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Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass

Posted by Zonk on from the rolling-rolling-rolling dept.

Ant wrote to mention a BBC News report on a ramp that generates power via passing cars. From the article: "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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  1. Thanks by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thanks for being so profoundly stupid that you didn't even bother to click the article, let alone read it. The ramps are about three inches high. The up and down involved here isn't really of the magnitude you're thinking of.