{"id":105135923,"date":"2008-05-01T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T20:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=105135923"},"modified":"2008-05-01T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T20:25:23","slug":"turning-big-truck-traffic-into-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=105135923","title":{"rendered":"Turning Big Truck Traffic into Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nIt took him eight years to get a working prototype, but now there&#8217;s one working at the Port of Oakland which Kenney calls the &quot;Dragon Power Station&quot;. Special plates are set on the road, and as big trucks drive over them (about 2,500 of them per day at the port), they compress a tank of hydraulic fluid under the road, which in turn creates a series of pumping actions that turns a generator to produce electricity.<br \/>\nBy June, the Dragon should generate about 5,000 to 7,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each day, or enough to power up to 1,750 homes. Not bad for a prototype.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/04\/truck-traffic-electricity-dragon-station.php\">https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2008\/04\/truck-traffic-electricity-dragon-station.php<\/a>oldId.20080501202523544<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; It took him eight years to get a working prototype, but now there&#8217;s one working at the Port of Oakland which Kenney calls the &quot;Dragon Power Station&quot;. Special plates are set on the road, and as big trucks drive over them (about 2,500 of them per day at the port), they compress a tank &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=105135923\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning Big Truck Traffic into Electricity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105135923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105135923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105135923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105135923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105135923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105135923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105135923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}