Next-generation alternative and renewable energy developer New Energy Technologies Inc. has successfully conducted its first durability field test of the company's prototyped MotionPower technology at a Hillside, N.J., Burger King. The technology generates electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks, and in the test turned on a light.
New Energy's MotionPower technology is designed to be installed in locations where hybrid, next-generation electrical, and conventional fuel-driven vehicles decelerate or stop, thus ensuring that vehicles are not 'robbed' of energy they would otherwise use to accelerate. Instead, MotionPower devices actually assist vehicles in slowing down, and in the process of doing so, capture the vehicles' motion energy before it is lost as brake heat, and creatively converts that energy into clean 'green' electricity.
The durability test was conducted at a prominent Burger King's franchise restaurant in the New York Metro area owned and operated by Drew Paterno and Michael Wallstein over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-7.
While Paterno does not foresee the device fully powering the restaurant, he said he does anticipate it contributing electricity to a restaurant, according to a story on Fox News.
To-date, New Energy has filed nine new patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to protect novel features of its MotionPower technology for generating electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles.
In addition to tests conducted at Burger King, engineers are testing New Energy's prototyped mechanical MotionPower system for cars and light trucks at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C., and at the Holiday Inn Express in Baltimore.
