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Pele Inaugurates Innovative Green Soccer Field in Rio Favela
Pele took part here in the inauguration of a soccer facility that features a lighting system partly powered by the players’ movement on the field.
A total of 200 underground tiles situated in 10 rows – five on each side of the pitch – gather the players’ kinetic energy as they run and feed that power to six 280-watt LED floodlights at the field, located in the Rio de Janeiro slum of Morro da Mineira.
That system provides 20 percent of the electricity for the lights, while the remaining 80 percent comes from solar panels set up at the facility.
“Our attention is now focused on what we’ve set up here but who knows if in a few years this could be installed in shoes and used to charge a mobile phone,” the head of the project, Britain’s Laurence Kemball-Cook, said.
The 73-year-old Pele, whose birth name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, said he is hopeful this technology will inspire many Brazilian young people to take up an interest in science.
The Brazilian soccer legend became emotional at the press conference recalling that his late father named him after American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, adding that he felt “honored to get back to work” for Brazil by taking part in the inauguration and motivating young people.
The field where the system was inaugurated is a popular soccer facility that had fallen into disrepair prior to the renovation effort.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/pele-inaugurates-innovative-green-soccer-field-in-rio-favela/31125#When:14:07:18Z
