A lot of energy can be harvested from Singapore's highways, using this Israeli innovative technology.
400 kW Piezoelectric Energy Recovery System Under Israel’s Highways
This principle of creating electricity has been used in devices placed under the asphalt to convert its vibrations into electricity, in Israel, by which engineers hope to harvest the energy from passing vehicles.
Their energetic figures are impressing. The developer Haim Abramovich from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa) says the system can produce up to 400kW from a 1 km long stretched system, on a four-lane highway.
This system is basically recovering energy from the cars’ wheels, produced by their internal combustion engines, but that’s not the point. The main idea is that we can recover these small bits of energy and, if applied on a large scale, can energize many homes in the surrounding towns or villages.
400 kW Piezoelectric Energy Recovery System Under Israel’s Highways
This principle of creating electricity has been used in devices placed under the asphalt to convert its vibrations into electricity, in Israel, by which engineers hope to harvest the energy from passing vehicles.
Their energetic figures are impressing. The developer Haim Abramovich from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa) says the system can produce up to 400kW from a 1 km long stretched system, on a four-lane highway.
This system is basically recovering energy from the cars’ wheels, produced by their internal combustion engines, but that’s not the point. The main idea is that we can recover these small bits of energy and, if applied on a large scale, can energize many homes in the surrounding towns or villages.