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New take on wind farming

by David Allen on Saturday, October 13th, 2007

This is a great new idea that puts a new slant on wind farm. Instead of taking up valuable land or spoiling

the coastline with offshore wind farms. These turbines sit over the road and it is the turbulence of the vehicles passing below that drive the turbines around and it is this movement that generates the power.

wind power

The idea come from a student from Arizona State University, and each turbine would be capable of generating enough power to light up a medium sized apartment, even if the wind speed is only at a low 10 mph.

If this took off there are literally thousands of miles freeway that could be used for potential power generation in the future!

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Pingback by choicesab » Blog Archive » New take on wind farming — October 20, 2007 @ 8:43 pm

cool concept…is the purpose just to capture wind and feed it back to the general grid or provide a specific energy source for the city’s DOT?

Comment by Garrett — October 26, 2007 @ 10:56 am

great idea… I bet it can be implemented into a city like chicago, over its high way system. all tho unless an area supplier will not lobby against it, we might actually see this happening.. thanx for the concept idea …

Comment by lucas — December 25, 2007 @ 10:50 pm

Great idea. But I guarantee you, the minute a bird is found dead anywhere near one of those, you won’t hear the end of it from the enviromentalist wack-o’s out there..

Comment by luke — January 10, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

This is actually a bad idea- a very bad idea.

It would actually just be havesting energy from the cars… And using their gasoline to do it!

The wind is in being generated by the cars and when the wind is kept moving by them it actually helps the cars move along- slightly increasing their fuel efficiency. If you harvest that wind power, then there is not as much wind present and the cars must force their way through more non-moving air- decreasing their fuel efficiency.

It is a great idea if you wan’t to make the car drivers have to buy and burn more fuel and get energy off them “for free”, but a bad idea if you are actually interested in the environment.

Comment by meico — June 9, 2008 @ 9:21 am

That’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard…

Comment by skeptical — October 10, 2008 @ 3:48 pm

this is a great idea!

Comment by megan — October 14, 2008 @ 8:00 am

Impractical
A traditional wind turbine produces enough watts to power up to 600 HOMES. One of these only powers ONE medium size apartment. Thus, if you had one of these every mile on every highway in the country you still would only be able to power less than 0.5% of the homes in the country.
Good idea. Put not practical. If you are concerned about using up valuable land you will find that several companies are engineering turbines to be placed 20 miles off of the east coast. Now that is brilliant.

Comment by chris — October 14, 2008 @ 4:07 pm

I think, that it’s a very good idea. I hope, that the technology comes to Poland as soon as possible,

Comment by Krzysiek_sochaczew — January 9, 2009 @ 2:15 pm

Hey I really like the idea and I believe you should follow through with it because you never know what could end up making you a fortune.
I would also say that you should see about proposing one to the city of Atlanta, Georgia because we cannot even afford to power our own street lights at night, and we have plenty of 80 mph freeways all around the city, or even next to the runway at the airport, which is the single buisiest in the world.

-Thanks
-Hunter
-Athens Georgia
-Age: 12

Comment by hunter — January 14, 2009 @ 7:50 pm

20 miles of the east coast is brilliant huh? that is unless global warming happens to decrease the power of Atlantic winds, which it is doing. It will look neat though.

Comment by mckay — February 11, 2009 @ 12:33 pm

What about sticking these at the end of Airport runways?

Comment by Gadget — February 24, 2009 @ 8:53 am

This is sooo awsum and i agree what about sticking these at air ports?

Comment by Franki — February 26, 2009 @ 8:52 am

Itsan amazing idea and it will be great change for producing electricity in future years

Comment by Gayathri — March 5, 2009 @ 3:50 am

If you put these on freeways that experience alot of wind I think it would work. Like Texas pan handle and Oklahoma. That would be a non stop energy source.

Comment by palogee — April 6, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

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