As simple as it is ingenious. Fluxxlab, a New Your based studio, decided to tell us how blind we all are to the most obvious solutions sometimes.
In an attempt to have malls, offices and other public buildings consume less energy–or at least reduce the need to import energy from the external power grid, saving the money and the environment–they had the revolutionary idea to use the revolving doors as generators. Their “Revolution Door“is quite simply a generator, Powered By the People–Oh my god, it’s full of puns–as they push it around.
Used wisely, meaning wherever possible, and wired into the buildings power grid, anyone passing through will generate some electricity that will be directly fed to the building itself. Every revolution will generate a current, however small, that will directly reduce the amount of power needed from external, expensive and potentially harmful, sources.
You can’t have a Revolution unless it’s powered by the people. 