Power building people! This is the kind of thing that I think we should see everywhere. Why is this not more prevelant?! At a building in the Netherlands, a new door was installed, which rotates are harvests the energy that it produces. People are going to be pushing the door open all day regardless, this just allows energy to be saved. It was designed by RAU (a designer who’s site I was unable to read, as it was in another language). This supposedly is the first take on this concept. It reminds me of those commercials in which a company says “we power this plant with windmills… and here, we harvest energy from…”. The article that I read speaks about “opening more doors” in order to deal with the issue of global warming… but why are we not seeing every design becoming more like this, just for the sake of saving money on our energy bills. This is super clever.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/12/10/energy-generating-revolving-door-by-boon-edam/