{"id":9246,"date":"2014-06-03T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9246"},"modified":"2014-06-03T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:09:06","slug":"solar-freakin-roadways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/solar-freakin-roadways.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar freakin&#8217; roadways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKO-sDdJzTw\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/iKO-sDdJzTw\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/intro.shtml\"><br \/>\nSolar Roadways<\/a> has raised $1,884,633 in six weeks from Earth Day to now<br \/>\non a goal of $1,000,000 in indiegogo<br \/>\n(which was already<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/solar-roadways-tops-1-5-million-sets-indiegogo-record\/\"><br \/>\na record for most contributors<\/a> with 36,000 people at $1.5 million).<br \/>\nYes, to all those who have asked me, I think it could work.<br \/>\nAdd solar roadways to rooftop solar and solar farms and wind,<br \/>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/epa-will-propose-a-rule-to-cut-emissions-from-existing-coal-plants-by-up-to-30-percent\/2014\/06\/02\/f37f0a10-e81d-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html\"><br \/>\nthe EPA&#8217;s new CO2 rule<\/a> (which doesn&#8217;t even do much about coal for years<br \/>\nand does nothing about about &#8220;natural&#8221; gas)<br \/>\nwill seem like a quaint baby step in a few years after this happens:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\n<p>\nEveryone has power. No more power shortages, no more roaming power<br \/>\noutages, no more need to burn coal (50% of greenhouse gases). Less<br \/>\nneed for fossil fuels and less dependency upon foreign oil. Much<br \/>\nless pollution. How about this for a long term advantage: an<br \/>\nelectric road allows all-electric vehicles to recharge anywhere:<br \/>\nrest stops, parking lots, etc. They would then have the same range<br \/>\nas a gasoline-powered vehicle. Internal combustion engines would<br \/>\nbecome obsolete. Our dependency on oil would come to an abrupt end.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iKO-sDdJzTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nvWTaqUvsfA\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/nvWTaqUvsfA\/mqdefault.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nvWTaqUvsfA\"><br \/>\nScott Brusaw&#8217;s TED<small><sup>x<\/sup><\/small><br \/>\ntalk<\/a> includes engineering solar roads to<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/water.shtml\"><br \/>\ndeal with stormwater better, double-purposing the cable channels<\/a> they have to have<br \/>\nanyway to transmit the generated electricity.<br \/>\nThat could help with<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/videos-flooding-study-by-army-corps-of-engineers-vcc-2014-05-06.html\"><br \/>\nthe flooding problem we have around here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd he talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/materials.shtml\">making road support structures out of<br \/>\nrecycled landfill trash<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf they can work out how to do that without it leaching into that stormwater,<br \/>\nit would be a better solution than<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/landfill-is-in-aquifer-recharge-zone.html\"><br \/>\npiling up trash on top of an aquifer recharge zone<\/a> like we do now.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/solar-roadways\"><br \/>\nsome reasons I think solar roadways could work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\"><p>\n<H4><br \/>\nDid you know:<br \/>\n<\/H4><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nSolar Roadways has received two phases of funding from the U.S.<br \/>\nFederal Highway Administration for research and development of a<br \/>\npaving system that will pay for itself over its lifespan. We are<br \/>\nabout to wrap up our Phase II contract (to build a prototype parking<br \/>\nlot) and now need to raise funding for production.<\/p>\n<li>\nOur glass surface has been tested for traction, load testing, and<br \/>\nimpact resistance testing in civil engineering laboratories around<br \/>\nthe country, and exceeded all requirements.