Environment & Energy

kristopher

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7. Are asphalt roads highway robbery?

Tue Oct 4, 2016, 01:12 AM

Oct 2016

Roads compress and flex as a matter of routine, don't they? So wouldn't you say that short of a careful study proving a significant change in in the road's structural rigidity - one that would negatively affect the economics of driving a car - that the idea on it's face is (if not a game changer) valid and potentially exploitable as one tiny wedge of the move away from carbon?

These might inform the issue a bit:
Special Issue of International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)
International Conference on Electronic Design and Signal Processing (ICEDSP) 2012
Energy Harvesting using Piezoelectric Materials
http://research.ijcaonline.org/icedsp/number4/icedsp1037.pdf

Piezo-Smart Roads
Priyanshu Kumar
Electronics Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh, India
http://www.erpublications.com/uploaded_files/download/download_08_07_2013_08_37_20.pdf

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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