At the Worcester Polytechnic Institute an ingenious pollster’s team under the headship of Rajib Mallick, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering has figured out an eccentric source of energy. The researcher’s team has successfully designed a solar collector which would effectively draw out heat captivated by roads and pavements.

This hottest renewable energy substitute would radically recover solar energy contrasting conventional solar cells via a distinctively built up heat exchanger unit. This piece would effectually extract heat engrossed by asphalt roads, parking lots, airport tarmacs, market pavements, etc. not only during sunlight hours but also in dark as the asphalt based heat collectors remain hot even after the sun sets down to produce contemptible springs of electrical energy and hot water.

By now a substantial land is available in the form of set up roads and parking lots which would be easily retrofitted for power production so this innovatively green concept would prove to be economical in addition as no extra territory would be required for setting up solar farms.

Via EcoWordly