by FPLM » 26/02/10, 09:37
It's crazy, I was thinking of something like that last night! I am Belgian, I specify, and the public lighting of Belgian roads has always shocked me. Especially since the nuke also feeds them.
2 things disturb me in this conception, the height of the wind turbines and the interest of the recovery of the air displacement of the vehicles.
1) I do not understand why the wind turbines are not installed at the top, above the lamps. The higher you go, the more it blows, right?
2) Recovering the movement of air from vehicles is not a renewable energy. If our vehicles greatly optimize their aerodynamics tomorrow (which is desirable), what will we do with the millions of wind turbines installed for this purpose? I admit playing the devil's advocate because the resale or reuse of these is a possible solution but you have to think of any eventuality. In any case, otherwise, kilometers of wind turbines in this arrangement will slow down the vehicles, inducing turbulence, the direction of rotation of which will be in the opposite direction of the movement of the vehicles. This will either increase their consumption or decrease their performance.
The idea isn't bad though, as it often does, but the design might be better suited I think. It all depends on the desired goal of course.
Perhaps I did not understand the goal precisely ...
That said, by keeping a simple and inexpensive design, orienting the wind turbines horizontally would have the same effect but the induced turbulence would affect the movement of vehicles less (or even more) because their rotations would no longer be contrary to the direction of movement of the latter. .
This is the idea that came to me yesterday. Having said that, I am not saying that my idea is better. However, I do not have the necessary hindsight to judge it and your criticisms or remarks are welcome.
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