “energy-harvesting “Pacesetter” staircase will appear in South London tube stations sometime in 2007,” can you imagine a self-powering convention center or hotel? This could be amazing if it actually works as well as it sounds on paper. Wow.

I’ll be on vacation the next couple of weeks, sailing the deep blue Caribbean sea, so please be patient if it takes a while for my colleague to get to approving comments! I have lined up some posts, mostly pointing to some of my favorite Web sites, so you won’t even know I’m gone! Until January 15, be well and have fun.