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Smartly designed playgrounds could produce renewable energy

Keep skipping rope Mary. Daddy needs to charge his phone.

All joking aside, it is a clever idea.

They could have made a lot of power off the old merry-go-round of my youth.

This is nothing new. It has been implemented in African villages as a way to provide electricity in locations that needed it. It started out with much fanfare, but now the merry go rounds just sit in the playgrounds abandoned. Once the novelty wears off, the need for day to day activities takes over and the playtime never really happens. Good concept but a failed lesson in practical usage.

Source? As a teacher, I know a lotttt of kids who really like playgrounds. Who am I kidding? If it fails in Africa, it will fail everywhere. Then again, maybe it's the merry-go-round that's a failed/obsolete concept?

I was wondering if you could tell me where you got this information from? I'm currently researching these merry-go-round generators to see if they'd be a viable option for a group I'm working with.

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