JR (Japan Rail) is currently experimenting at the Tokyo station, where 760,000 people take their trains or metros daily, a system to generate free electricity for their everyday usage! Each time a client goes thru the gates, he or she walks on a metal plate and the resulting vibrations generate electricity. This seems like a brilliant idea, but we have to give JR this month’s STUPID award..! Well done Japan Rail, this is the first time we give such an award…

Why is this a stupid concept? After putting these plates all over the station, they managed to produce enough electricity to power a 100W light bulb for 10 to 15mn per day, even with 760,000 people walking on these plates… So, well done! This project must have cost a fortune and the result is close to nil. With such miraculous technological advances, we’re still far from saving this planet…