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Innovative Projects Involving The Use Of Solar Energy Keep Surfacing. This Time, Engineers Developed A Sustainable Floor Made With Plastic And Solar Panels
Engineers from Hungary developed a sustainable floor made from recycled plastic that has solar panels to generate electricity. Currently, plastic is one of the major environmental problems, and therefore several companies are seeking to find a solution that does not involve landfills for this material. The engineers József Cseh, Imre Cziszák, and Miklós Ilyés are childhood friends and the developers of the project.
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Sustainable Floor Has Generated 440,000 kWh With The Help Of Solar Energy
The floor that uses plastic and solar panels is called Platio Solar. The three engineers who developed it have specializations in Chemical Engineering, Landscape Architecture, and Mechanical Engineering.
The engineers reunited during university and founded the company, which offers pavements made with recycled plastic and solar panels in various locations, such as houses, parks, buildings, sidewalks, among other structures that use concrete as pavement. In just five years, the sustainable floor has transformed around 32 tons of plastic waste into pavement, in addition to ensuring the generation of 440,000 kWh of solar energy.
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In 2015, the engineers’ company was just an idea, which was submitted to a competition, the Terminal’s Smart City Lab. When they won the competition with their innovative idea, the sustainable floor caught the attention of many and attracted private investors to the engineers’ company.
The First Prototypes Arrived In Mid-2016
The first prototypes of the sustainable floor were showcased in 2016 and, thereafter, the first project was launched live in Astana, in the Green Quarter area of the World Expo, in 2017.
In the same year, other pilot projects were developed to discover their areas of application, such as using the pavement in an electric car charging system, outdoor smart furniture, offshore power supply systems, and several others.
The company is already present in over 37 countries, offering sustainable flooring with solar panels for energy generation since, according to the engineers, it would be a waste not to utilize the pavements scattered throughout the city for electricity generation.
Solar Panel Equipped With Mini Wind Turbines, Similar To A Wall, Attracts Investment
A designer from the United States developed a solar panel equipped with mini wind turbines that resembles a wall, bringing an innovation that can generate electricity in small spaces.
The grid of the panel has square panels that rotate simultaneously on 25 axes, but each one comes with a fixed wind energy turbine. According to the American, a single sustainable wall has the capacity to generate enough clean energy to meet the demands of an American household.
Typically, American homes consume about 10,000 kWh annually, precisely the average energy generated by the equipment.
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