| I spend a lot of time on the road visiting family and my | | | | CleanTechnia.com, the meter will run backward on |
| daughter, a student in Oregon. I often wonder if all | | | | sunny days, helping offset the city's energy costs. |
| those flat surfaces I see on my trips could be put to | | | | That's a model that can be followed elsewhere |
| more productive use. | | | | because bus shelters are everywhere. |
| Could all those carports, bus shelters, miles of | | | | There also is talk of solar-powered roadways. Jerry |
| roadways and sidewalks and acres of wasted space | | | | Brown, who wants a do-over as California governor, |
| atop warehouses and distribution centers do double | | | | has them in his green-jobs plan, and the concept has |
| duty, perhaps generating power as they bake in the | | | | been touted elsewhere. Scientific American recently |
| summer sun? | | | | did a long story on the prospect of solar roads. |
| As it turns out, I'm not alone in my thinking. More | | | | Whether we ever drive on roads that help pay for |
| warehouses are getting solar panels. Recently, | | | | themselves remains to be seen. After all, government |
| California State University, Fresno, and Fresno | | | | budgets are in disarray and none of this is cheap. But |
| Yosemite International Airport installed solar panels on | | | | wouldn't it be cool? I could drive my electric car on a |
| parking structures and carports. | | | | solar road, generating power and helping the |
| Now, the city of Corona has a solar project on a bus | | | | environment in one of the foulest air-quality regions in |
| shelter that is a mini power generator. According to | | | | the nation. |