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Solar Roadways Blows Out Crowdfunding Goals

Benji Jerew — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:56:49 +0000

Solar Roadways certainly looks like a cool idea, with so many benefits, but getting such a venture off the ground, or on the ground, depending on how you look at it, could have been a difficult sell. The idea behind Solar Roadways was originally cooked up by an Idaho engineer couple, Scott and Julie Brusaw, […]

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$1 Million Could Kickstart Project That Turns US Roads Into Solar Farms

Mila Luleva — Mon, 12 May 2014 10:21:30 +0000

Wouldn’t it be amazing if all infrastructure, regardless of whether it is a building roof or a busy highway, is fitted with solar panels and generates limitless electricity? This is what a team of US engineers, Scott and Julie Brusaw, dreamed about and after quite a bit of thinking, and of course bureaucratic negotiations, they […]

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Solar Roadways Project Wins $50,000 Ecomagination Prize

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:53:29 +0000

After participating in the GE Ecomagination Challenge and winning $50,000, Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie Brusaw are much more optimistic in what concerns their Solar Roadways project, which aims to make the road produce electricity through embedded solar panels.

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Solar Roadways Giving More Details About Their Road-Embedded Solar Cells Technology

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:20:27 +0000

Scott Brusaw, an electrical engineer in Idaho, also the founder of Solar Roadways, (that we've written about earlier this month) has come up with an interesting idea that might just catch up if some key issues will be solved: making roads out of solar cells that would produce electricity and pay for themselves.

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