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Solar Energy Via TechinBiz 
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Engineers in the Netherlands say energy-generating road surface is more successful than expected, six months into trial. Via TechinBiz
Richard Platt's insight:
In the first six months since it was installed, the panels beneath the road have generated over 3,000kwh. This is enough to provide a single-person household with electricity for a year. "If we translate this to an annual yield, we expect more than the 70kwh per square metre per year," says Sten de Wit, spokesman for SolaRoad, which has been developed by a public-private partnership. "We predicted [this] as an upper limit in the laboratory stage. We can therefore conclude that it was a successful first half year." The project took cheap mass-produced solar panels and sandwiched them between layers of glass, silicon rubber and concrete. "This version can have a fire brigade truck of 12 tonnes without any damage," said Arian de Bondt, a director at Ooms Civiel, one of consortium of companies working together on the pilot project.
chris's curator insight,
May 12, 2015 6:35 PM
Never thought of this but it makes sense, given the heat asphalt absorbs daily. |
Been looking at this solar panels on homes technology for the last 10 years, and I think we have a better than Elon Musk's solar roof tiles with the example that I've seen here in this video, and by the looks of it, a whole lot less to put up, maintain and get the benefit from and that all-important payback for your investment (your ROI) for putting these solar panels up...Have a look and let me know what you think?