Comments on: New Technology Could Make Roads a Solar Energy Source http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Solar Highways Turn Public Liabilities into Assets | CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-101992 Solar Highways Turn Public Liabilities into Assets | CleanTechnica Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:58:08 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-101992 [...] to prevent fires from breaking out and making a mess of travel. And, looking forward, there are multiple proposals for using the roads themselves as solar collectors. In fact, our roads are currently [...] [...] to prevent fires from breaking out and making a mess of travel. And, looking forward, there are multiple proposals for using the roads themselves as solar collectors. In fact, our roads are currently [...]

]]> By: Solar Panels Bike Lanes/Roads Coming to Holland – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-97204 Solar Panels Bike Lanes/Roads Coming to Holland – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:01:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-97204 [...] solar energy that hits our roadways, since we’ve covered some of these a few times (see: New Technology Could Make Roads a Solar Energy Source; Oregon Launching First Solar Highway in the US; Solar Power Roads: Harvesting Energy from [...] [...] solar energy that hits our roadways, since we’ve covered some of these a few times (see: New Technology Could Make Roads a Solar Energy Source; Oregon Launching First Solar Highway in the US; Solar Power Roads: Harvesting Energy from [...]

]]> By: Mark Dixon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2159 Mark Dixon Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:21:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2159 You can check out a video all about Solar Roadways here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PeSm6_hTE The YERT team met Scott Brusaw, the founder, at his home in Idaho and made this video. Pretty interesting-- he gets into detail about some of the nuanced pros and cons about the project. Pretty level-headed guy... You can check out a video all about Solar Roadways here:

The YERT team met Scott Brusaw, the founder, at his home in Idaho and made this video. Pretty interesting– he gets into detail about some of the nuanced pros and cons about the project. Pretty level-headed guy…

]]> By: Mark Dixon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-18957 Mark Dixon Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:21:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-18957 You can check out a video all about Solar Roadways here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PeSm6_hTE The YERT team met Scott Brusaw, the founder, at his home in Idaho and made this video. Pretty interesting-- he gets into detail about some of the nuanced pros and cons about the project. Pretty level-headed guy... You can check out a video all about Solar Roadways here:

The YERT team met Scott Brusaw, the founder, at his home in Idaho and made this video. Pretty interesting– he gets into detail about some of the nuanced pros and cons about the project. Pretty level-headed guy…

]]> By: Sandeep AR http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2158 Sandeep AR Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:05:43 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2158 Very very intresting!!!! I need more informations... Very very intresting!!!!

I need more informations…

]]> By: Sandeep AR http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-18956 Sandeep AR Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:05:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-18956 Very very intresting!!!! I need more informations... Very very intresting!!!!

I need more informations…

]]> By: Nik http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2157 Nik Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:22:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2157 What will happen when rainwater seeps thru the asphalt pavement ? What will happen when rainwater seeps thru the asphalt pavement ?

]]> By: Nik http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-18955 Nik Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:22:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-18955 What will happen when rainwater seeps thru the asphalt pavement ? What will happen when rainwater seeps thru the asphalt pavement ?

]]> By: becky http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2156 becky Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:59:10 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2156 This sounds promising although I have been wondering about the opposite - keep urban hotspots cool by using less heat absorbing asphault (similar to white roofs). If the heat can actually be used though, this is a good idea. How can you be sure that the heat collectors will always work? Is this a passive thing? You wouldn't want them to malfunction and end up with super hot asphault - imagine the waste of energy during traffic jams (everyone blasting their ac's and the extra heat added to the environment), or what would happen if your car broke down on the freeway and you were surrounded by blazing hot asphault. Another question - what does the color black do to light to turn it into heat? This is a dumb question, I realize...absorbs something which is energy...the black color soaks up more that would otherwise reflect off and go back out to the atmosphere? My question is, does a black pavement really add to the overall heat of the system, or just concentrate it in one place? Is the whole earth hotter or is is just redistributed? (hotter urban areas=cooler other places, or what?? This sounds promising although I have been wondering about the opposite – keep urban hotspots cool by using less heat absorbing asphault (similar to white roofs). If the heat can actually be used though, this is a good idea. How can you be sure that the heat collectors will always work? Is this a passive thing? You wouldn’t want them to malfunction and end up with super hot asphault – imagine the waste of energy during traffic jams (everyone blasting their ac’s and the extra heat added to the environment), or what would happen if your car broke down on the freeway and you were surrounded by blazing hot asphault. Another question – what does the color black do to light to turn it into heat? This is a dumb question, I realize…absorbs something which is energy…the black color soaks up more that would otherwise reflect off and go back out to the atmosphere? My question is, does a black pavement really add to the overall heat of the system, or just concentrate it in one place? Is the whole earth hotter or is is just redistributed? (hotter urban areas=cooler other places, or what??

