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Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass
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."
That's not even the bad part. Those damn government bastards have installed "friction" all over the place and it is WARMING THE PLANET. It's a plot I tell you, a plot.
You'll have to drive your car on a giant hamster wheel attached to a generator for two minutes.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Naturally this is leaving aside the question of whether speed humps are worthwhile or not.
Depends on how drunk you are and how ugly she is.
But those of us with hybrid cars are already reclaiming that energy...
Hmmm. Maybe they could design a ramp that's powered by your own sense of self satifaction...
You need power for the lights, which need electricity, which costs money, so: you take electricity it from cars, which have kinetic energy, which they get from chemical energy (with losses) which their drivers get from money. If only there were a way for the government to get money directly from it's citizens...
Luckily if you drive backwards down the onramp back onto the freeway your car gains energy.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy