Monday, January 02, 2012

No more snowplows or icy roads? - The Globe and Mail

No more snowplows or icy roads? - The Globe and Mail:

This is so cool it has to be posted on FinanceProfessor, even if not per se a finance piece.


" Mr. Brusaw, an electrical engineer, will seek to demonstrate that his smart solar road panels have the capacity to convert the U.S. highway system (and, by extension, Canada’s) into a huge power generator theoretically capable of producing three times as much electricity as the U.S. now consumes – and almost as much as the entire world now consumes. By Mr. Brusaw’s calculations, this highway-based power generator would produce so much electricity that highways could be heated, all winter long, to 40 degrees Fahrenheit"

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