Talking about wind power there was a thing going on a while back where they wanted to put turbines near roads to make use of the wind gusts that are pushed aside and dragged along behind cars on the interstates.
The theory was scince a car going by can hit you with a wind gust both before and after it goes by that could and should be harnessed to spin turbines to generate electric. So many miles of highway would make for great production of electirc.
Totally ridiculous.
There were people on the thing claiming they were great engineers and far smarter than us average folk and that it would work greta with no cost to the cars as they were already doing that work anyways.
Plus that fact that accident would damaged the units immensly and how do you get close enough to get the wind off a small car then clear the huge semi right behind it. They had ones both on the sides of the highway and above the vehicles as well. Its funny that people think these would work and be cost effective. Some of the comments will make you laugh. But far to many will make you want to cry.
Proposals would turn highways into wind farms - Engadget