Two designers created an innovative product which is planned to capture displaced wind from passing trains or subways and convert it into electricity.
The project was designed by Qian Jiang and Alessandro Leonetti Luparini and was awarded a silver medal at the 2010 Lite-on awards exhibited in Taiwan. The T-box, this is the name of this innovative device, would be installed between railway sleepers, and would harness the wind of passing trains to generate electricity. According to the designers' estimation, around 150 of these devices could be installed along a kilometer of track and as trains speed along, the turbines inside the device would generate electricity. Once in place, a T-box facility might even feed electricity to recharging stations for electric cars.

Some minor technical problems regarding the maintenance of this technology still need to be solved. It is however a very innovative concept with huge potential for further development: let us just consider the busy sections of expressways and their unending supply of wind-producing vehicles traveling at high speeds as sources for wind collection.

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