Let’s face it, there’s nothing really sustainable about the current transportation sector in this country. While bike sharing programs and walkable, carless cities have emerged both domestically and abroad, the reliance on infrastructure – namely roads and rails, not to mention air travel – alone comes at a great cost to both the pocket book [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Solar Roadways’
Making Road Construction More Environmentally Friendly
July 9th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Economics, Eric Wilson, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation 
Tags: Bike Sharing, Carless Cities, Coal, Environment, Lifecycle, Natural Gas, Solar Roadways, USGBC 
No Comments »First GE Ecomagination Challenge Award Goes to Solar Roadways
October 14th, 2010 Justin Manger “There’s 25,000 square miles of road surfaces, parking lots, and driveways in the lower 48 states. If we covered that with solar panels with just a 15% efficiency, we’d produce 3 times more energy than this country produces on an annual basis.” – Solar Roadways founder Scott Brusaw We first mentioned Solar Roadways back in [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Green Products, Justin Manger, Local Energy/Food, Recylcing, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Alternative Energy, Cars, Electric Vehicles, Electricity Generation, Energy Conservation, Green Product, Green Technology, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Solar Roadways No Comments »LEED-like Standards for Road Construction
January 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson Following on the heals of last week’s update about Solar Roadways comes news of an organization called Greenroads that hopes to bring US Green Building Council-like standards to road construction. The USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification represents an industry-wide set of standards for green building. Greenroads aims to develop a list [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Green Building, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: LEED, Lifecycle, Solar Roadways, USGBC No Comments »Update: Solar Roadways
January 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson A few months ago Solar Roadways was the recipient of extra attention in the blogosphere. 2nd Green Revolution did its part and brought you news of this company as well. All of the attention resulted in a redesigned website with flash animation. The older version of the site (one of which can be seen
Solar Roadways: The Answer to America’s Clean Energy Future?
October 17th, 2009 Eric Wilson Some of the most innovative ideas sound preposterous when they are first proposed, but end up being revolutionary. Perhaps the solar roadway will follow suit. Or perhaps this is just another hair brained idea that will be a waste of resources. Solar Roadways is a company based in Sagle, Idaho that has designed a system [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy, Transportation Tags: Ecology of Commerce, Solar Energy, Solar Roadways No Comments »
