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Solar Cells Along Highways To Generate Power
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A promising invention now being tested at Towson University collects and stores solar energy, even when it isn't sunny.
Suzanne Collins explains the idea is to place those cells along highways to generate power for street lights or construction.
The inventor says the circular solar collectors placed along a jersey wall gather much more energy than flat panels, even when its a dim day or at night.
"Part of the ability we have that no other solar cell system in the world has is when headlights strike these tubes at night, they create electricity," said Kahrl Retti, Solarroad Technologies.
The electrawall also stores what it collects in batteries.
Solaroad Technologies is part of a business incubator at Towson University. Wednesday they showed the invention to Congressman John Sarbanes, who's committee is encouraging development of alternate sources of energy. The inventor claims a million feet of his collectors could match the output of a small nuke.
"Solaroad is developing this technology that can be deployed very quickly across the country in ways that can capture the sun and capture light and produce energy from that," said Congressman John Sarbanes.
Professors and students at Towson are involved in testing of the solar tubes.
"We have had at least one or ten student interns working in the company as well as research projects on the capabilities of the technology," said Dyan Brasington, Towson University.
The company also wants to market a cube tube, which would be installed on top of a workers cubicle in an office and it would get energy from the florescent lights in the work space.
Every cubicle in America that has a computer, printer, light whatever could be powered using interior photo voltaic cells.
Solaroad Technologies hopes to get the government to invest in the technology.
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