Solar Roadways: The Prototype

Hey, Solar Roadways fans! YERT is hosting a LIVE interview with Scott Brusaw - Solar Roadways' Inventor - on Monday, 12/10 at 11pm EST. Submit your questions and learn all about it right here: http://www.yert.com/DVDLaunchParty.php . It's all part of our DVD launch party via Google Hangout, with great guests and lots of fun. Hope to see you there!

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The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Co-founder Scott Brusaw has made some major steps forward since our first visit back in 2007, so we visited him again for an exclusive update on the project, including the first ever video recorded of the Solar Roadways prototype! For more information visit http://www.solarroadways.com . This Solar Roadway project is highlighted as one of many planet-friendly solutions in the feature film by YERT - Your Environmental Road Trip. To learn more about YERT, visit http://yert.com .

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[SeekayFilms]

Freakin seriously how has this not been implemented yet? I watched this like two years ago and thought it was the greatest idea I'd ever heard of.

[arman ahmed]

If you want to power your home

You have to learn to build your own solar panels

Go to google and search for:

"Top DIY Solar Palens Review"

Choose the first result(skip the adds on top)

[thefamilyk]

I hope I will live long enough to see this implemented

[simplecrs13]

It takes time to engineer...and to make them viable

[Dan Brown]

So is this for highway infrastructure only? The majority of urban infrastructure has multiple components of power/water/sewer/telecomm/ele­ctrical running under it. What happens when a watermain bursts?  Do we get a technicolour rainbow and a backhoe scraping/digging thru $10K of circuitry or just a half dozen electrical techs being paid to stand around for the entire day so they can replace the road at the end of it?

[TheFaztik]

I didnt miss that part. Just to give you an idea of how cold it is where i live: we use snow and mud tires 8-9 months a year. I never said i didnt like the idea but i would rather use it in southern Europe

[Jamie Yakscoe]

me want flying cars

[kikokazuma]

You missed the part where they mention these panels can HEAT up and melt snow/ice.

[kikokazuma]

I check on this shit daily. Wish I knew where we were with this.

[TheFaztik]

Would probably not work in Sweden

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