Harnessing the Energy Beneath Your Tires

[flintlock]

Anyone care to throw their 2 cents in about this company?

http://www.newenergytechnologiesinc.com/technology.html

As you read this sentence, enough energy is being produced to light up half a million homes. But sadly, that energy is wasted because there is no technology to capture it.

The energy I’m referring to is the kinetic energy produced by the 250 million vehicles traveling U.S. roads every day. And New Energy Technologies Inc. is developing an exciting new technology that will help capture a portion of that valuable energy.

Our technology is similar to what is used to power hybrid cars, but instead of being installed in each vehicle, it’s installed in the roadways, capturing the friction energy that is otherwise dissipated as heat.

[LargoWinch]

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Anyone care to throw their 2 cents in about this company?

http://www.newenergytechnologiesinc.com/technology.html

My little finger tells me that this is another pipe dream at current energy prices...

[Starving Steve]

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Anyone care to throw their 2 cents in about this company?

http://www.newenergytechnologiesinc.com/technology.html

Good luck. :rolleyes:

Maybe cars that ran on rails embedded into roadways would save a tonne of energy, but even that idea would be difficult to make practical.

The best way to solve this long-term energy crisis is nuclear power together with hydro-electricity, clean coal, and upgraded heavy oil. In the US and Canada, heavy vehicles like transport trucks might be converted to run on natural gas because we have oooooooooodles of natural gas.

I wish I were heading the Department of Energy in Washington, because I would kick all of the greenies OUT and solve this energy problem, fast. (Let the greenies working with Chou at the Dept.of Energy go back to the West Coast and smoke pot.)

[charliebrown]

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don't know. not enough meat on this web site to figure out how it works, what are the installation and maintenance costs and how much energy does it generate per vehicle / mph reduction. My big question is how does it "latch" onto the car? Magnetically?

[Starving Steve]

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Watching the world news on CCTV 9 (China Central Television in English ) last night here in California, I learned that China is now the world's leading producer of wind power. Even so, even with forests of windmills everywhere in China--- even with windmills in rows out into the ocean---wind produces UNDER ONE PERCENT of China's needed electric power.

The sad facts of life about green technology are only now becoming apparent to anyone with half-a-brain. But just wait, the size of the green tech boondoggle has yet to unfold in all of its glory!:rolleyes:

[metalman]

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the greentech bubble lives!

[ggirod]

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This is brilliant, Brilliant, I tell you!!! Rob hybrids and electric cars of the energy regeneration they get from stopping and instead sell the energy at maybe half price or less as electricity (which can be provided with a multitude of stationary power supplies). This would be workable if cars were all traditional gas powered vehicles that waste the energy of braking, but the new vehicles recover that energy and would lose about half (I would guess) of the recovered energy by roadway theft.

This is an idea whose time is passing - I hope nobody implements it because hybrids and electric vehicles will have to avoid those roadways like the plague!

[GRG55]

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...I hope nobody implements it because hybrids and electric vehicles will have to avoid those roadways like the plague!

Yep. Time once again to revive the idea of putting a small wind turbine on every electric car so that as it moves forward it keeps the batteries charged all the time. Voila, no need for a plug in to take energy from the grid, hybrid engines, or any of those complications. What could be simpler?...;) :p :rolleyes:

[tacito]

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Ecological engine for my next car:
- Low biomass consumption (half celulose, half grain based) plus water.
- Low metane and CO2 emissions. No dangerous polluants.
- Environment friendly residues are 100% biodegradable.
- Low maintenance and extreme durability! Can last 12 years on average and up to 35.
- Model shown is four legs for urban use. Also available with five for increased performance.
- And can serve as a pet for your children too!

Regards

[charliebrown]

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do i hear the sound of pigs feeding at the gvt. trough?

[flintlock]

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don't know. not enough meat on this web site to figure out how it works, what are the installation and maintenance costs and how much energy does it generate per vehicle / mph reduction. My big question is how does it "latch" onto the car? Magnetically?

I also thought, "where's the beef?". How does this harness the braking energy? I guess you have to "invest" in order to find that out. :rolleyes:

The reason I posted this is that a buddy emailed it to me and said his broker was suggesting it! I told him that we've seen this type story before on Itulip and to be careful.

I'm still waiting for my "harness the power of the tides" idea to be taken up by one of these companies. Then I buy in.

[ggirod]

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The idea to harness braking energy has been around since the aftermath of the first fuel crisis. I suspect Popular Science or Popular Mechanics has run articles on it. For a conceptual understanding, imagine that there was a treadmill in the road and instead of a motor you had a generator. When you put on the brakes, you slide the belt of the treadmill, run a generator, and transfer your kinetic energy to the generator. Now, for a lot of reasons that is not practical. I think what they do instead is capture the last part of the energy (the final stop) with a movable section of road that moves a bit as the car stops and that motion is turned into rotation for a generator. For normal cars it might recover significant energy, but for modern hybrids and light cars it would be a bust. Trucks, SUVs, and hulks of other sorts would generate significant energy cumulatively.

It has never been particularly practical, I think there were probably demonstration projects back in the day and now it probably isn't practical either ... but it is a good way to separate an investment from an investor.

[newnewthing]

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Gee, if I jump up in the air the moment my feet leave the ground I have gained a certain momentum with an upward vector. The Earth has gained an equal and opposite momentum. However, the kinetic energy the Earth has gained is miniscule. You can't extract energy from the forces of the car's wheels against pavement - from the pavement. You can, however, convert the car's kinetic energy into electricity, a storeable form. There's a name for those. They are called "hybrid car or all electric cars" as they all use dynamic braking.

[FRED]

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From iTulip.com - Energy and Money:

[Starving Steve]

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Don't laugh. With green tech, this is exactly where we are headed.:mad: