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."

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Re:This is equivalent to taxing gasoline...

[eh2o]

in most of america raising taxes is the politicians' certain death. thus the need to go to great lengths to obtain the necessary resources through increasingly convoluted inventions such as this one.