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[marsden_online]

NZ technology generates electricity from passing cars

Auckland company Enervate is looking to a Singapore shopping mall for further road-testing of its innovative technology to capture energy from passing vehicles.

The company's PowerTread system, in which tubes that are compressed by vehicles and pump hydraulic fluid to turn a turbine and generate electricity, has undergone extensive testing and simulation over the past three years.

One PowerTread unit can capture enough energy from vehicles on a roadway to supply power to up to three typical New Zealand homes, the company says.

Edit: Found a video from TV3

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[bigdee.livejournal.com]

One step closer to harvesting all that excess energy that we create so unavoidably every day. Roll on the eventual day when we can somehow harness all the stray heat created by applicances, computers and machinery...