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Train Track Power Plants

The T-Box Harnesses Wind Energy from Speeding Trains

— March 24, 2011 — Autos
If you have time to see only one conceptual wind turbine today, make it the T-Box. The 2010 Lite-On Award-winning T-Box is a wind turbine designed by Qian Jiang & Ale Leonetti Luparini that harnesses the wind power of passing trains and converts it into electricity.

The T-Box is a small wind turbine designed to replace the wooden supports in the middle of existing train tracks. With the T-Box in place, an entire train's trip could potentially be powered by its own wind energy. What makes the T-Box such a good concept is its practical design. The T-Box would require almost no new infrastructure to be created and could start pumping out eco-friendly power as soon as it's laid down.
Trend Themes
1. Renewable Energy Generation - The T-Box harnesses wind energy from speeding trains, offering a disruptive innovation opportunity for renewable energy generation.
2. Sustainable Transportation - Replacing wooden supports in train tracks with T-Box turbines paves the way for sustainable transportation and energy-efficient travel.
3. Innovative Infrastructure - The practical design of the T-Box demonstrates an opportunity for disruptive innovation in creating eco-friendly power infrastructure without the need for major new investments.
Industry Implications
1. Renewable Energy - The T-Box wind turbine concept presents a disruptive innovation opportunity for the renewable energy industry to harness wind energy from trains.
2. Transportation - The adoption of T-Box turbines on train tracks can disrupt the transportation industry by enabling sustainable power generation while reducing reliance on traditional energy sources.
3. Infrastructure - Implementing T-Box wind turbines in existing train tracks creates a potential disruption in the infrastructure sector by providing eco-friendly power generation without major infrastructure changes.
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