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Study Proposes Covering Highways With 52 Billion Solar Panels – Why not pave highways with solar panels? Welcome to Solar Roadways®

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Geosciences, and Columbia University have proposed a historic initiative they say would generate 60 percent of the electricity the world uses each year and slash carbon emissions by 28 percent. Is that crazy talk? Maybe, maybe not. Here’s the plain language summary of their study, which was published in the journal Earth’s Future on July 15, 2024.
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Welcome to Solar Roadways®
The heart of Solar Roadways is the Solar Road Panel. Hexagon in shape, this solar panel contains an onboard microprocessor which controls heating elements (to help prevent snow/ice accumulation), LEDs (to illuminate road lines, create verbiage, graphics, etc.), and communicates with other panels and vehicles wirelessly. The microprocessor monitors onboard temperature sensors and a light sensor. It uses this information to determine when to turn on the heating elements and how bright to adjust the LEDs. It also stores 8000 LED patterns that can be recalled at any time.
With funding from three U.S. Department of Transportation grants, we’ve successfully passed the following civil engineering tests performed at 3rd party university civil engineering departments:
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