Solar Road Prototype Finished
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Extreme Makeover: Reinventing the Parking Lot
[Autos]Ripping up yesterday's asphalt expanses can make towns greener and livelier and still save room for cars...
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US Army to Turn Gulf Spill Oil Into Asphalt [Video]
[Environment]In order to protect the coastline at Dauphin Island -- a site where tar balls have made landfall and hundreds of fish are washing up dead on the beach -- the US Army has launched a highly experimental plan to prevent any oil from reaching its shores.
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The 11 Most Annoying Everyday Devices of Modern Civilization
[Hardware]Not all gadgets provide an improvement, many gadgets serve to anger and annoy their users and others around them. Here’s a list of gadgets and devices that have all undoubtedly found themselves at the wrong end of a mallet or strip of asphalt countless times.
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Hot Asphalt as Better Energy Collector than Solar Panels?
[Environment]Researchers in Massachusetts are working on a technique to turn heat gathered by asphalt into useable energy via water pipes. Their paper, released this week at the International Symposium on Asphalt Pavements and Environment in Zurich, posits that asphalt roads could be better than solar panels in gathering energy.
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California turns old tires into new roads
[Autos]Rubberized asphalt is made by blending rubber from tires sitting in landfills with asphalt, and uses about 2,000 tires for ever lane mile paved. Not only does it cut down on noise, but it resists cracking, retains its original color and can save up to $50,000 per lane mile compared with the standard layer of asphalt.
