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Solar Covered Roads

By Daniel Miessler in Technology
Updated: December 17, 2019 Created: July 3, 2014

solar-roadways From Techcrunch:

Here’s an idea crazy enough that it just might work: Pave the streets with solar-powered panels that have their own built-in heat and LED lights. That’s what Scott and Julie Brusaw hope to accomplish with their ongoing Solar Roadways project, which they just funded through a hugely popular crowdfunding campaign.

Obviously a great idea. The first thing that occurred to me, though, was theft. Seems like these panels would:

  1. Be worth something, and
  2. Be easy to steal

I fantasize about a planet that’s powered by CURRENT sun energy, though (as opposed to the sun energy stored in old earth), and this is definitely a part of that.


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