Your point is true, if we were to replace all the asphalt roads with a new form of road. I suspect the energy and material requirements for making an energy-ca

Your point is true, if we were to replace all the asphalt roads with a new form of road. I suspect the energy and material requirements for making an energy-capturing dampening system that feels similar to asphalt to the vehicles overhead would far outweigh the benefits (I'm picturing some sort of electrolyte putty with thousands of wire leads every meter, funneling microamps of energy into a the heavier wire in a conduit underneath).