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World's First Player-Powered Field Opened In Brazil By British Tech Company Pavegen

British technology company Pavegen "teamed up with Royal Dutch Shell to open Brazil's first player-powered" football field, according to Kristina Bravo of TAKE PART. The project’s ambassador, Pelé, on Wednesday "appeared at the inauguration, where a local youth team put the pitch to the test." Beneath a layer of AstroTurf, 200 tiles "capture and store the energy generated by the players' movements." The tiles work with solar panels to "power the floodlights that illuminate the stadium at night." Each tile costs around $500, "but they might get cheaper as the company fine-tunes production." The player-powered stadium, the company's first football field project, "is in Morro da Mineira, a favela, or slum, in Rio." Pavegen CEO & Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook said, "We've effectively turned this community into a real-life science experiment. I believe this technology can be one of the future ways we illuminate cities." Pelé said during the ceremony, "Football is Brazil's biggest passion, and the sport has gone through so much technological innovation since the last time I played. This new pitch shows the extraordinary things possible when science and sport come together" (TAKE PART, 9/13).

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