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Enlil: Wind turbine designed to harvest energy from passing vehicles
- daVe23hu 4y agocould use a safer method.... meaning accidents to close proximity passing vehicles with wind turbine blades... I see lawsuits how about piezoelectric cells that utilize the passing weight differentials in the road bed ---- load/unload/load/unload etc.... these cells work on the principle of alternating mechanical stress....
- Oxidation 4y agoOr just burn the fuel directly in a CHP plant and don't do it in an inefficient system using an engine and a very complicated indirect mechanical coupling via the roadbed. Doubly so for electric cars. Imagine the losses in generating power, distributing it, charging a battery, running a motor, moving road or air, catching a few fractions in a turbine, generating electricity again and then transmitting that. All these schemes are a cross between a Homer Simpson plan, Wile E. Coyote, Rube Goldberg and Troll Physics memes, angling for some greenwashing overspray capital(....)
- Someone 4y agoSo, it takes energy out of the wind induced by driving cars. I think that must mean that it slows down that wind, decreasing the benefit other cars have driving in the wake of other cars. I think the net effect will still be positive (especially on roads with traffic in two directions close to each other), but still, the energy has to come from somewhere, and I don’t think _all_ of it comes from wind that wouldn’t help other cars driving along the same path. So, what’s the effect on energy usage of the cars?
- isthispermanent 4y agoHow much energy can one of these things generate in a year?
- tromp 4y agoVideo says it generates approximately 1KW/h. I guess they mean 1KWh/h. Which is a dumb way to say it generates 1KW...
- dredmorbius 4y agoSources which confuse basic measures of energy generation / capture ... tend also to make other very fundamental mistakes. I'd strongly question any claims based on this and the basic underlying concept. All the more so as the website has no technical information.