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Letter: For the record

Published 24 August 2002

• As several readers have pointed out, we used the wrong units in an example in “Juice on the loose” (3 August, p 36). Instead of producing 2 kilowatts of power, calculations by Gary Henderson of Gravitational Systems show that a pedestrian walking over 300 pumps laid into the ground along the length of Macy’s department store in Manhattan could produce 2 kilojoules of energy.

Issue no. 2357 published 24 August 2002

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