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I guess I should have done more research. I checked the website KinergyPowerUSAinc submitted by subodhgarud, and this is already being done. If we are serious about alternatives, this needs to move forward.

Rkonrad

My gosh

I'm sorry, this is my first post on this website, but I can't help but comment. The reason I found this site is that just last night, I thought of an idea to harness the wind from passing cars on a highway. I'm not making this up for the sake of this thread - I got online and found your topic here, and I can't believe it. It's pretty close to what I was thinking too, only with fluid.

I also considered that perhaps something like this would rob cars of energy, true only a very small amount, but still an amount, and drivers would no doubt not be happy about that.

The idea of using vehicles involved in braking is a good one, I mean they're already going to lose that energy anyway. You'd actually be helping them by decreasing the wear on their brakes. (Never mind possible work by the suspension).

I like it... a lot. Thanks for posting this.

-Josh

Hi. I am new to this forum. I was googling for energy from highways and i saw your post. I was also thinking about the same thing but slightly differently. My idea is to use small cylinders embedded in the roads on toll plazas and sideways. the cylinders would have high friction surfaces so that when a vehicle drives by, it rotates the cylinder and that in turn rotate the generator. this way vehicles which need to stop can generate energy that would have been wasted as heat in breakes.

Please comment on my idea. I really look forward for your comments.
thank you.

OSAMA GHANI

I'll preface this by admitting (ie warning) that I have no education or experience in what I am going to ask about/suggest. But please indulge the thought and educate me as appropriate. I appreciate the above discussion as I have also considered moving road traffic to be a highly disregarded opportunity for several years, and all those sensors at traffic-light intersections made me wonder if a subsurface generator would be possible. I hadn't thought about the windmills. And I sort-of assumed that the logical place for such pressure plates was at toll-booths/exit ramps, etc. And I am also curious about another concept:

is there any merit and is the technology adaptable in light-sensors which would be excited by moving vehicles? Obviously any power generated would be miniscule, however considering that thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cars pass a given point daily on most metropolitan major roads & highways, wouldn't a passive system like that be able to recapture enough energy to power a street light or two? Not as a one-stop-shop to all energy problems, but a small contributor?

Thanks for any insight the experts may provide.

I acknowledge that my thoughts may be no wiser than your typical kitchen table's thoughts...

Aieeejo

Nation's highways could provide free energy.