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more about #king more comments → Cognitive Friction: "More than 150,000 cars drive through our Hillside store alone each year" I'm trying to focus on the story, but after reading that sentence all I can ... more » beercheck: Yep. Stealing. more » 32ndnote: Hmmm. Burger King, I think you're being a little selfish here. Mcdonald's is willing to give us energy while you're trying to take it away from us! So... more » maximum-sienna: I have a Perpetual Motion machine available for BK. I'll sell them at $100 to each of their locations. It runs of unicorn farts and stupidity. So a... more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: A life cycle analysis would probably show that the apparatus will never generate more energy than went into making the thing in the first place, and t... more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: So, in this kinetically-powered future, we all drive YJ Wranglers and 2nd generation Honda Preludes? more » Lost in the age of Aerostar: can I be the first one to back up over these? more » TimTim: Ok, first off kinetic means moving, your car is a device to move you from point A to point B (or window A to window B in this case) so the kinetic ene... more » jumpyfroggy: Maybe if they used a downhill slope, instead of stealing the energy from the cars, they could use the energy from gravity. Of course that would only... more » Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it: Not a bad idea...and the more Whoppers people eat, the Heavier their cars will get as the year goes on! Soon, the 380 lb dude in the Focus will create... more » Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): OK, seems like what I was envisioning (the platforms) is not exactly the same as the video. If there were a drive-thru that was already angled downhil... more » Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): I've read about these in potential pedestrian applications, but not for cars. Interesting. I have very limited physics background, but basically, isn'... more » milo_carrera--fighting the good fight: They're stealing our kinetic energy! Bastards! I intended to use that energy to regeneratively brake my Prius, thereby saving the world from the hor... more » 01NB, now with less 01NB: Our question is — Will they lower prices on the double Whoppers since we're lazily doing some of the work to power the joint? No, cuz then most of ... more » Elhigh: Jeez, am I the only one who understands physics? Where do they think the kinetic energy is coming from? That's right - from moving cars! And do you... more » -
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Burger King Drive-Thru To Harness Power Via Kinetic Energy
A New Jersey-based Burger King has announced they'll install a kinetic energy harnessing speed bump in their drive-thru to tap into the unused power generated by the hundreds of cars that pass through daily. More »
