EEVblog 1647 - Road Based Energy AGAIN. Rouute vs R-2ENERGY

[EEVblog]

You might have thought the Rouute road based energy system was gone, but like a phoenix it has returned from the grifting ashes as R-2ENERGY!
Sadly, Discount Morgan Freeman has been replaced by discount Joe Average
https://www.r-2e.com/
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11768960
https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-2energy/

[.RC.]

Buggered if I know, seems simpler to just put magnets on cars and copper coils on the road and then power the world with the free energy. 

[rhodges]

When I heard this was "ground breaking" technology, I had to agree.

I really like the idea that the energy stolen from the cars can power a recharging station. They must be laughing at the "perpetual motion" deniers!

[golden_labels]

They are on the right path. They already removed two claims as an improvement. Now they only must get rid of that one about taking energy from cars and the company is 100% legit. It will also make their video shorter, saving bandwidth.

[Brumby]

Let's presume they actually get a decent stretch of road along a prime route.  Then watch the traffic chaos as drivers go out of their way to avoid it, because their fuel consumption goes up.

Why are such basic principles of physics overlooked?


Their skills would be better served in politics, advertising or the media, where inconvenient facts get routinely ignored.

[Haenk]

Thanks for that hilarious video. On the other hand, these physics clowns make an easy target
I wonder how many times they have to "re-invent" this nonsense to find the pot of gold at the end of the shitbow.

[Ranayna]

Thanks for that hilarious video. On the other hand, these physics clowns make an easy target
I wonder how many times they have to "re-invent" this nonsense to find the pot of gold at the end of the shitbow.

They will re-invent this nonsense until they go to jail.
They likely already have their own "pot of gold" already tucked away. I don't know how much investor money they got for Rouute, but squirreling away a portion of that is, from what i see, not really difficult.

[EEVblog]

They will re-invent this nonsense until they go to jail.

No one is going to jail over something like this, unless you are really really dumb. It's trivially easy to "fail" at a business and start a new one. There is nothing illegal about having grandious dreams, and then just being bad an business or engineering etc.

[golden_labels]

Things change, if the company manages to swallow government money before failing and the officials are at least half-competent. Yes, I’m aware tha latter condition is hard to satisfy.

[nctnico]

I see a huge market potential though: energy harvesting speedbumps. 

[golden_labels]

Active roads harvesting energy from speeding cars, delivering it to everybody else.

[SiliconWizard]

I guess you could harvest energy - that is otherwise effectively lost - in areas where people have to brake (near traffic lights, indeed speedbumps, ...) but I doubt it would ever be worth the cost.

[nctnico]

I guess you could harvest energy - that is otherwise effectively lost - in areas where people have to brake (near traffic lights, indeed speedbumps, ...) but I doubt it would ever be worth the cost.

That has already been covered: regenerative braking. 

We are seriously wasting precious bandwidth over this topic. 

There have been and always will be people trying to invent / sell the perpetuum mobile.

[langwadt]

it's one of those where your first thought is this must be an example of Poe's law. But it is probably more like the usually scam mail, deliberately over the top and possibly with bad spelling, that sorts out the people that aren't worth spending time on because they are too smart to fall for the scam