Could This Invention Change The World?

Well the video won't play, but l gather it is some solar setup that blows or warms up so no snow will collect on your driveway?

That will benefit colder regions, but here, not really!

This has been posted here a while back.

It's an awesome idea, the green street/sidewalks is also more appealing than black asphalt and concrete. It could have a lot of advantages If it works on a large scale. Making it easy to recycle would also be a good idea.

BTW, I doubt this new type of road surface would reduce fossil fuels considering it's obviously made from plastic. I imagine bioplastics would quickly break down If exposed to weather & vehicle wear & tear.

No, the atranomical cost it would cost to resurface all the roads means it will never happen...

Awesome idea. One possible drawback - since they're computerized they could be vulnerable to being hacked. That could possibly pose life-threatening hazards.

There's a number of concerns with this. One is the glass will need to be kept very clean so it doesn't block the sun...Not the easiest thing to do for a road.


I think Tesla Motors/Elon Musk's advances in batteries is a much more promising tech. Soon, Tesla won't just be making batteries for cars, they'll make huge banks of batteries that energy companies can use to store vast amounts of electricity that they can generate using solar. These huge battery banks will be able to store the electricity for days, allowing the electricity to be used when the sun might not be shining.

Well, there IS a guy that has a VLOG where he looks at electronics,theory, history, and plans like this. He looked at this plan, and figured it was BUNK! For one, trying to create enough liht to have the functinality they want during the day CAN'T BE DONE! LEDs aren't powerful enough, and there isn't enough power. LINES and the like, like they currently use. HERE are a few good debunkings:


HERE is the guy I referred to:


SO the reasn why you can't see the problem is that you do not realize that it is being debunked ALL OVER! Look at the first amazon kindle. REMEMBER the MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR backstep? It was NOT color! It was NOT an LCD! WHY? They decided that INK was BETTER! YEP, they decided to use INK! It does NOT work like an LCD, or LED, but like an ETCH A SKETCH! They called it electronic ink! Electronic Paper Displays - Readable, Green, Rugged: E Ink

Steve

I love this. I have often wondered why there is no national push toward making all new roofing in construction or remodels with solar panel technology.

I think the way in to something like this would be similar... all new roads or road repairs should incorporate solar panel tech. Then with those inroads made (pun intended), there might be more motivation to fill in gaps or improve whole neighborhoods at a time.

So many people complain that projects like this are too big to be realistic. So was the original creation of the federal highway system. Not to mention putting a man on the moon, the aforementioned Panama Canal, the Great Society and many other examples that could be dredged up.

Imagine a society where solar technology became the norm - where everything we build is naturally designed to capture and deliver as much energy as it possibly can.

The infrastructure built coupled with the inevitable leaps in technology and efficiency could truly be transformational.