Paving Roads With Solar Panels

This parking lot is paved with solar panels image courtesy scott and julie brusaw the idaho couple who created an innovative road surface made of solar panels is back with a prototype and they re.

Paving roads with solar panels.

Just this past year colas installed 30 thousand square feet of solar panel road in tourouvre au perche a small village in normandy france. Solar roads have already have been tested in a number of environments. Solar roadway is another company looking at building roads with solar panels and it installed a small number of panels at the route 66 welcome center in conway missouri earlier this year. For many environmentalists paving roadways with solar panels sounds like a great idea.

In the united. Cover your roads with solar panels and reap bountiful green energy. Colas says that 215 square feet of wattway will provide enough energy to power a single french home aside. Welcome to solar roadways solar roadways sr is a modular system of specially engineered solar panels that can be walked and driven upon.

The premise is simple and almost too good to be true. Platio is paving the way to aesthetic space saving and green power sources. It would save a lot of money roads would essentially pay for their own construction and maintenance by generating. Furthermore solar roads won t have the same type of air circulation a roof solar panel would have.

Our panels contain led lights to create lines and signage without paint. Since launching a viral crowdfunding campaign a few years ago for their. Tests provide disappointing results. In effect the paving stones would be electricity generating solar panels.

Why solar panel roads just might be a genius idea. For businesses for office buildings shopping malls and other commercial buildings the platio solar pavement offers a ready to use solution to harvest additional green energy without reducing valuable exterior surfaces. The panels have microprocessors which makes them intelligent.