Sunday, October 23, 2011

Highway turbulence wasted?

http://green.autoblog.com/2007/05/01/highway-wind-turbines-to-capture-energy-from-passing-vehicles/

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                Harvesting Highway Turbulence and the Opportunity to Conserve


“By acting now, future generations may be more apt to applaud our efforts to shape an innovative and secure energy economy than to criticize our unwillingness to change.”

                                                       Joshua Prok, Interstate Wind: Using New Technology to Enhance 2008

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Smart interstate highway infrastructure. Are we putting provisions into our roads and highways that could support our (common wealth) basic needs? Provide jobs locally? Where future nano tech /micro generators can harvest highway turbulence (Parasitic Catalyst) and generate electricity on-demand to neighborhoods where they serve now and in the future?


If we take the bad with the good, does that mean when residents tolerate the drone of traffic, they can take satisfaction knowing that same buzz is responsible for a sizable offset on their electrical bill? Or communities reap big benefits in leasing out these distributed-dynamos to large conglomerates in congested metropolitan areas. Not to mention the impact telemetry and web-centric services embedded into roads would have in preparing for disasters or support emergency communications in times of crisis? 

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