13 Aug
Oregon Building “Solar Highway”
With every single day that passes us, we’re inching closer and closer to the “Future” that we all thought we’d be living in when we were kids. Rumors stirring of solar powered cars, flying cars, wind powering homes, and yes, now, a solar highway. A what? Yep, a SOLAR HIGHWAY.
Basically, here is the problem: The highway systems in this country are absolute energy drains. Lights, signs and other crucial elements to the safety and navigability of our nations roads and something has to power them. In the state of Oregon, they think they might just be onto something. The world’s first highway that is going to be co-powered by solar energy is in the makings right now, and at the price of $1.3 million, it is not cheap. What it IS doing, however, is offsetting the amount of energy required to run the highway…28% of it will now be covered by solar power!
The bad news that might actually end up being good news is this: Oregon Department of Transportation believes they will need at least 20 miles more of solar installations to power the 45-million kilowatt hours a year necessary to power the states highways. And this is just one state.
Clearly this is a project that needs to spread across the entire nation and the whole rest of the world. If Every state had projects like this, think of the massive amounts of energy that could be offset! Keep your fingers crossed, and hopes high.
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