Solar Power has long offered tremendous promise for transforming the world’s energy woes and yet it has always failed to lived up to expectations. However, that may soon be changing thanks to the possibility of having solar panels cover all the roads in America thereby providing the country with an unlimited supply of energy!!!!!
As Business Insider writes:
“There are about 31,251 square miles of roads, parking lots, driveways, playgrounds, bike paths, and sidewalks in the lower 48 states. If Julie and Scott Brusaw have their way, they will all someday be replaced with solar panels.
For the better part of a decade, the Idaho couple has been working on prototyping an industrial-strength panel that could withstand the weight of even the largest trucks. They now appear to have cracked the formula, developing a specially textured glass coating for the panels that can not only bear tremendous loads but also support standard tire traction.
By their reckoning, at peak installation their panelized roads could produce more than three times the electricity consumed in the U.S.”
But here’s the best part: the panels could also power the electric cars driving on them! This could be done, “through a receiver plate mounted beneath the vehicle and a transmitter plate is installed in the road.”
And that’s not all. The panels also have according to the Indiegogo campaign page “heating elements to stay snow/ice free” and “LEDs to make road lines and signage”!
So what are we waiting for?!??! Let’s make this happen!!!
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