Society for College and University Planning
Smart, Solar, Glass Roadways
This is a brief video talking about and sharing images of the development of a 12'x12' intelligent solar roadway prototype; a roadway intended to carry communications and to generate enough power to pay for itself. Apparently, you can lock up the brakes on a glass road without destroying it. We can definitely see a campus using this as part of its overall carbon management, as well as for the smart connections. The primary researcher says that over time asphalt will become too expensive and these kinds of materials will become cost effective. The Solar Roadways project just won the GE Ecoimagination challenge prize.
Labels: futuring, Environmental Scanning, materials science, Trends, solar, Transportation, wayfinding