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Students Devise Method of Using Roads as Energy Source

The National Weather Study Project, a competition in Singapore that promotes thinking green, recently pitted teams from 152 schools against one another. The various groups submitted a total of 235 projects. One of the three winning teams, from Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) in Singapore, developed an idea so intriguing it earned the designers a $10,000 prize and a chance to demonstrate it at an upcoming showcase in Germany.

According to the Straits Times, the group of four students from ACJC developed a system involving water pipes built under roads. Heat gathered and stored by the roads warms the water, providing a greener alternative to gas or electric heating systems, and a significantly cheaper alternative to solar panels.

Specifics of how the system works aren't available yet. If truly effective, the system could actually become a widely accessible green energy source (we've got a lot of streets), since solar panels and other methods typically require exorbitant costs to purchase, install, and maintain. [From: Straits Times via Newsvine]


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