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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."

5 of 426 comments (clear)

  1. WOOHOO!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FUCKing RIGHt d0g!!!

  2. BREAKING: Attempted Assassination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It looks like an assassination was attempted against Iran's president, but failed.

    You may recall him from such news clips as "What Holocaust?" and "The Jews Should All Go to Alaska."

    news story

  3. Re:This is equivalent to taxing gasoline... by eh2o · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  4. Re:Great idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It be a movie quote, dog.

  5. Re:Great idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It be a movie quote, dog.

    That explains the mispelling...