Thomas Chang | Utilizing Mass Property, Roads and Solar Panels for Future Energy
I thought this installation was really cool. I came across this parking lot during my visit at Palo Alto University. It took me a few rounds around the campus to find the right building so I decided to take a quick snap shot to make use of my aimless driving. What's cool about these solar panels is that it's multi-purpose; it shades from sun, covers from rain and harvests power. Plus, no additional property is required for installation because it's used in the preexisting parking lot. With this, I'm also looking forward to seeing solar-panel "roads" in the future as a ubiquitous feature to our infrastructure. It's exciting to propose the amount of power we can generate from the roads, alone. Maybe even to the extent were nuclear power plants, oil fuel, coal or dams are no longer unnecessary. Engineers are already on their way to developing a "wireless" power source for electronic devices like laptops. If that is possible, it would be a great gateway for cars to also be simultaneously powered while driving on the road. Possibly a "Mutual-Energy Trade" between the millions of pounds of kinetic energy highways endure everyday from cars driving over the cement (which can be replaced with micro-solar plates, bi-functional with UV receptors while converting oscillating pressures into electricity from the moving vehicles above). The"wireless" power transference between internal power transmitters installed underneath the road and the vehicle power receivers can simultaneously trade off. It would become a self-sustaining energy system between road and car. That would be awesome.
I thought this installation was really cool. I came across this parking lot during my visit at Palo Alto University. It took me a few rounds around the campus to find the right building so I decided to take a quick snap shot to make use of my aimless driving. What's cool about these solar panels is that it's multi-purpose; it shades from sun, covers from rain and harvests power. Plus, no additional property is required for installation because it's used in the preexisting parking lot. With this, I'm also looking forward to seeing solar-panel "roads" in the future as a ubiquitous feature to our infrastructure. It's exciting to propose the amount of power we can generate from the roads, alone. Maybe even to the extent were nuclear power plants, oil fuel, coal or dams are no longer unnecessary. Engineers are already on their way to developing a "wireless" power source for electronic devices like laptops. If that is possible, it would be a great gateway for cars to also be simultaneously powered while driving on the road. Possibly a "Mutual-Energy Trade" between the millions of pounds of kinetic energy highways endure everyday from cars driving over the cement (which can be replaced with micro-solar plates, bi-functional with UV receptors while converting oscillating pressures into electricity from the moving vehicles above). The"wireless" power transference between internal power transmitters installed underneath the road and the vehicle power receivers can simultaneously trade off. It would become a self-sustaining energy system between road and car. That would be awesome.
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