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Submitted to Reddit by SVOboy and to Digg by Sconathon 8/19/2008

The sun is everywhere. It heats everything on the planet.

Roads and parking lots are everywhere.

It just makes sense that someone would come up with a way to harness the power of the sun and the heat collection capabilities of asphalt to produce energy. Frankly, I’m surprised nobody thought of it before.

This article in GreenUpgrader, plus these articles on Science Daily and CleanTechnica, shed some light (pun intended) on the potential of using the abundant combination of road and rays and making a super-potential power supply for the world.

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They’ve figured out how to turn cobble stones into /solar panels. What’s next? It’s getting kind of ridiculous.

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