Turning Highways into Power Plants
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Last week, Engadget had a story on some design students that are looking to turn highways into power plants. The concept looks to turn highways, one of the major causes of pollution in this country, into a source of renewable energy that will in turn lessen the need for coal-fired or nuclear power plants. The studies are in the dreamer phase right now and may never be feasible but it is an idea of what design students are working on that we may see in the future.
The two designs linked by Engadget would replace the horizontal pipes that currently hold road signage with giant turbines (where would the road signs go?) and a median turbine that would use the wind from cars going both directions to turn the turbines.
Pie in the sky? Probably, but at least there are some people out there looking at way out designs trying to find a better solution to the problem of pollution.