Eco Factor: Helmets equipped with wind turbines to power a two-wheeler’s lights.
A team of students at Cheng Shiu University have developed a new helmet that generates wind electricity to power two-wheeler’s headlights, tail lights and direction indicator lights. Equipped with a set of five small wind turbines, the helmet starts generating electricity when the bike is in motion.
The harnessed wind energy is then stored in a set of four batteries that are embedded into the helmet, which transmit the electrical power to the two-wheeler’s lights. The students believe that the electronics that would help generating electrical power would not cost more than $30 dollars, which does not include the cost of the helmet. The team is now trying to improve the concept with much smaller wind turbines and batteries that should reduce the weight of the helmet.
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