Friday, October 17, 2008

Past Idea that my friend suggested I post

Some way to capture the heat off the road, it seems as though roads are huge collectors of solar energy, it would be nice if there was some way to reclaim that from either a car or something built into the road. My idea was a grid that is paved into the road that heats up from the road surface, perhaps something that expands and contracts based on heat and cool, I dunno just a thought...

1 comment:

Nick Christy said...

So here is something along those same lines that I have been thinking about. With this drive for alternative energy, why not have cars that are powered by wind? You would have a gas start to get you up to a speed (say 30 mph) then you would have small fan blades that would capture your drift and turn it into energy to power the car. Of course this would probably increase in road fatalities because someone would get in a fender bender and have their head cut off by a fan blade...