Imagine harnessing the power of vehicles traversing the country’s highways and roads, and plugging it into a renewable energy grid used to light up communities and electrify the sedans of tomorrow.
Local environmental advocate Kelly Meyer has teamed with inventors Gene Fein and Ed Merritt to do just that. Their Green Roadway Project envisions a vast green plan deployed along the country’s roadways that would employ solar, wind and geothermal stations to capture clean, renewable energy for supplying electricity grids to neighboring cites. And they are banking on its viability to attract investors in this month’s auction of the project’s licensing portfolio.
“Imagine filling up your tank at an electric recharging station along Route 66,” Meyer said at a recent press conference that unveiled examples of the roadway solar panel units. “Then imagine our children traveling our nation’s highways, generating kilowatts of energy with each passing mile. This is how we can meet our responsibility to leave the world better than how we found it.”
Meyer, who is on the Leadership Council for the National Resources Defense Council and was a partner in building the first LEED Platinum home in California, met Fein at Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School, where their children attend classes together. They were instrumental in helping the public school become the first in California to install solar panels to generate its own energy.
Fein and Merritt have more than 150 patents filed on digital technologies, for everything from water distribution plans to methods of handling new data more efficiently. About five years ago, they started working on a portfolio of inventions designed to innovate clean energy gathering and distribution.
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