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