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Solar Powered, Smart Roads

By on January 24, 2013 in Ideas

Could you imagine what it would be like to drive across solar panels instead of the asphalt traditionally used for roads? If Scott Brusaw has his way, we will soon find out.

Scott is currently working on a type of “smart” road that is solar powered, according to CNN. At $4.4 million per mile, this unique road would be able to melt snow and ice before it could collect, and it would also be lit up using LED lights instead of paint.

Solar cells inside its glass surface would allow the roadway to act as a giant solar power generator, fueling embedded heating elements and making plows and other snow removal equipment unnecessary.

The heating elements would work “like in the rear window of your car,” said the inventor, who intends to experiment with temperature settings during the next stages of the development process.

Electricity generated by the highway could be used to recharge electric vehicles and to power lights and LED warning signs along the road itself.

In fact, Brusaw believes that solar roadways — if widely accepted — could eventually generate clean electricity around the world, eliminating the need for fossil fuels and saving the planet from global climate change.

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  • http://diysolarpowersystem.info/ DIY Solar Power System

    What an amazing idea, and it’s probably within the realm of possibility too. If people can dream up this kind of profit, why can’t anyone invent cheap, easy-to-install solar panels for household use? Currently people have to buy a complicated set of components and upload a good deal of know-how if they want to install solar power in their homes cheaply.

  • CHARLES NJOROGE

    with the current high electricity rates this is one idea one can borrow .
    More of this information can be found here

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