A U.S. company wants to replace it with asphalt drive-film solar cells.

The energy from the street to the total electricity consumption in the United States equal to three times cover.

A small company in the U.S. state of Idaho wants to pave all roads passable with solar cells. The company Solarroadways has just received $ 100,000 funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a prototype.

Glass layer contributes trucks

The owners introduce themselves, asphalt to be replaced by segments of three by three meters. Above is a glass layer, which carries both the heaviest trucks in the rain and offers plenty of grip. The electronics including turns sunlight into electricity and stores it in special capacitors, so-called supercapacitors. LEDs indicate the road marking and variable warnings. A bottom layer eventually will integrate the segments so that the current can flow along the street in all houses.

The owner of the road network model that can then generate more than three times as much electricity as the U.S. consumes. to pave the streets with the solar cells is therefore an economic solution to the climate problem if the segments cost nearly $ 10,000

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