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What about something even simpler like specially designed 1/2 inch air hoses, that when ran over, take the mechanical pressure applied, and force air out, and transfer that into electric energy? Wouldn't that be simple enough to work?

So then is there any direction you could suggest that I look into further my progress with this question?

I am trying to determine how much energy can be, in ideal circumstances, harvested from piezoelectric crystals that draw pressure from being buried in roadways. To start, we found a basic fact on Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric "...a 1 cm cube of quartz with 2 kN (500...