{"id":89901,"date":"2019-04-24T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/developing-roads-that-can-generate-power-from-passing-traffic"},"modified":"2019-04-24T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:04:31","slug":"developing-roads-that-can-generate-power-from-passing-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/developing-roads-that-can-generate-power-from-passing-traffic","title":{"rendered":"Developing roads that can generate power from passing traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers are looking at advanced materials for roads and pavements that could generate electricity from passing traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers from Lancaster University are working on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/smart+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart materials<\/a> such as \u2018piezolectric\u2019 ceramics that when embedded in road surfaces would be able to harvest and convert vehicle vibration into <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research project, led by Professor Mohamed Saafi, will design and optimise energy recovery of around one to two Megawatts per kilometre under \u2018normal\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/traffic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">traffic<\/a> volumes\u2014which is around 2,000 to 3,000 cars an hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-09-roads-power-traffic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Researchers are looking at advanced materials for roads and pavements that could generate electricity from passing traffic. Engineers from Lancaster University are working on smart materials such as \u2018piezolectric\u2019 ceramics that when embedded in road surfaces would be able to harvest and convert vehicle vibration into electrical energy. The research project, led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}