A compressed air generation system that provides compressed air for a variety of applications including generation of electricity. The a system for accumulating and storing compressed air that is later used for a variety of applications including energy generation. The system uses mechanical air pumps that are activated when vehicles, including cars and buses, pass over air pumps imbedded in the road surface. Alternative embodiments use air compression pumps to store compressed air when the moving vehicles, such as trains, pass over railroad ties. The compressed air is fed into air accumulators that are used to produce clean electrical energy.

A piezo electric and thermal harvesting method for rail-transportation systems. The method embodies a three-dimensional arrangement of piezo vertebrae configured in parallel within a track housing that is operatively associated with the rail of the rail-transportation system. Weight from rail traffic compresses the track housing and thus the piezo vertebrae, thereby generating electricity. Thermal control incorporates a chill beam within the track housing as well as a multi-wire thermal electric couple wiring scheme.

A roadways power and energy mechanical road captures and harnesses energies imparted to the roadway by the tires of vehicles driven on the roadway. Pistons, crank shafts, and additional mechanical interconnections mounted in a housing installed beneath the surface of the roadway are connected to generators adjacent to the roadway to convert linear mechanical motion to rotational mechanical motion to generate electrical power.

A system is provided for generating electrical energy from passage of a vehicle over a road surface. The system comprises a pressure receiver connected to a rotatable shaft associated with a primary transmission unit. The pressure receiver is adapted for swinging motion over the road surface, so that upon pressure being applied to the pressure receiver by the moving vehicle the receiver swings in the direction of vehicle movement, wherein kinetic energy of vehicle motion is transferred to the shaft resulted in its rotation causing operation of a primary energy transmission unit consisting of the driving sprocket and a driven sprocket-follower wheel assembly which is coupled by a leading transmission arrangement an electrical generator.

A method for harvesting energy from a train passing over a railroad rail. The method including transferring a deflection of the rail from the train to a mechanical energy storage device; storing mechanical energy provided by the transfer mechanism until a predetermined amount of mechanical energy is stored; transferring the stored mechanical energy to a generator upon the stored mechanical energy reaching the predetermined amount; and converting the transferred mechanical energy to electrical energy.

An energy harvesting system can comprise an actuator comprising a translationally displaceable surface, the translationally displaceable surface being configured to transition from a first position to a second position upon contact by a movable unit; a vertical rack in contact with the actuator, and configured to be translationally displaced in response to translational displacement of the actuator; a pinion configured to engage with the vertical rack and to rotate in response to translational displacement of the vertical rack; a main shaft coupled to the pinion and configured to rotate with rotation of the pinion; and a flywheel and a generator coupled to the main shaft, wherein rotation of the main shaft generates mechanical energy stored by the flywheel, and wherein the generator is configured to generate electrical energy from the mechanical energy stored by the flywheel.

A roadways power and energy mechanical road captures and harnesses energies imparted to the roadway by the tires of vehicles driven on the roadway. Pistons, crank shafts, and additional mechanical interconnections mounted in a housing installed beneath the surface of the roadway are connected to generators adjacent to the roadway to convert linear mechanical motion to rotational mechanical motion to generate electrical power.

A Drive-In Electric Turbine (D-IET) is an electric turbine that uses the locomotion of gravity through the weight of roving cars, loaded carts, rollers, trucks or trains collectively known herein as gravity-on-wheels (GOWs) that serves as roving gravity that pedal down the D-IETs' levers that crank the flywheels that power-up the generators. D-IET uses as primary components: an omega-like pedal lever, (tilted by default at 45-degree from the ground) heavy flywheels, free-wheel mechanism and generators interconnected through sprockets, belts and chains. To produce highest energy return of investment (EROI) a plurality of at least ten D-IETs arrayed across a circle or oval track is preferred with the pedal levers visibly protruding along the track's surface, The weight or gravity of the GOWs pedal down the D-IETs' levers to the ground level producing a rotational energy in the heavy flywheels and eventually the generators as they pass over the pedal levers. Then, one or two seconds right after the pass, the pedal levers are returned freely to their default 45-degree tilted positions again by the lever-restorer devices through the gravity of the counterweights ready to be pedaled down again by the next passing GOW even while the flywheels are still spinning because of the freewheel mechanism that allows forward cranking one way but can be reversed freely without affecting the rotating flywheel. And, inasmuch as the D-IETs are laid down and GOWs running in the same circle or oval train track (in train configuration), the down-up-down-up-down movement of the pedal levers are being repeated over again and again producing a non-stop rotation of the flywheels and powering up of the generators. And furthermore, because in one embodiment (where the hybrid vehicle switches from gasoline to electrical) the GOWs and the generators can symbiotically power each other resulting in a potentially continuing operation.

A power generation apparatus includes a rocker arm having a first end and a second end and is mounted pivotally between the first end and the second end, wherein reciprocal movement of the first end between raised and lowered positions urges reciprocal movement of the second end between lowered and raised positions. A pulley apparatus couples the second end of the rocker arm to a drive member, wherein reciprocal movement of the second end of the rocker arm between its lowered and raised positions urges reciprocal rotation of the drive member between first and second positions. A transmission interacts between the drive member and the output shaft, wherein reciprocal rotation of the drive member between its first and second positions urges rotation of the output shaft in one direction.

A power generation apparatus includes a rocker arm having a first end and a second end and is mounted pivotally between the first end and the second end, wherein reciprocal movement of the first end between raised and lowered positions urges reciprocal movement of the second end between lowered and raised positions. A pulley apparatus couples the second end of the rocker arm to a drive member, wherein reciprocal movement of the second end of the rocker arm between its lowered and raised positions urges reciprocal rotation of the drive member between first and second positions. A transmission interacts between the drive member and the output shaft, wherein reciprocal rotation of the drive member between its first and second positions urges rotation of the output shaft in one direction.