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Octillion Advances Technologies That Generate Electricity From Moving Vehicles

November 18th, 2008 • Richard Cochrane
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Energy-Capture technology key to whole new alternative energy idea.

Octillion has announced plans to further Octillion's development of first-generation devices capable of generating electricity by harvesting energy from vehicles in motion and is partnering with Naval Research, to use recent advances by Veryst engineers to do it.

Engineers are harvesting energy from motion says an article titled “Harvest of Motion” featured in the September 2008 issue of Mechanical Engineering Magazine. The idea is simplicity itself but not simple to do to efficiently use the movement of millions of cars, buses, trucks, trains, and even rapid transit to generate electricity, through the installation of kinetic-power technologies at high-volume toll plazas, border check points, truck weigh scales, highway rest stops, exit ramps, and even restaurant drive-thru windows.

The idea is based on developing energy-capture devices that produce more than they use and represent a truly transformational technology for generating electricity in a brand new way. The United States is the world's largest consumer of electricity burning coal or natural gas to produce 70% of it. Electricity is expected to remain the fastest-growing form of end-use energy worldwide through 2030, as it has been over the past several decades.

The actual gadget necessary to do so exists in small scale, the challenge now is to upscale it, and there is optimism that this can be done but the issue is when. It is doubtless that harvesting all this excess energy has huge potential.

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  1. Comment by Tony Carter on 1 December 2008:

    The quicker we move away from our dependence on fossil fuels the better. It is good to see more and more companies step up and use alternative energy methods.

  2. Comment by morochos.net on 2 December 2008:

    I think that alternative energy methods will replace petroleum, but the problem remaining is the infrastructure substitution. Imagine the edifications, pipes, vehicles and the others structures made for the oil's world…

    morochos.nets last blog post..Why Barack Obama nominated Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State? Is he preparing a hard-line diplomacy?

  3. Comment by solouno on 3 December 2008:

    morochos: My guess is that petroleum drilling and use in a variety of ways will be with us forever, and hopefully it will just be a much smaller part of our energy sources. Someone once told me we should be reducing our oil use and saving it for our grandchildren because we are going to run out of it. My response was that I am afraid we will never run out of oil.

  4. Comment by Earth 4 Energy on 15 May 2009:

    Sounds impressive. Must confess that I have never heard about this technology before, but I guess the more alternative energy the better.

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