A new source of "green" electricity

Efficient economy differs from the ineffective, including the fact that she is able to use the benefits and rewards even the seemingly most unusual sources. For example, a group of scientists from the American University Stony Brook University have developed a technology to generate electricity from oscillations of the earth generated by the rushing railroad train. The one who stood at a distance even of several dozens metres from the passing of the MIME of a train, knows that it creates noticeable vibrations of the earth. In effect this early, if they pay attention, only thinking about how to protect from vibration infrastructure located in the vicinity of the railway. Now there's and idea regarding your use of the fluctuations as sources to generate "green" electricity.



Scientists and engineers have created a technology that can produce energy by passing along the rails the train. However, the concept is T-box involves the installation on railway tracks of small wind turbines that respond to turbulence from a passing team. But researchers from Stony Brook University invented a mechanism to collect the irregular oscillatory vibration of railway tracks and turn them into unidirectional movement, which can generate an electric current. This process is similar to how a rectifier converts AC to DC.



Thanks to the thus obtained electric power can be powered by electricity undemanding rail infrastructure — crossings, signal lights, etc. the Creators of this technology have already calculated that in new York state by implementing it, you can save $ 10 million a year. On the scale of all the United States of America this figure could eventually reach a billion. For this development a group of scientists from Stony Brook University received the first prize at the all-American contest held in the framework of the conference Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2012.

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