Lebanese Electricity Gain from Traffic Pain | Al Akhbar English
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A road bump may be an unavoidable traffic nuisance. Not in the Lebanese village of Basateen, where newly-built road bumps generate electricity
A banner beside the road bump at the northern entrance to Basateen in Mount Lebanon proclaims: “We work for you, this bump generates electricity.”
Souheil Matar, one of the engineers responsible for the project, claims the fixture is “the first in Lebanon and the Arab world.”
A touch of logic and engineering know-how made the project possible.
The fixture is “the first in Lebanon and the Arab world.”“We dug a channel across the road one meter deep, and 70 centimetres wide. We put a device inside it that is made of sharp-edged circles that rotate when cars pass over it,” Matar reveals.
“With more cars passing, the pressure on this device increases, thus speeding up the rotation and generating electricity that is then stored in batteries to be used when needed,” he continues.