It’s amazing how much energy we’re wasting every day, but every now and thereupon some concept design shows up to remind us that such energy can be captured, and the More+ Bus Handle is one such design. Instead of letting us waste of that energy when we’re holding the handle on the bus and bouncing around on our ride home, that design allows the energy to be collected, thanks to the use of piezoelectric ceramics, generating the renewable energy that we’ve all come to love and value. When the handles are moved (or swung), the piezoelectric devices are set into motion, doing its job, collecting all the energy that is normally wasted, and sent to the bus, where it can be redistributed to the passengers who need to charge their devices.

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Boffins are finding a way to use piezoelectrics on vehicles in order to convert kinetic energy into electricity, and that could mean piezoelectric devices being mounted on the roof or tail of a car or on an airplane fuselage, where the vibration within a flow would produce an output voltage. While all the juice generated is nary sufficient to match the potential of combustion engines or even come close to it, it could be used to ability other systems such as tiny electronic devices and control panels. Could energy scavenging be the new mantra?

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