Quickie four week group project for sophomore studio. The prompt was potholes. My group started proposing ideas about re-purposing potholes by making them produce electricity through either heat conversion or piezoelectric systems. We expanded our initial idea to make it more efficient by introducing piezoelectric technology into a crosswalk.
cool project ian
ReplyDeleteHow much electrical power does it generate? Could such a device be put under miles of interstate highway and generate enough power to run a household, or neighborhood?
ReplyDeleteThis technology has the potential to produce a lot of energy. Honestly speaking, I cannot put a quantified number on how much energy it makes. But think of it this way: your cigarette lighter in your car is ignited with a single piezoelectric plate. If your finger can produce a spark with enough energy to light that flame, think how much a million piezoelectric plates can produce off the thousands of cars pounding the pavement every second.
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