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Continuing the renewables theme, Ucilia Wang's piece on the couple pioneering solar road surfaces attracted simultaneous applause and criticism, while Marc Gunther presented us with the latest thinking on biotech crops with health benefits.
In "Solar Road," a vast, lonely sweep of flat land is crossed by a road whose single streetlight cuts a dramatic swath, revealing salt flats in the distance and a glimmer of city lights at the far right -- it's a photograph that makes a landscape into a spectacular stage.
Also, in December 2016, France opened a roughly 1 km solar road in partnership with French company Colas.
The video shows Brusaw building some of these solar road panels in what looks like a garage.
They claim that if the US built a nationwide solar road infrastructure it would generate more electricity than the country currently uses.
This has affected other solar roadway development in the United States, halting a planned 2017 Missouri solar road project near Conway, due to what Solar Roadways calls "a variety of complex red tape factors".
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Will part of our driving future be solar cars on solar roads?
However, this project is specifically focused on developing solar roads, and not fully integrated solar highways, in order to increase renewable energy consumption in the area.
There have been many attempts to create parts of smart highways, with specific efforts focusing on solar roads and smart traffic infrastructure projects.
He pours some cold water on the solar roads concept, arguing that a kinetic product will prove more economical and reliable as an energy-generating source in areas where there is high traffic flow than using solar.
Solar roads are likely not the first-best option, nor perhaps even the 10th-best option, for widespread capture of solar energy.
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