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Building a Sustainable ‘Highway of the Future’
June 8, 2017 /
Just past the Alabama border, in a bit of rural Georgia filled with manufacturing plants and distribution warehouses, there’s an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 where new technologies are being tested for what could be a green highway of the future.
The long-term goal is to build the world’s first sustainable road, a highway that could create its own clean, renewable energy and generate income by selling power to utility companies, while producing no stormwater runoff or other pollution and eliminating traffic deaths.
By Jenni Bergal
Full Story: http://www.governing.com/news/headlines/stl-sustainable-highway-of-the-future.html
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