(Thanks, R. :)

Reader Randy writes:

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With Paul Leo Faso now posting this is a good collateral article for power generation. I imagine this used for the under carriage and axles etc. You ride down a dirt road and come out after 10 miles with enough extra power to sell to the grid or plug in your house when you get home.

80 Megawatts per cubic meter when stressed.. Wow.

An alloy first made nearly two decades ago by the U. S. Navy could provide an efficient new way to produce electricity. The material, dubbed Galfenol, consists of iron doped with the metal gallium. In new experiments, researchers from UCLA, the University of North Texas (UNT), and the Air Force Research Laboratories have shown that Galfenol can generate as much as 80 megawatts of instantaneous power per square meter under strong impacts. The team describes the findings, which could lead to the development of wireless impact detectors and other applications, in a paper in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-09-iron-gallium-alloy-power-generation-device.html#jCp

Best Regards
Randy

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