solar highway Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Four Methods Of Generating Electricity For Powering Highways, Proposed By Rhode Island Researchers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/highway-solar-power-20101110/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/highway-solar-power-20101110/#respond Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11738 Do you recognize the image of yourself jumping on your toes on the beach, in a hurry to reach the shore and get to the cool water. Well, the same happens to the asphalt our cars roll on. Why not use that heat to power things on highways and thus save tons of carbon dioxide a year? A Rhode Island University team of engineering researchers studied four methods that we could implement to generate energy for our highways for different purposes.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/highway-solar-power-20101110/feed/ 0 11738 Solar Roadways Giving More Details About Their Road-Embedded Solar Cells Technology https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scott-brusaw-road-solar-cells-20100831/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scott-brusaw-road-solar-cells-20100831/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:20:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=9805 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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