Solar Roadways Wins GE Competition
The first edition of GE’s Ecoimagination Challenge has a winner. After 3.800-plus applications, and 74.000 votes, Solar Roadways has been announced as winner of the $50.000 award.
Solar Roadways, has the audacious plan to replace America’s asphalt roads with textured, glass solar panels that could collect energy, distribute it and simultaneously serve up LED-powered signs. According to Solar Roadways’ founder Scott Brusaw, the idea is to install a massive solar panel network laid out end-to-end from California to New York that would dramatically change the energy landscape and the country’s literal landscape.
GE’s Ecoimagination Challenge aims to come with innovative solutions for the related to sustainable energy systems, divided in three categories: Create - renewable energy, Connect - grid efficiency, Use - buildings.
Via TechCrunch
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