<\/p>\n<li>\nSolar Roadways is a modular system that will modernize our aging<br \/>\ninfrastructure with an intelligent system that can become the new<br \/>\nSmart Grid. We won the Community Award of $50,000 by getting the<br \/>\nmost votes in GE&#8217;s Ecomagination Challenge for &#8220;Powering the Grid&#8221;<br \/>\nin 2010. We had the most votes again in their 2011 Ecomagination<br \/>\nChallenge for &#8220;Powering the Home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<li>\nOn August 21, 2013, Solar Roadways was selected by their peers as a<br \/>\nFinalist in the World Technology Award For Energy, presented in<br \/>\nassociation with TIME, Fortune, CNN, and Science.<\/p>\n<li>\nSolar Roadways was chosen by Google to be one of their Moonshots in<br \/>\nMay of 2013. Solar Roadways was chosen as a finalist in the IEEE Ace<br \/>\nAwards in 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<li>\nSolar Roadways has given presentations around the country including:<br \/>\nTEDx Sacramento, Google&#8217;s Solve for X at Google&#8217;s NYC Headquarters,<br \/>\nNASA, Keynote Speaker for the International Parking Institute&#8217;s<br \/>\nConference and much more&#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/videos-flooding-study-by-army-corps-of-engineers-vcc-2014-05-06.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/0537e5e35135e6e6a60f2273442cfa04.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nSolar Roadways is tackling more than solar energy: The FHWA tasked<br \/>\nus with addressing the problem of stormwater. Currently, over 50% of<br \/>\nthe pollution in U.S. waterways comes from stormwater. We have<br \/>\ncreated a section in our Cable Corridors for storing, treating, and<br \/>\nmoving stormwater.<\/p>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/water.shtml\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border;none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/images\/water.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe implementation of our concept on a grand scale could create<br \/>\nthousands of jobs in the U.S. and around the world. It could allow<br \/>\nus all the ability to manufacture our way out of our current<br \/>\neconomic crisis.\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAs I mentioned at the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/slight-changes-at-southern-company-so-2014-05-28.html\"><br \/>\nSouthern Company stockholder meeting<\/a><br \/>\n(video still to come from SO),<br \/>\nif big utilities like SO don&#8217;t get moving on solar and wind power<br \/>\nthrough a smart grid, the Google of that new industry may well be<br \/>\nGoogle itself.<br \/>\nAnd Google already recognized Solar Roadways as a Moonshot worth taking.<\/p>\n<p>\nAre Scott and Julie Brusaw the Wright Brothers of a solar smart grid?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nIf one man, Elon Musk, can successfully deploy affordable space travel (SpaceX),<br \/>\nfinance-to-installation solar panels (Solar City),<br \/>\nand electric cars (Tesla),<br \/>\nmaybe one couple can successfully deploy solar roadways.<br \/>\nObscure science fiction reference:<br \/>\nIf Elon Musk is D.D. Harriman (the man who sold the moon),<br \/>\nmaybe the Brusaws are Archibald Douglas and Mary Lou Martin<br \/>\n(inventors of a process that popularized solar power).<\/p>\n<p>\nA couple of million dollars to find out if Solar Roadways work<br \/>\nis dirt cheap compared to<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/category\/pipeline-2\"><br \/>\nmore than $3 billion dollars for an unneeded, hazardous, land-grabbing<br \/>\nfracked methane pipeline<\/a><br \/>\nor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/georgia-power-wants-more-new-water-for-vogtle-nukes-than-savannah-uses-ga-epd-2014-05-08.html\"><br \/>\nmore than $8.3 billion for a couple more white-elephant nukes<br \/>\nsucking up more water from the Savannah River than the city of Savannah uses<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/main.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solarroadways.com\/images\/logo.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nSolar Freakin&#8217; Roadways could do even better than not using any water<br \/>\nto generate power: they could help save stormwater while generating power<br \/>\nand recycling landfill garbage.<\/p>\n<p>\nSolar roads must roll.<br \/>\nGo Brusaws!<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar Roadways has raised $1,884,633 in six weeks from Earth Day to now on a goal of $1,000,000 in indiegogo (which was already a record for most contributors with 36,000 people at $1.5 million). Yes, to all those who have asked me, I think it could work. 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