Solar Roadways: how to turn roads into power stations Bashny.Net

Cars that travel the roads all over the world, during its movement are spending a huge amount of energy. But American engineer Scott Brusaw (Scott Brusaw) offers to turn the roads into sources of endless power. System Solar Roadways is one of the most promising in terms of concept projects in all of the modern "green" energy.



While in the barren Mojave desert grows a giant solar power plant Ivanpah, engineers worldwide are equally promising projects for the transformation of "green" energy in the main means of obtaining electricity on the planet. One of these developers is American Scott Brusaw who created the project with the name Solar Roadways.





The concept of Solar Roadways involves the transformation of roads in the plant. After the asphalt on them can be replaced with solar panels, covered with a transparent material that transmits light.

During the bright part of the day roads will produce electricity by receiving the light from the Sun. And, given the huge size of the road network of the United States of America, this will allow the country to almost completely get rid of the traditional sources of energy — hydro, nuclear, etc.





Of course, this will require a huge investment, comparable, perhaps, with annual U.S. budget, but in the future it will bring endless amounts of use, and the mentioned above money back with interest.
The technology of Solar Roadways involves not just the installation of solar panels on the highway instead of the asphalt, turning the road into a intelligent multi-functional system, which, for example, will be able to charge the batteries of electric vehicles, specify the led panels direction or even warn drivers about people or wild animals that came out into the roadway can cause traffic accidents.

These new roads will be able also themselves to clear the snow from warming to a certain temperature. Moreover, the use of Solar Roadways can not only on long-distance highway, but in private practice, turning it into a solar power plant walkways in the courtyards of houses, playgrounds, Parking lots, and other horizontal surfaces.

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