Kinetic Energy

[ProfessorDoxus]

I've always had an idea at the back of my mind, for harvesting an untapped resource; Kinetic energy.

 

Lately, I have had ideas on how to do it. Not ACTUAL ideas, since I'm in middle school, but more like an idea of the location of this resource, the Freeway.

 

So, I searched up on devices that could harvest Kinetic energy, and I found this; http://www.perpetuum.com/tech.asp

 

If possible, do you think this could be placed under roads and freeways? Please post opinions below.

[swansont]

The product you link to is for an extremely low-power application. Harvesting vibrations is pretty inefficient.

 

Harvesting from the freeway means you are inefficiently taking energy from cars, which means you make them burn more gasoline in order to produce a small amount of electricity. You take a little energy, the car slows down a little, so the diver has to step on the gas to speed back up. Unless the cars were going to slow down anyway, like on an exit ramp or pulling up to a stop sign, it's a net waste of energy. And if you do it that way but the car is a hybrid or an electric car with regenerative brakes, then you're taking energy that the car was going try and harvest.

[bablunicky]

that is a good idea anyway.. recently volkswagen has introduced Blue motion technology in their model Passat..in which electric energy is produced from vibrations..that is harnessing energy from suspension system..

[swansont]

that is a good idea anyway.. recently volkswagen has introduced Blue motion technology in their model Passat..in which electric energy is produced from vibrations..that is harnessing energy from suspension system..

 

That's viable because you're harnessing waste energy.