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The invention is titled Electrical Power from Road Seismic Energy. The invention consists of key concepts and proposed procedures to provide an environmentally friendly alternative source of electrical power. The invention is a description of methodology for producing electrical energy by the placement of transducers near and underneath highways. The seismic energy generated by passing traffic excites the transducers and the output of multiple transducers is combined to produce economically useful amounts of electrical power. The specific implementation of the invention is a battery charger that would also be used as the inventor's tests harness to evaluate the economics of the invention. The amount of potential energy generated by passing traffic on a highway is not generally appreciated. An analogy would be a car passing over a pontoon bridge, the pontoons rising and lowering in the water and generating waves in the water. The road seismic energy generated is greatly diminished in a relatively short distance away from the highway, and the invention is meant to capture this energy before it is diminished. The invention specifies a method of avoiding out-of-phase summation of the electrical power from multiple transducers. The invention discusses the need to match the natural frequency of the velocity transducers to the apparent seismic frequency at a particular location.
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