Traffic Into Electricity

A cool project by the entrepreneur Terry Kenney on conversion from traffic of big trucks to electricity. Read more after the click, and also here for more thoughts on the idea.

It took him eight years to get a working prototype, but now there’s one working at the Port of Oakland which Kenney calls the “Dragon Power Station”. Special plates are set on the road, and as big trucks drive over them (about 2,500 of them per day at the port), they compress a tank of hydraulic fluid under the road, which in turn creates a series of pumping actions that turns a generator to produce electricity.

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