SOLAR ROADS

Solar Roads is an idea whose time has come

No more ice and snow on roads.  Its heated. Lit up signage, in roads and crosswalks, etc.

When I watched these videos about solar roads, it made sense to me.  Its common sense.  This is a solution for the future. It places solar panels in a place / position that is NON-intrusive to our current world. When I drive by and see solar panels on acres of land, well, that's an environmental impact.   If I saw these same solar panels engineered to be placed in a roadway and vehicles can travel on top of these, that would not be an environmental impact, but a benefit.  Imagine the electricity that such a roadway or freeway could generate.  

It has been estimated that if all roads in the USA were covered in solar panels with only 15% efficiency, it would generate more than three times the annual USA electrical usage.

So I give this idea a hearty thumbs up.  Instead of the petroleum-based asphalt as an overlay, use these.    Then it may even be possible to run the electric vehicles we all dream of using someday, and put the gasoline engine to rest.  If the sun can power all this, why not?
 Federal Government gives them $750,000:
www.deseretnews.com/article/700164568/N-Idaho-company-gets-750K-for-solar-parking-lot.html?nm=1

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Indiegogo raises over $2.2 M for their Idaho company: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways#/

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