A Dutch project to turn the nation's bike paths into energy-generating solar roadways has just cleared its first major test with flying colors.
Al Jazeera reports SolaRoad's 70-meter test track near the town of Krommenie outside Amsterdam has generated over 3,000 kilowatt-hours over its first six months of operation, or "enough to provide a single-person household with electricity for a year." That translates to 70 kwh per square meter of solar road per year, which the designers predicted as an "upper limit" during the planning process.
Basically, it works really, really well.
