HEAT PIPE TYPE ROAD SURFACE COOLING AND ELECTRICITY GENERATING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling/electricity-generating device which can cool a road surface and generate electric power by energy obtained by the cooling. SOLUTION: One end part 18 of a heat pipe provided with a turbine driven by steam flow of working fluid and a generator generating electricity driven by the turbine is arranged on the underside of a road surface 12. The other end part 19 of the heat pipe is arranged on a place 17 to be cooled. Then, heat held in the road surface 12 is carried to the place 17 to be cooled by the working fluid, and hence in addition to cooling the road surface 12 so as to prevent trail from generating, electic power can be obtained.