Sunday, December 18, 2005

Easy power generation

It’s always interesting to hear of new innovative ideas that use simple things in day-to-day living:

Ramp creates power as cars pass

From the article:

A road ramp that uses passing cars to generate power has been developed.

Dorset inventor Peter Hughes' Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp creates around 10kW of power each time a car drives over its metal plates.

More than 200 local authorities had expressed an interest in ordering the £25,000 ramps to power their traffic lights and road signs, Mr Hughes said.

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