Earlier this week, the first
solar roadway opened in Amsterdam — a 70-meter stretch of cycle path
between two suburbs of the city that generates solar power from rugged,
textured glass-covered photovoltaic cells.
My significant other, Jessica Hall, happens to be spending a semester in Amsterdam and was willing to trek out to the Krommenie-Wormerveer cross-connection to see this solar roadway in action.
Below, we’ll answer some common questions people have raised about the projects and the road itself. One thing to know about the Netherlands is that biking is huge there, despite the wet, maritime climate. Building a solar bike path isn’t a throwaway gesture as it is in the United States, and the bike path itself, as you’ll see, is laned like a modern road.
This project is built by SolaRoad — it’s different from the crowdfunded Solar Roadways project that Extreme Tech wrote about earlier this year.
Read more: The Netherlands has laid the world’s first solar road – we go eyes-on to investigate | ExtremeTech
My significant other, Jessica Hall, happens to be spending a semester in Amsterdam and was willing to trek out to the Krommenie-Wormerveer cross-connection to see this solar roadway in action.
Below, we’ll answer some common questions people have raised about the projects and the road itself. One thing to know about the Netherlands is that biking is huge there, despite the wet, maritime climate. Building a solar bike path isn’t a throwaway gesture as it is in the United States, and the bike path itself, as you’ll see, is laned like a modern road.
This project is built by SolaRoad — it’s different from the crowdfunded Solar Roadways project that Extreme Tech wrote about earlier this year.
Read more: The Netherlands has laid the world’s first solar road – we go eyes-on to investigate | ExtremeTech
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