You may often get upset whenever your car is stuck on the ice-covered road. Then stealthily you were wondering about the coming days that you can travel freely in the winter without being worried about the problem.
Your dream is on the way to be realized. In Idaho, the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) has invested $750,000 to build Solar Roadways. The roadways use the latest prototype technology which consists of solar panels, heating elements, and a grid of wireless LED lights. With the 7.6 kilowatt of the production, it is able to melt the snow.
However, where will the melted ice flow? The project stakeholder has not mentioned about that. If the water is flowed to the riverbank, it may cause flood, since there must be million liters of melted snow around.
So, the developer should also think about how to maintain the water from the melting ice before it even makes things worse. Therefore, advanced drainage system is required. As we know, the winter's day is shorter than the night. So, it seems impossible if we only depend on the natural evaporation.
The drain will also be helpful when to keep the storage of water. The water can be purified or recycled so that people can use it for daily needs.
Furthermore, does the solar parking lot even make the parking tax higher? The solar roadway and parking lot system absolutely need extra maintenance than the conventional ones. Nevertheless, we expect that there is no such additional parking tax regarding to the new technology.
When the hot weather comes then, the Solar Roadways are off while everyday vehicles pass through on the roads. It can worsen the road. Thus, a covering system for the hot weather also has to be thought over.
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