Energy Highway

Millions of cars travel 24X7 over the highways network around the world. How is about reclaiming the lost frictional energy?

Imagine clusters of frictionless, freely rotating wheels placed alond the high ways at predesigned areas. The upper surface of the wheels are flushed with the road surface. The energy produced are picked up, processed, transmitted and distributed. Definitely a conceptual design is needed.

The picture on the left shows the freely rotating wheels. A current collector strip runs parallel to the highway. The energies are pickedup and processed for routing to the T&D facilities.