California is betting $2 million that its traffic jams can generate electricity.

Grist
By Katie HerzogSep 26, 2016, 4:25 pm118 pts
The idea, the Associated Press reports, is that piezoelectric crystals installed under roadways can capture the energy created by the vehicles atop them. The evidence that this will work, however, isn’t exactly robust. The California Energy Commission, which will invest the $2 million in field tests of…

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