Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) is a major greenhouse gas contributing to global warming. Unfortunately, generating electricity using conventional power plants from coal, natural gas, or other fossil fuels emits substantial quantities of CO₂ to the atmosphere. In the future, unchecked global warming may have a dramatic impact on sea levels causing local flooding as well as regional droughts reducing food production.

To help ensure the security and prosperity of our future, Median Wind has developed an innovative technology to generate electricity without emitting any CO₂. Instead of relying on the combustion of fossil fuels, Median Wind extracts energy from the wind, including the air displaced by vehicles on the highway. Every 1,000 kWh generated from the wind saves 567 pounds of carbon that would have been emitted to our atmosphere from coal-fired sources. One hundred miles of Median Wind highway would therefore prevent almost 10,000 tons of carbon emissions during every year it operates.

Median Wind’s power highways also help reduce carbon emissions in another important way: They make other alternative energy sources feasible. The backbone of the wind turbine system is a smart grid for transmitting power along the highway median. This grid makes it possible to integrate other new sources of carbon-free alternative energy, like solar or geothermal, that may be too isolated from the existing electrical grid. As the Median Wind Smart Grid is deployed across our highway system, it will have the extra capacity to carry additional power and distribute it where the need is greatest.