Hydrocult, hydrogen from traffic: the idea of three young Italian geniuses

You know those speed bumps that bother you so much while driving? The ones that force you to slow down abruptly, making you jump in your seat? Well, three students from the ITIS “A. Volta” in Alessandria have thought of transforming that annoyance into a precious resource: clean energy. Francesco, Tommaso and Paul have created Hydrocult, a system that captures the kinetic energy of vehicles that pass over speed bumps to produce hydrogen. A simpl…