{"id":196442,"date":"2024-09-20T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/the-biggest-project-in-history-of-mankind-begins-52-billion-solar-panels-and-america-fully-covered"},"modified":"2024-09-20T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T16:23:12","slug":"the-biggest-project-in-history-of-mankind-begins-52-billion-solar-panels-and-america-fully-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/the-biggest-project-in-history-of-mankind-begins-52-billion-solar-panels-and-america-fully-covered","title":{"rendered":"The biggest project in history of mankind begins: 52 billion solar panels, and America fully covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-biggest-project-in-history-of-mankind-begins-52-billion-solar-panels-and-america-fully-covered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>52 billion solar panels<\/strong> could soon be covering the American highway network. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Geosciences, and Columbia University have proposed a historic initiative which could see major global highways covered with solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers publication <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2023EF003975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cRoofing Highways With Solar Panels Substantially Reduces Carbon Emissions and Traffic Losses\u201d<\/a> in <em>Earth\u2019s Future <\/em>advocate for the deployment of solar technology across the global highway network which spans up to 3.2 million kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the researchers estimate that up to <strong>17,578 TWh of electricity<\/strong> could be generated annually. This figure is equivalent to more than a staggering 60% of 2023\u2019s energy consumption. This could offset up to 28% of global carbon emissions and reduce road accident incidences up to 11%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>52 billion solar panels could soon be covering the American highway network. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Geosciences, and Columbia University have proposed a historic initiative which could see major global highways covered with solar panels. The researchers publication \u201cRoofing Highways With Solar Panels Substantially Reduces Carbon Emissions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}