Can Vehicular Flow Work to Generate Electric Energy?

Thanks to Mexican entrepreneurs, they've worked to develop a system that can generate electricity through the power of a household device that "harnesses" the force of moving cars.

Lead developer Hector Ricardo Macias Hernadez discusses the complexity of the program that could potentially work as a global effort to help provide household electricity in areas that may suffer from frequent black outs.

"This is a technology that provides sustainable energy and could be implemented at low prices, since it's a complement of already existing infrastructure: the concrete of streets and avenues," he said, via Science Daily. 

The complex technology involves a system that works to integrate a ramp-step which elevates up to five centimeters above street level. With vehicles receiving the weight of the cars, the ramp exerts pressure to the set bellow, which in turn, helps produce electrical energy.

After the energy has been created, elements travel through a compressed tank that's relaunched in order to provide an electricity generating turbine.

According to a press release, this accumulation of electrical energy could work to help the flow of cars over a determinate spot.

This would be particularly useful in places with high pedestrian flow, according to Hernadez, as the steps of individuals alone would help generate the electrical flow via the laws of gravitational energy. This developer might even be used in places such as a train or subway system, according to researchers.

Yet above all, Hernadez stresses that the development of such a source of sustainable energy could be performed at low execution cost, so long as support from the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) could work to achieve the technological development.