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September 12, 2014

Brazilian soccer field's lights are kid-powered

  • 200 energy-capturing tiles under the turf act like generators when they get stepped on, powering the floodlights overhead.
    • By JENNY BARCHFIELD
    Associated Press

    RIO DE JANEIRO — Kids streaking back and forth on a soccer field in scorching tropical heat promises to produce something more than buckets of sweat.

    Billed as Brazil's first player-powered soccer pitch, a field inaugurated Wednesday in a Rio de Janeiro slum harnesses the kinetic energy of players' movements to provide nighttime illumination.


     
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