Flotspotting: Jiang Qian’s T-Box Turns High-Speed Trains into Electricity Generators

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It’s no secret that China will one day be crisscrossed with high-speed trains, and Shanghai-based designer Jiang Qian has a simple but brilliant idea to increase their efficacy.

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Qian’s T-Box concept would nest helical turbines between railroad ties. As high-speed trains whip past, the hurricane-like winds produced beneath them would rotate the turbines, generating clean juice.

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