Project Title: Traffic Powered Renewable Energy

Problem: The number of consumers of electricity has now increased owing to the rapid urbanization process. The availability of regular conventional fossil fuels will be the main sources for power generation, but there is a fear that they will get exhausted eventually by the next few decades. Therefore, we have to investigate some approximate, alternative, new sources for the power generation, which is not depleted by the very few years.

Solution: In order to reduce the load on national grid we need to produce the power which is cheaper and portable. As London is the largest city of the Europe, and its population is increasing rapidly, will result in heavy traffic load on the roads. And no one can control to minimize it.So, why not to implement such a technology on the roads of London, that can take the everyday traffic and turned it into a constant stream of electricity.That is why traffic powered renewable energy technology can play an important role towards the energy demand of London.

Originality: Though this is an existing technology. But, no one ever bothered to implement this technology to make the city self-sufficient in energy demands for street lights, signals etc. As London is a hub of tourism, so we can make the London a city of lights by implanting this idea, without being worried to fulfill that energy demands.

Practicality: All we need is to install a "T-press", on the road. Which can be easily installed without disrupting a flow of traffic or major road construction. Vehicles do not have to slow down when passing over a "T-press". With every depression of the "T-press", the pressurized air is sent to the cylinders to control room, located on side of the road. From the cylinders the air will dispersed to the "air motor", which then turns the "alternator". The electricity produce this way can be sent to signals and street lights or it can also be stored in a batteries (just like solar PV systems).

Clarity: I would say, its just like hand pump, use to fill the air in tubes. First we will pump the air, and will store in a tank or cylinder. Then this pressurized air will use to produce electricity through 'air motor'. Just like the fan which itself starts rotating if it hit by an air storm.

Carbon emission reduction: As this technology is producing electricity without using any fossil fuels or other things that produce carbon emissions, therefore, this idea is just like renewable energy. And we can say its emission free. Also, it will overcome the burden to some extent from the conventional power plants, because a part of energy demand would be covered by this technology.

Sustainability Benefits: Once we have this idea implemented, we can generate as much electricity as we want, which can then be utilized for any purpose, e.g. for street lights, for signals, for tube stations, can be sent to the main grids.

As we know the UK's solar radiation intensity is less than 120 watts per square meter which is less than parts of the globe at lower latitudes. The sunniest parts of the UK receive just over half as much solar radiation as the sunniest parts of Europe. That is why, the main source of electrical power production in the UK is from fossil fuels (Gas, Oil and coal etc), through the combined cycle thermal power stations. Which produces a lot of emissions that directly goes to the atmosphere and make our environment polluted. When these emission comes out of the Boiler's chimney, it has got some pressure and temperature. In other words, we can it has got some energy that we are just wasting in the atmosphere.

Solar updraft tower is a technology which uses sunlight to heat the air inside the collectors, which then rises up through the chimney and make the turbine rotates at the base of the chimney. Hence electricity produces. My ides is also revolves around this principle, That instead of heating the air from the sun, we can use that heated gases which is coming out of the Boiler's chimney. That heated gas which then repeat the same principle as i mentioned before.

It means for the same amount of whatever the fossil fuel we are using, we can get the more electrical power from our combined power cycle station.

All we need is to install one suction blower, to bleed out the gases through the chimney to the place where our solar tower would be installed.

I would say, when the air blows around the fan which is turned off, what would happen?The fan will start rotating without electricity. Similarly, instead of air i want to run a turbine (coupled with generator) with the gases which is at high temperature and pressure.

We can save much much carbon emissions by implementing the idea. As we are fully relying on fossil fuels for our energy demands and there is no coming back from it, for the next many years. Then, why not to get the as much electricity production as much we can, out of the fuel we are using. Which means for the same amount of carbon emissions, which that power station is already producing, we can generate more electricity.

We can also make the chimney of our solar tower as much high as we can, to through the remaining flue gases up high in the atmosphere. So that it will not effect the air we breathe, in a severe way.

We can also make the chimney of our solar tower as much high as we can, to through the remaining flue gases up high in the atmosphere. So that it will not effect the air we breathe, in a severe way.

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