Чикелла, Антонио, профессор Болонского университета, координатор международного сотрудничества Департамента Исследований Качества Жизни «Human power and energy harvesting»

The need to reduce pollution and carbon dioxide emission worldwide, can be obtained only with the summation of many sources of energy, producing low power in comparison to traditional energy sources. In specific situations, such as in sport, there is a voluntary production of energy that usually gets lost. Operating a large-scale change in sport facilities and sport gears design, can help the harvesting of some of this dissipated energy, using several different available technologies. Sport is in some ways an energy dissipator itself, trough the increase in food consumption. Developing energy harvester can thus be beneficial non only for health, but also for the environment, and can help the sustainability of power usage.