EEVblog 1647 - Road Based Energy AGAIN. Rouute vs R-2ENERGY - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 24, 2024, 04:23:15 am
content: You might have thought the Rouute road based energy system was gone, but like a phoenix it has returned from the grifting ashes as R-2ENERGY!Sadly, Discount Morgan Freeman has been replaced by discount Joe Averagehttps://www.r-2e.com/https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11768960https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-2energy/

author: .RC.
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2024, 06:33:07 am
content: Buggered if I know, seems simpler to just put magnets on cars and copper coils on the road and then power the world with the free energy.

author: rhodges
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2024, 01:30:58 pm
content: When I heard this was "ground breaking" technology, I had to agree.I really like the idea that the energy stolen from the cars can power a recharging station. They must be laughing at the "perpetual motion" deniers!

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 24, 2024, 05:37:35 pm
content: They are on the right path. They already removed two claims as an improvement. Now they only must get rid of that one about taking energy from cars and the company is 100% legit. It will also make their video shorter, saving bandwidth.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 25, 2024, 04:51:33 am
content: Let's presume they actually get a decent stretch of road along a prime route. Then watch the traffic chaos as drivers go out of their way to avoid it, because their fuel consumption goes up.Why are such basic principles of physics overlooked?Their skills would be better served in politics, advertising or the media, where inconvenient facts get routinely ignored.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2024, 07:44:20 am
content: Thanks for that hilarious video. On the other hand, these physics clowns make an easy targetI wonder how many times they have to "re-invent" this nonsense to find the pot of gold at the end of the shitbow.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 25, 2024, 02:38:53 pm
content: Quote from: Haenk on October 25, 2024, 07:44:20 amThey will re-invent this nonsense until they go to jail.They likely already have their own "pot of gold" already tucked away. I don't know how much investor money they got for Rouute, but squirreling away a portion of that is, from what i see, not really difficult.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 26, 2024, 01:45:31 am
content: Quote from: Ranayna on October 25, 2024, 02:38:53 pmNo one is going to jail over something like this, unless you are really really dumb. It's trivially easy to "fail" at a business and start a new one. There is nothing illegal about having grandious dreams, and then just being bad an business or engineering etc.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2024, 01:00:41 pm
content: Things change, if the company manages to swallow government money before failing and the officials are at least half-competent. Yes, I’m aware tha latter condition is hard to satisfy.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2024, 02:22:32 pm
content: I see a huge market potential though: energy harvesting speedbumps.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2024, 03:45:26 pm
content: Active roads harvesting energy from speeding cars, delivering it to everybody else.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2024, 08:50:11 pm
content: I guess you could harvest energy - that is otherwise effectively lost - in areas where people have to brake (near traffic lights, indeed speedbumps, ...) but I doubt it would ever be worth the cost.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 26, 2024, 09:57:09 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 26, 2024, 08:50:11 pmThat has already been covered: regenerative braking.We are seriously wasting precious bandwidth over this topic.There have been and always will be people trying to invent / sell the perpetuum mobile.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 28, 2024, 10:44:56 pm
content: it's one of those where your first thought is this must be an example of Poe's law. But it is probably more like the usually scam mail, deliberately over the top and possibly with bad spelling, that sorts out the people that aren't worth spending time on because they are too smart to fall for the scam