Various specialists from various countries of the world have dedicated themselves to proposing options to obtain renewable energies from our environment that break dependency on fossil fuels and reduce CO2 emissions, thus slowing down climate change. Of course, they must be viable and profitable projects.
The studies focus on harnessing the Kinetic energy (human movement or vehicles), wind or solar that is generated in roads, highways, urban roads, port areas and in supermarkets. According to these researchers, with this energy transformed into electricity, they could light street lamps, light signals and even air conditioning systems, to create more sustainable roads.
One of them, the engineer Peter Hughes (England) created a “Electro Kinetic Road Ramp”. As the cars pass on this ramp, the panels move up and down and this movement is sent to a motor that generates mechanical energy. According to Hughes, each ramp is capable of generating 30 kw / h in normal traffic conditions, with which four ramps would power streetlights and traffic lights and other luminous signals located up to a distance of 1,5 km long. The price of the ramps is between 24 thousand and 66 thousand euros, depending on their size and their capacity to produce energy, it is said that they would be amortized in a maximum of 4 years.
The English engineer markets his invention through a company, created for this purpose, Energy systems. London's Ealing County, a port and supermarket network in Gloucester have conducted various tests of the ramps since 2009. The platforms are located in the parking lot of the shopping center and for now generate electricity for the cash registers. In the port area, the experience is more profitable because trucks, being heavier, produce much more energy than a car produces. On Spain, two Navarrese entrepreneurs created Echo Raec to distribute Hughes ramps in the Iberian Peninsula.
Source: Ecoticias