]]> By: becky http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-18954 becky Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:59:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-18954 This sounds promising although I have been wondering about the opposite - keep urban hotspots cool by using less heat absorbing asphault (similar to white roofs). If the heat can actually be used though, this is a good idea. How can you be sure that the heat collectors will always work? Is this a passive thing? You wouldn't want them to malfunction and end up with super hot asphault - imagine the waste of energy during traffic jams (everyone blasting their ac's and the extra heat added to the environment), or what would happen if your car broke down on the freeway and you were surrounded by blazing hot asphault. Another question - what does the color black do to light to turn it into heat? This is a dumb question, I realize...absorbs something which is energy...the black color soaks up more that would otherwise reflect off and go back out to the atmosphere? My question is, does a black pavement really add to the overall heat of the system, or just concentrate it in one place? Is the whole earth hotter or is is just redistributed? (hotter urban areas=cooler other places, or what?? This sounds promising although I have been wondering about the opposite – keep urban hotspots cool by using less heat absorbing asphault (similar to white roofs). If the heat can actually be used though, this is a good idea. How can you be sure that the heat collectors will always work? Is this a passive thing? You wouldn’t want them to malfunction and end up with super hot asphault – imagine the waste of energy during traffic jams (everyone blasting their ac’s and the extra heat added to the environment), or what would happen if your car broke down on the freeway and you were surrounded by blazing hot asphault. Another question – what does the color black do to light to turn it into heat? This is a dumb question, I realize…absorbs something which is energy…the black color soaks up more that would otherwise reflect off and go back out to the atmosphere? My question is, does a black pavement really add to the overall heat of the system, or just concentrate it in one place? Is the whole earth hotter or is is just redistributed? (hotter urban areas=cooler other places, or what??

]]> By: Greg Tibbits http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2155 Greg Tibbits Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:22:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2155 This could turn every blacktop road in the country into solar thermal energy distribution infrastructure. Jobs jobs jobs enabling it all too. Hopefully no imported cheap labor from south of the border will be demanded by US construction contractors to get the projects accomplished. This could turn every blacktop road in the country into solar thermal energy distribution infrastructure. Jobs jobs jobs enabling it all too. Hopefully no imported cheap labor from south of the border will be demanded by US construction contractors to get the projects accomplished.

]]> By: Greg Tibbits http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-18953 Greg Tibbits Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:22:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-18953 This could turn every blacktop road in the country into solar thermal energy distribution infrastructure. Jobs jobs jobs enabling it all too. Hopefully no imported cheap labor from south of the border will be demanded by US construction contractors to get the projects accomplished. This could turn every blacktop road in the country into solar thermal energy distribution infrastructure. Jobs jobs jobs enabling it all too. Hopefully no imported cheap labor from south of the border will be demanded by US construction contractors to get the projects accomplished.

]]> By: Greg Tibbits http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2154 Greg Tibbits Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:14:21 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2154 Sounds like a great idea! My pop, an old rancher, just covered a labarinth of zig zagging PVC water pipes he built, running from his electric water heater and pump to his swimming pool, with black roofing material using a few two by fours to hold the thick heavy duty asphalt sheets down. The automatic thermostate during the mornings, early evenings, and during the fall and spring months, now turns on the grid electric heater about 20% less than without the black thermal heating from direct So. Cal hot sunlight. Ever try to walk across an asphalt road or sidewalk barefoot? Only Zen masters or masochists need try. Fantastic - Global Warming problem of heat expanding roads yield clean heat energy producing. Sounds like a great idea! My pop, an old rancher, just covered a labarinth of zig zagging PVC water pipes he built, running from his electric water heater and pump to his swimming pool, with black roofing material using a few two by fours to hold the thick heavy duty asphalt sheets down. The automatic thermostate during the mornings, early evenings, and during the fall and spring months, now turns on the grid electric heater about 20% less than without the black thermal heating from direct So. Cal hot sunlight.

Ever try to walk across an asphalt road or sidewalk barefoot? Only Zen masters or masochists need try.

Fantastic – Global Warming problem of heat expanding roads yield clean heat energy producing.

]]> By: Greg Tibbits http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-18952 Greg Tibbits Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:14:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-18952 Sounds like a great idea! My pop, an old rancher, just covered a labarinth of zig zagging PVC water pipes he built, running from his electric water heater and pump to his swimming pool, with black roofing material using a few two by fours to hold the thick heavy duty asphalt sheets down. The automatic thermostate during the mornings, early evenings, and during the fall and spring months, now turns on the grid electric heater about 20% less than without the black thermal heating from direct So. Cal hot sunlight. Ever try to walk across an asphalt road or sidewalk barefoot? Only Zen masters or masochists need try. Fantastic - Global Warming problem of heat expanding roads yield clean heat energy producing. Sounds like a great idea! My pop, an old rancher, just covered a labarinth of zig zagging PVC water pipes he built, running from his electric water heater and pump to his swimming pool, with black roofing material using a few two by fours to hold the thick heavy duty asphalt sheets down. The automatic thermostate during the mornings, early evenings, and during the fall and spring months, now turns on the grid electric heater about 20% less than without the black thermal heating from direct So. Cal hot sunlight.

Ever try to walk across an asphalt road or sidewalk barefoot? Only Zen masters or masochists need try.

Fantastic – Global Warming problem of heat expanding roads yield clean heat energy producing.

]]> By: Philo Betto http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/18/new-technology-could-make-roads-a-solar-energy-source/#comment-2153 Philo Betto Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:46:51 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=885#comment-2153 "Pretty soon, you might just appreciate your local highway a little more." No, no I wont. “Pretty soon, you might just appreciate your local highway a little more.”

No, no I wont.

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