A Dutch company called Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV has developed a system which aborbs energy coming from the sun through the asphalt. One Road Energy System is installed in the village of Avenhorn and it stretches on 200 yards of a read, enough for powering a 70-unit four-story building.Another system is installed on an 160,000 industrial park in the city of Hoorn which is heated during winter and cooled during summer. The power comes with the help of 36,000 square feet of pavement.
(AP Photo/ Bas Czerwinski) :: A model of a lattice work of flexible plastic pipes, held firmly in place by a plastic grid, covered over by asphalt, which magnifies the sun's thermal power, is shown at Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV in Scharwoude, northern Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. The pipe-work by Dutch civil engineering firm Ooms, is claimed to be capable of siphoning the warmth from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
In a few years, after we realize the importance of using the endless solar power, maybe we will start to use more and more of its enormous potential. The first step to a greener world is to make use of renewable energy and the most important source is the sun.
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