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Title: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: Nickbat on 09 February 2009, 16:05:32
Perhaps I'm just getting too cynical in my old age, but this seems an expensive way of producing electricity. Each one costs between £20,000 and £55,000, depending on size.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/08/alternative-energy-speed-bumps

Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: nick v6 on 09 February 2009, 16:08:10
it's gonna take them a while to get there money back
seems a crappy idea to me
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: Sad on 09 February 2009, 16:14:08
I dunno, sounds like a clever idea to me...  Hope it does work, save some of that lovely fossil fuel to power my Mig    :)
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: nick v6 on 09 February 2009, 16:17:38
watch that they don't stick the car tax up to pay for the things
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 09 February 2009, 16:23:36
Will this be an excuse to install yet more of these blessed bumps that damage suspensions, exhausts, people's backs and slow down the emergency services, especially ambulances that may have badly (spinally) injured people on board?! >:( >:( >:(

There must be far better, more efficient ways of producing electricity with nuclear, wind, and tidal / wave generation. ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: bertiecbx550 on 09 February 2009, 16:38:34
Matter/Anti-Matter fusion is the way forward folks we`ll have warp speed capable starships by the end of the next century.... :D :D Whoa that whiskeys kicking in quick.... :P
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: Kevin Wood on 09 February 2009, 18:03:20
<Checks to see if it's 1st April already> Didn't think so.

Where do they think this "green" energy is coming from? Yes, that's right, the car! Which, we all know, is evil, burrns fossil fuels, murders cute fluffy little kittens, emits CO2, etc.

The car that would burn far less fossil fuel if the rather speed hump wasn't there in the first place. >:(

.. and before writing the throw-away comment that it could "power streetlamps" did the breakwit of a journalist bother to calculate how many speed humps you'd need to power a Sodium lamp every three hundred yards? Thought not..  >:(

Kevin

Kevin

EDIT: Oh! That rather echo's back too. >:(
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: r1 on 09 February 2009, 18:41:57
joke,right?
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: albitz on 09 February 2009, 18:55:37
As Richard Littlejohn would say,"you couldnt make it up"
The perfect excuse for the peoples republic of (fill in the name of any champange marxist london borough) to install speed bumps under every street lamp in every street.
Btw money has nothing to do with it,it grows on trees in socialist utopia land.
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: jerry on 09 February 2009, 19:19:10
But, like it seems to say later on in the article, these ramps can be made flat. Surely flat strips in the road could do the same job, they dont have to be raised to work do they? If so they could site them on hi-flow routes and generate more electricity. Or am I just being really dumb? :-/
                                           jerry
Title: Re: Seems a lot of money for not much return to me.
Post by: CaptainZok on 09 February 2009, 19:47:04
How about designing a generator working on the self winding watch principle. I'm sure these herberts could keep us in free power for life then. ;D