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Energy Generating, Self-Heating Solar Roadway Unveiled

Posted March 18, 2010 9:54 AM

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The makers of the Solar Roadway just got a little closer to their dream of making every road in the United States a high-tech thruway that carries more than just cars. They've completed their first prototype and unveiled the photographs of the revolutionary energy-generating road surface. If installed on a real thoroughfare the Solar Roadway would carry vehicles, generate electricity for messages to drivers, self-heat to melt snow and ice, and deliver high speed phone and internet cables to the front steps of every home.

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03/19/2010 12:05 AM

What a hoot!

That's not visionary; it's hallucinatory.

No wonder funding is short.

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03/19/2010 10:05 AM

That's not visionary; it's hallucinatory.

What a great phrase you've coined! Can I have your permission to use it?

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03/19/2010 2:07 PM

Go right ahead!

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