[chbot] Alt Energy ?

[Charles Manning]

There is no "free" energy. This is just adding drag and extracting energy
from other sources.
Yes, due to harmonics etc it would be far more efficient to:
* Fix the road so that the vehicles have a smoother and more efficient ride.
* Use a portion of the saved fuel to run a generator.

But these are the days of woke. Emotion beats the laws of physics.


On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:46 AM Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Bevin posted a notice about this...
>
>
> https://www.globalteacherprize.org/global-student-prize/jeremiah-thoronka-2021-winner
>
> "Jeremiah Thoronka, a student from Sierra Leone, who invented a device
> that uses kinetic energy from traffic and pedestrians to generate clean
> power, has been named the winner of the Chegg.org Global Student Prize
> 2021".
>
> At first blush, it sounds like third-world countries have unstable
> roadways, where passing traffic shakes-things-up-a-bit. This wasted
> energy could then be harvested by (for example) burying a huge mass
> under the road, and using differential movement to generate power.
>
> Taking my wild speculation as reasonable for a moment, and call me
> stupid if you like, but if the roads were improved, surely the
> improvement of fuel efficiency of the associated with the road-traffic
> would far exceed any small percentage of the wasted energy transferred
> into the ground ??
>
> Thoughts please !!
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
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