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Route 66 – America’s first public solar road

U.S.’s First Public Solar Road Will Roll Out On Route 66

Solar streets are finally having their moment in the sun http://www.curbed.com/2016/6/21/11976224/solar-panel-street-pavers-missouri-energy-route-66 BY BARBARA ELDREDGE  @BARBARAELDREDGE JUN 21, 2016 You can get your kicks on Route 66. But soon, you might get your energy there too. Missouri is rolling out a set of energy-generating photovoltaic pavers along a section of the famous highway—the first such panels on a public right of way in the U.S.

The street pavers were developed by Solar Roadways, a company created by inventors Scott and Julie Brusaw which raised more than $2.2 million in crowdfunding in 2014 to bring their technology to market. The Brusaws claim that replacing all of America’s roads and parking lots with their solar pavers would generate more than three times the country’s electricity consumption in 2009.

Missouri’s transportation department is set to launch their own crowdfunding campaign to support their energy experiment, and expects the hexagonal solar panels to be fully installed and operational by the end of the year.

June 29, 2016 - Posted by | decentralised, renewable, USA

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