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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. |
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We're in the middle of a revolution. Most people will only realize it when it's almost over. Over the past few years, many graphs have been worth thousands of words on the rise of solar power. It's almost impossible to overstate how important the revolution that is happening right now is, and like most transitions, most people will only realize what's going on after it's mostly over. But not you guys and gals, you are ahead of the curve, and you're grasping the importance of all this. In fact, I'm sure that many of you are driving this progress forward and helping it happen! The chart above clearly shows that all of the solar power that we've installed on the planet until about 10 years ago basically didn't amount to anything compared to what has been built in recent years. At some magical threshold, the price of solar per watt (in orange) hit some tipping point and installation exploded (the blue part), dwarfing anything from the past. And the beauty of having exponential growth on your side is that very quickly, even the current blue spike will look tiny. In 2020 or 2030 we'll look back on 2015 and it'll barely register as the beginning of the curve on the chart. Here are a few other very telling charts that clearly show why solar will take over the world: Read more: click image or title. Need funding for your solar project? http://www.business-funding-insider.com/international-investment-bank-looking-for-projects.html Via Marc Kneepkens
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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?