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Solar Roadways to Pave Route 66 in Missouri With Solar Panels

Courtney Lepping — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 19:22:49 +0000

In a section of Route 66 located in Missouri, MoDOT, the Federal Highway Administration, and Solar Roadways plans to install solar panels to serve as public roads by the year’s end. The specially-designed roadways will feature LED lights to cover the expression of “lines and signage” as well as surface heating abilities. Not only will […]

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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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The Most Inspiring Solar (Freakin’) Roadways Ad Ever

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 22 May 2014 07:33:51 +0000

Well, we’ve been writing about solar panels ever since the beginning of this site back in 2007, but never have we seen a better ad for solar power than this one. It was published on Youtube by Scott Brusaw, the Solar Roadways creator and (trust me) is worth seeing… really inspiring: Do this great guy […]

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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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Solar Roadways Reinventing How We Build Our Paths That Charge Our Cars

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:02:20 +0000

The world struggles to make a place for solar panels on the planet, and it looks like there’s not enough space for that. A team of visionaries have planned what they call the next big thing in alternative energy: solar powered roadways. Here’s a short introductory video about what these guys do with the $200 […]

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