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could use a safer method.... meaning accidents to close proximity passing vehicles with wind turbine blades... I see lawsuits

how about piezoelectric cells that utilize the passing weight differentials in the road bed ---- load/unload/load/unload etc.... these cells work on the principle of alternating mechanical stress....

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Or just burn the fuel directly in a CHP plant and don't do it in an inefficient system using an engine and a very complicated indirect mechanical coupling via the roadbed.

Doubly so for electric cars. Imagine the losses in generating power, distributing it, charging a battery, running a motor, moving road or air, catching a few fractions in a turbine, generating electricity again and then transmitting that.

All these schemes are a cross between a Homer Simpson plan, Wile E. Coyote, Rube Goldberg and Troll Physics memes, angling for some greenwashing overspray capital(....)

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