[Akiba] You can also just use the extra lard from the fryers to power SUV's...[/Akiba]

For years we have complained that all these schemes to harvest energy from moving cars, like the recent installation at a Sainsbury in the UK, were just a very inefficient tax on drivers, but they keep popping up. When it comes to energy, there is no such thing as a free lunch; if a car goes over a device that generates energy, it is getting that energy from gasoline inefficiently converted to forward motion and equally inefficiently converted back to energy.

But New Energy Technologies may be on to something with their "MotionPower™ Energy Harvesting". They only want to put their device where people are slowing down and would otherwise be using the brakes.

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