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Environment & Energy

hunter

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3. Um, what?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:28 AM

Sep 2016

That would increase the rolling resistance of the road surface and make vehicles use MORE energy!

The only possible use I can see for this technology is to power road sensors and the like.

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California eyes unusual power source: its gridlocked roads (xpost from CA group) [View all] KamaAina Sep 2016 OP

Good thinking. ColemanMaskell Sep 2016 #1

A good place to start: the weigh stations that are on every major highway KamaAina Sep 2016 #2

Um, what? hunter Sep 2016 #3

Exactly. This looks like junk science/engineering. cprise Sep 2016 #4

Yeah, this is pretty bad. drm604 Oct 2016 #6

Highway Robbery: Piezoelectric Roadways cprise Sep 2016 #5

Are asphalt roads highway robbery? kristopher Oct 2016 #7

But Innowattech has gone into liquidation muriel_volestrangler Oct 2016 #8

Apples and oranges kristopher Oct 2016 #9