Future Roadways to be Paved With Lighted Heated Solar Panels?
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Artist's rendition of Sandpoint, Idaho - Home of Solar Roadways
Imagine driving on a glass roadway with lighted markings and warning signs. A roadway that is generating and delivering electric power, high speed internet directly to your home and providing continuous, tower free cell phone service. A roadway that clears itself of snow and ice, and filters and processes storm water before delivering it to an irrigation system
Yes, just imagine, that is for sure the future. But you wont have to imagine for very long, because the future has arrived. Delivered by Scott and Julie Brusaw an engineering couple from Sandpoint Idaho. The Brusaws have developed a road surface system that does all of those things and is in the process of actually building prototypes for parking lots, driveways and side walks and has received grants from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Solar Roadways, the company name for Scott and Julies brainchild, has raised $2 million in donations through Indiegogo crowd-funding to take the solar panel product to its next stage of development.
The ultimate plan is to replace the world's roadways, sidewalks and others surfaces over time with four inch-thick panels that could collect enough solar energy to power the planet.
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