As cars roll up the drive-thru lane of a Burger King franchise in New York, the kinetic energy will be harnessed to generate clean electricity. (click MotionPower link below to see 24 sec. video)
“More than 150,000 cars drive through our Hillside store alone each year, and I think it would be great to capture the wasted kinetic energy of these hundreds of thousands of cars to generate clean electricity,” said Andrew Paterno, co-owner of 12 New York metro area Burger Kings.
The MotionPower technology was developed by New Energy Technologies.
Now, if agents could only figure a way of harnassing all the energy from driving buyers around town.
Source: CNet
Image credit: Ocouha blog
Further Reading:
Windows that can generate electric energy – from sunlight and artificial lighting (isiria.wordpress.com)
Artificial trees designed to harness the power of the sun and wind (energyrefuge.com)
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