Amazing "Solar Roadways" , and if they drove on Solar Panels ?

Solar Roadways project is a solar road that will add to the ecological characteristics pathways cars.

If I told you that tomorrow we may have routes that behave like solar panels and we ride on glass, you believe me? This may sound crazy but two Americans, Julie and Scott Brusaw, decided to embark on this crazy project 'solar road' creating Solar Roadways. It is tempting to consider these two inventors as wacky characters but the U.S. Department of Transportation has decided to believe in offering in 2009, the sum of $ 100,000 for the project to progress.

The Road Ahead
Since then, five years have passed, five years during which Julie and Scott Brusaw had time to improve their system, to introduce American and winning numerous innovation contest. What now this' solar road? First, it should have the same characteristics as a conventional way: resistance to vehicle weight, equivalent to asphalt adhesion ... But this, add a few more technological features like the ability to slightly heating the tiles that form the road in order to prevent frost or snow making.

Another important feature was implemented: the treatment of surface water. Surface water is the result of precipitation (rain) and it is a real cause of pollution because too badly at the moment. Solar Roadways planned along its 'trenches' that serve to cable routing, a location to collect, convey and treat the water. To this, add the function that seems obvious to a solar road: generate energy. At the moment, the two inventors tested a small portion of their road for one year, during which time she was able to resist weathering unabated.

So that the Solar Roadways become a standard in the future, the inventors have launched an Indiegogo campaign. They require financial assistance ... 1 million. Admittedly, this is an impressive sum, but who knows, maybe the solar road will be a standard in the future? Roads, aging, represent real challenges because they could be improved to provide more than just a surface on which it rolls, evidenced by these routes can recharge the bus running through it .