Could California's gridlock generate electricity for the grid?

ENN
Sep 27, 2016, 3:05 pm18 pts
California is testing whether its heavy traffic can produce not just emissions and air pollution, but electricity. The state’s Energy Commission says it will spend $2 million to examine the potential of using piezoelectric crystals embedded under asphalt as a way to send the energy created by moving cars to…

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