Name: Solar FREAKIN' Roadways!
Uploaded: 2022-05-03T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 7 min
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It's technology that replaces all roadways, parking lots, sidewalks, driveways, tarmacs, bike paths, and outdoor recreation services with solar panels.

And not just lifeless, boring solar panels; smart, micro processing, interlocking, hexagonal solar units.

No more useless asphalt and concrete, just sitting there, baking in the sun, needing to repaved, and filling with potholes that are ruining the axle alignment on your sweet ride, bro.

Replace a panel at a time if damaged or malfunctioning.

They're covered with a new tempered glass material that has been designed and tested to meet all impact load and traction requirements.

Oh, and did I mention that they're also solar panels?

They generate electricity, they generate capital.

They pay for themselves, and they keep paying more 'cause we're not gonna run out of sun for like 15 billion years.

That lowers the cost of energy, unlike those bills in the mail that keep going up.

Everyone can theoretically drive an electric car with no pollution and a minimal carbon footprint.

Can you imagine how good our cities would smell?

Excuse me, young man, am I being led to believe that this thing is some sort of...thing?

And clean energy is only as primary function.

Grab a notepad 'cause this is where it gets interesting.

For those in the north, the panels use energy they collect to power elements to keep the surface temperature a few degrees above freezing.

No more ice and snow on roads causing traffic delays, accidents, and injury.

No more shoveling your driveway and sidewalk.

No salt corroding your car, or wasting tax money on snow removal.

And, you can ride your bike or drive your motorcycle all year round. (Woah!)

Every panel has a series of LED lights on the circuit board that can be programmed to make landscape designs, warning signs, parking lot configurations, whatever.

These roads never have to have lanes repainted.

Just reprogram to whatever we choose or whatever works best.

Imagine a highway road lighting up ahead of you.

How much safer it would be to drive at night?

There'd be improved visibility for pilots landing on solar landing strips.

Imagine walking onto a solar recreation court and choosing a sports configuration.

Kids wanna play hopscotch and foursquare? Awesome.

And with LED lights under your feet, it's gonna look like freaking Tron out there, but real.

But these panels are also pressure sensitive, so they can detect when large debris like branches or boulders have fallen on to the road.

Or for when animals are crossing, they can warn drivers with LED text to slow down for an obstruction.

I'm very, you know, environmentally conscious.

Good, 'cause solar roadways use as much recycled material in their production as possible.

Plus, the roadways have two channels that form what's called the cable corridor that runs concurrently with the roadways themselves.

One part houses electrical cables, meaning power lines, day lines, fiber optics, and high speed Internet.

Which replaces the need for telephone pole and hanging wires that can be damaged during storms, causing power outages.

Or become extremely dangerous if severed, either as fallen livewires or buried cables.

The other channel captures and filters storm water and melted snow, moving them either to a trimming facility or trimming them on sight.

Greatly decreasing the amount of pollution that enters our soil, lakes, rivers and oceans.

Do you realize how many thousands of jobs this could create and sustain?

Talk about a hypodermic adrenaline shot to the heart of the manufacturing in infrastructure sector.

And it pays for itself, they're solar freakin' roadways.

Um, I have concerns about the future, is this thing even possible?

Solar roadway technology was invented by engineering couple, Julie and Scott Brusaw, in 2006.

Two of the sweetest people in the world, who met when they were 3 and 4 years old.

Hi, we're Scott and Julie Brusaw, inventors of solar roadways.

We met in the 1960s when we were 3 and 4 years old.

These wonderful, intelligent people want to begin manufacturing a technology that can power the future of the whole freaking planet.

They were awarded a contract from the Federal Highway Administration to build two prototypes, which are now complete.

They're too humble and wonderful to yell at you over the Internet, so I'm gonna do it.

You need to know about this technology. You need to get behind it.

You need to share with everyone you know.

'Cause this is actually happening. (Woah!)

We have the technology to do what nature's done since the beginning of life on this planet.

Harness the power of the sun to fuel our pursuits.

And this isn't about filling a field with solar panels, wasting land.

Our roads and parking lots are just sitting there, reflecting sunlight and absorbing heat, not doing nothing for nobody.

Which I guess means it's doing something for somebody.

We have to make the changes we want to see in the world.

The FHWA has provided the start-up fund to create the prototypes.

But now a grass-root effort of concerned and inspired people can push this project into independent production.

If we vote with our money for project we believe in, we can create a future where our society is driven by new ideas.

It need only begin with private driveways and parking lots.

Once the ball gets rolling, it'll create a momentum all on its own.

Not to mention, it's finally gonna look like the freakin' future out there.

City streets, driveway, sidewalks, and schoolyards glowing with LED panels. Are you kidding?

Imagine street festivals, imagine Mardi Gras, imagine the Movement Electronic Music Festival in downtown Detroit.

But all the concrete and hard plastic's been replaced with pressure-sensitive panels with multicolored lights in them.

And not to mention, they're freakin' solar panels!

It is been estimated that if all the roads in America were converted to solar roadways, the country would generate three times as much energy as it currently uses.