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Solar roads
Today I bring you a publication dedicated to solar energy, a few days ago I published about roads made of plastic which means a breakthrough in recycling, now we will discover a type of road that can provide electricity, it is solar roads. Come with me to learn more about this new technological advance.
For some time industrialized countries such as China and the United States are behind a project to solve their ecological debt, since it was thought of the possibility of converting a road into a large solar panel the possibility of getting a lot of energy through this mega device has made it viable and reliable for many private and state companies to invest in it.
The clock and its countdown, we run out of time if we do not do something to stop this catastrophe that have left the last 4 industrial revolutions, although it has allowed us to have technology to improve our lives in other aspects much more important has put at risk the survival not only of humans but of all species of the planet and all nature that is threatened by the devastation by a purely extractivist fact of resources to manufacture objects that will later be discarded.
Some of the countries where there are already prototypes of this technological marvel of the 21st century are in China, the United States, and France. Where they have managed to create some sections to show the benefits of solar roads. Currently the most innovative company in this new way of making roads is called Solar Roadways and was founded in 2006, the simple idea shook the world press, is the manufacture of modules where solar modules are inserted and with a strong coating of tempered glass, strong enough to support all types of vehicles from simple and small cars to heavy-duty trucks.
For the company Roadways the objective was to think about the figure of 53 thousand square kilometers of roads, and other similar constructions such as playgrounds, parking lots, with these spaces could generate the idea of solar panels to obtain pure and clean energy, the first attempt to consolidate this idea was made in the Idaho United States. And is that the production figure just by having all the roads of the United States is not bad at all, imagine about 14,000 million kWh in just one year of production only 4 hours a day at the time of greatest heat intensity of the sun.
Another important initiative is Wattway company that has works done in the United States, Japan, and France. It is less ambitious but would serve to save much of the electricity consumed by the public fence, the company says that only 1 kilometer of road Wattway can generate electricity for the public fence of a city of 6000 inhabitants, not bad to save electricity for the night.
In China have also been made similar projects such as the company Qilu Transportation Development Group, and have a stretch of 1 kilometer that is being tested, this solar road is built with solar panels that are coated with transparent concrete, according to the company this system can generate more than one million kWh per year, a fairly positive figure, in addition to providing electricity is expected to power the electric cars, achieving more widespread use, public wiring, domestic electricity and power to cars of the latest generation.
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