Speed Breaker Electricity Generation Mechanism
Mr. Lamkane Dhanaji Maruti , Lokhande Dipak Mahadev, Kshirsagar Tejraj Yuvraj, Awatade Onkar Bhaskar, Hake Somnath Laxman
Chapter 1
“Introduction”
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Energy is the primary and most universal measure of all kinds of works by human beings and nature. Everything what happens in the world is the expression of flow of energy in one of its forms. Most people use the word energy for input to their bodies or to the machines and thus think about crude fuels and electric power.
Energy in the form of electricity plays a very important role in the life of a normal man. Electricity is one of the greatest wonders of science. Next to man, it is the most important and revolutionary creation in this world of ours .It has practically revolutionized the world .The gradual but excessive use of electricity has come to bring about a stupendous changes in industry. With it our modern gigantic tools are worked. Computers as also calculators sum up totals and make other calculations with the utmost accuracy. Newspapers and books are printed in millions overnight. There is not a single phase of human life that is not indebted to electricity for its progress .The modern age has, therefore, been truly called the “age of electricity.”
We do many things with electricity nowadays. We warm our homes, we drive the machines in factories, and we run our trains and buses. Electricity has completely revolutionized the methods of travel and transport .It has enabled us to travel in aero planes and fly into cold atmosphere of the sky. We also have electric trains in our country.
So today our whole life style is dependent on electricity with the increasing population the use of electric power is also increasing. But we know that the resources to generate electricity are limited, and this has lead to the energy crisis. During this scenario we need to generate electricity from things used in day-to-day life. In this project we have tried to generate electricity through speed breaker present on roads. As we know that vehicles on road are increasing day by day this will help us to generate electricity as these vehicles pass through the speed breaker. This electricity generated can be used for different purpose such as lighting of signals and streetlights on road etc. This set up requires very basic mechanical components such as gear shaft bearing. There are also some electrical components such battery, inverter etc.
