The Road to Masdar..

..should be paved with solar panels. Who knows whether Masdar will become the greenest futurehub of the world? With the amount being pumped into this quasi real life experiment, you'd bet that Masdar will be successful. And with all the solar panels in place on every Masdar building plan, I think there may be room for a few more.

According to AskMen: Solar roads is a concept developed by an inventor in the US called Scott Brusaw. His idea is to replace all that asphalt with solar panels laid under a high-strength plastic layer. The planned system also uses LEDs for digital striping. Right now, the tech costs about $7,000 for a 12’ x 12’ slab, so replacing America’s highways will be a costly process. That being said, replacing the 25,000 square miles of roadways across the lower 48 with solar panels would create more energy than the U.S. consumes.




Scott says:

Instead of trying to spend our way out of our economic crisis, and leaving a huge debt for our children and our grandchildren to pay, implementing the Solar Roadways would allow us to produce our way out - creating millions of “green tech” jobs while simultaneously swapping out our archaic highway system for a modern intelligent system that just happens to collect all the energy we need and pays for itself!

He certainly believes this is the future. Whether the solar panels could handle the heat for all that time is another question. But as Thomas Edison said: "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that." Abu Dhabi are tackling the sun before the oil runs out and hopefully they will succeed in the leading the the world to a whole new way of life.

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