MAR 07

The idea sounds great! Really innovative!
But there's one mistake, Denmark and The Netherlands (the dutch) are not the same country. The concept is being developed in the Netherlands, not Denmark.

ok good idea, but repairing that road is going to be a bitch!

Since you are melting the snow as it falls, less wear and tear from snowplows. Freezing and thawing and extreme temperatures are the main causes for roads to pothole, crack, buckle and disintegrate. This system tempers both hot and cold, so the road should last much longer. The reinforced grid system it is laid on should also help.

wish the US would start this kind of stuff...

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Just another example of how the US doesn't strive for innovation or solutions anymore. The world continues to pass us by as we bitch about all the "what if" scenarios behind a good idea. Glad to see there are pioneers elsewhere.

I suspect the cost of this system could have heated the building for a hundred years. I would like to see the actual numbers involved, included projected road maintenance savings.

The danes live in Denmark.

The dutch live in the Netherlands.

If MI had something like this people would spend less time on sore bums waiting for their cars to get repaired.

Its always been a known fact that this type of heating is quite efficient, even for domestic housing. Just have some piping running around under your garden has the same trick. Dont understand why we dont make more of type of energy.

This is a really great idea! I hope this works out.

I hate the Earth.

Literally. Looks like the Dutch are good for something...

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how is the surplus heat energy from summer stored until winter. vice versa the cold until summer.

by the way adam, the earth hates' you. ha!ha! sucker.

In Chicago this has to be applied AFTER they fix all the potholes, right?

Not economically or politically expedient.. We already get half paved lanes, just to save on asphalt, and bridges are in horrible repair, nationwide.

Just not gonna happen...
Cyborg

Patrick,

I bet you can apply this technology to your life if you try.

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What an excellent idea, I hope this idea heads over to the UK. Anything that reduces carbon emissions has got to be a good thing.

thats really great. good idea, should really work,, hopefully ;)

The old solar research center in Golden, Colorado tried that too, and it worked in 1981. Research got cut and so did this project. Admin of Pres Reagan cut the research funds. Not so in Europe.

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Maybe the article is correct and the Dutch hired the Danes to do work? A stretch, at best.

How much energy does it take to pump the water?

MarsBeyond ,
To address your US sucks remark(i believe there was a lack of inovation crack also!)
Why not really make a difference?
Isn't Asphalt 93% silica and 7% petroleum?
So why not loose the Petroleum refine the silica in mass, then teach the world a new way of laying asphalt.
Seems to me that you have then created a collector and generator of solar power that lands right in the lap of a presently functioning industry, already in place, over budgeted in over 60% of the world and that holds to a common and focussed purpose
of witch is the install ,upkeep, maintenance and eventually the replacement of this very interesting creature that we refer to as the Highway. That being said , a couple of high voltage strip inverters down the shoulders and center divide along with a beacon light at point of grid tie that could span every major overpass on ramp,off ramp.
Well doesn't this pretty much give you a road map depicting all micro grids that the utilities seem to have concerns over?
While if I am not mistaken, would land you enough available surface area (or collection space ) to address the worlds power needs to date in one fell swoop!
Can't begin to think of the ramifications that would be dropped in the Electric Vehicle Industries lap. (charging stations? Who needs them?)Why not teach the world a new way to build a charge controller?
Couldn't all vehicles be charged while driving during the day time at no cost to the vehicle owner other than the already exurbanite highway tax that he presently pays.

So Marsbeyond,
There is your good old fasion USA( or am i from Mars?) inovation at its best.
You now hold this inovation in your shakey little hands(or is that sucky?) What will you do with it?
Will you become the greatest American hero and fufill your destiny or will you conform to the picture you paint for the rest of the USA and just sit there and suck?
Whatever.....

Any idea to create new energy sources is an improvement!