2oceansvibe News | South African and international news

Sponsored by RSAWeb rss
2ov Radio
  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Seth Rotherham
  • Lifestyle & Hospitality
  • Café du Cap
  • Cabine du Cap
  • Media Packs / Advertising
  • Contact
    • Contact
    • Anonymous Tips
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
Seth Rotherham
  • Today’s Great Idea: Solar Highways [VIDEO]

    10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Environment, Tech/Sci, Very Cool, World
    Related Posts
    • Amazon Will Be Making Its Own Electricity In South Africa
    • Bill Gates’ ‘Solar Breakthrough’ Could Change The World
    • Good Luck Trying To Get A Solar Power Project Up And Running In South Africa
    • Not April Fools' - Capetonians Will Be Fined Thousands If They Don’t Register Their Solar Panels
    • Things Are About to Get Hairy - This Is Why You Need To Start Watching The Solar Plane Going Around The World

    Scott Brusaw has founded Solar Roadways, a company dedicated to the design, manufacture and lobby for the legislated implementation of glass roadways that harness solar energy for the production of electricity.

    Have you ever walked on a road with your bare feet in summertime, and noticed how much heat the tar holds? That heat isn’t generated by the ambient temperature alone. The heat is an expression of solar energy, received from the sun, held in the conducive asphalt, and radiated back on to your toes.

    Brusaw’s premise is that the material that we currently build our roads with, asphalt, is petroleum-based. Ructions in middle-eastern geo-politics and an increasing natural scarcity of oil means that we will almost definitely lose our ability to build asphalt roads at some point in the next century.

    Moreover, the scarcity of oil will limit our ability to produce fuel for the vehicles that drive on the asphalt, industrial for the tyres of those self-same vehicles, and electricty to drive the onward motion of daily life, domestic and industrial. In short, we’re heading for a glass ceiling of development.

    But one of those antidotes to that glass ceiling could be glass itself. What if we substituted our asphalt highways for glass ones, embedded with the means to convert photo-energy into usable and sustainable electricity?

    They have a fairly horrific (albeit informative) website, and they are geeks to the nth degree, but that’s to be expected. They’re engineers, not marketers.

    Feel free to link to other cool solar solutions you’ve found in the comments section.

    [Video Source: YERT]

    [Thanks, Dad]

    • ← Pop Quiz: Politician Who Called For Bill Clinton’s Head Gets Caught Out Doing What?
    • Just How Tight Are Zuma And Gadaffi? →
    • Tweet
    • Tags:
    • solar energy
    • solar roadways

    Latest News

    • Lift The Ban: Struggling Wine Industry Pens Open Letter To Ramaphosa 

      [imagesource:here] Banning the sale and onsite consumption of alcohol is a double-edged...

    • Here’s The Most Tax-Effective Way To Jump-Start Your Property Portfolio

      [imagesource: Flyt] There comes a time in life when discussions around the braai, or ov...

    • New World Record: ‘Keeper Hits Longest Goal Ever Scored [Video]

      [imagesource:here] As a goalkeeper, your main job is to make it to the final whistle wi...

    • That ‘Bernie Sits’ Meme Has Just Gone To The Next Level

      [imagesource: Getty] The US presidential inauguration brought with it many good things,...

    • Zoom In On This 10 Billion Pixel Scan Of ‘Girl With A Pearl Earring’ Painting

      [imagesource:here] We're all sick to death of Zoom ("Can you hear me now? What about no...


    • 2oceansvibe Partners

    • CONTACT US
    • GOT A HOT STORY?
    • 2oceansvibe Radio
    • 2oceansvibe Media
    • Media Pack
    • Seth Rotherham
    • Café du Cap
    • Cabine du Cap
    • Cape Town City Accommodation
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Business
    • Media
    • Entertainment
    • Tech/Sci
    • World
    • Travel
    • Lifestyle
    • Sport
    • Politics
  • Follow

    2oceansvibe.com is part of the 2oceansVibe Media Group

    DMMA Logo