The orders are starting to pour in for Solar Roadways, while Julie and Scott Brusaw of Sandpoint, Idaho scramble to process all the donor perks they promised in their wildly successful Indiegogo campaign. The campaign raised $2.2 million, 220% of its original target, to help propel the Brusaws into production with their scheme to turn roadways into solar collectors. In an update this week, Scott reported that Sandpoint wants to become the first Solar Roadways City, with retrofits to a parking lot, downtown sidewalks, a train station, and 25 acres of airport tarmac. “These kinds of projects are perfect for us,” he writes. “They’re right in our own backyard and easy to monitor. If anything goes wrong, we’re only five minutes away. This will allow us the opportunity to get real world experience and see where any problems pop up. We’ll monitor these installations for one full year before offering our technology to the general public in 2016.”
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