Smart roads that generate solar energy

The technology has had a great advance in recent years, it is very important in the
economic field at the beginning, you can use a large amount of investment, but
with the passage of time, it recovers in the case of roads. Countries The need to
look for renewable alternatives to fossil fuel pollutants does not allow limits in the
imagination and innovation of ideas. One of them, which emerged a few years ago,
is to convert the long roads into kilometers and solar panels that need an
"inexhaustible" energy source. Learn about it.
The technology that has been implemented is the collection of solar energy
through the roads and the cycle to create a sustainability system.
All over the world we have roads and implementing this system would be easy but
costly with both environmental and economic benefits, taking care that they do not
affect their users, apart from providing a great benefit because it helps to provide
sustainable energy to streets, vehicles and homes.
Our main source is the solar energy that we can take advantage of and more in
times of heat, for example in Mexico one of its states where it feels too hot is
Sonora, Michoacán, Baja California where this new technology could take
advantage of this natural energy accumulated and also reduce cracks in the
pavement due to heat.

Components
Its operation is like a solar panel but adapted to a road, its surface is a glass that
can withstand and resist any type of vehicle, all applied forces, followed by a layer
of sensors that will help us produce and provide energy electrical, and finally the
solar panel that will capture all the energy and turn it into energy with the great
advantage that the sun will remain for several years because it is an inexhaustible
resource, reducing energy costs and implementing power to traffic lights be found.
This type of road is safe, they support without any problem the pressure of any
type of vehicle that circulates.
It really gives us a great advantage and support this type of road is a very good
innovation because with a natural resource such as the sun's rays we can save
energy and also feed homes, this proposal is being managed in countries like
Holland and Germany has given very good results and we can say that you only
need panel placement that is more effective than compared to panels on roofing is
better energy is received and is more effective, apart from that it has a great life of
25 years a little more than an asphalt or hydraulic pavement road.
Impact and advantages
Undoubtedly, global warming, that is, the increase in temperatures in the
atmosphere and oceans of recent years, is a truly worrisome issue since our very
survival is seriously threatened and every country in the world, every region, every
inhabitant and every citizen today we suffer from the consequences.
So this technology has a great acceptance by society and in terms of drivers are
not dangerous this type of road.
The help is great in the economic field, it helps to reduce electricity bills because
these roads feed homes and reduce pollution apart from the fact that we consume
an inexhaustible natural resource that is the sun, which is not polluting and that is
converted into electricity.
But not only solar energy can be used in this way but it would also serve as
lighting, and signaling messages that we can find to provide greater safety to
drivers and especially at night would be used as markings on the pavement led
lighting .
Disadvantages
 It would be the investment that is required for the placement of panels and
glass that is resistant.
 Solar energy is that it can not be produced at night.
Conclusions
The best thing of all is that it is a sustainable highway, this is an innovative project
that helps us in the future and that can soon be implemented with the problems
that we present as a society with respect to pollution, global warming has
increased and this is a good option for its reduction and in a future time it can
supply energy to an entire country.
Renewable energies are the best tool to fight against the national energy
dependence, the import of fossil fuels and the payment for CO2 emissions.
When an asphalt pavement road or hydraulic concrete is made, an impact on the
environment is produced, when cutting trees, the habitat of the species is modified,
together with the materials we occupy and the garbage that is produced, the roads
are important. way of communication but they are not ecological like the solar
roads and with a durability in useful life.
We hope that this idea will one day become a reality by implementing it in Mexico