Turning street pavements into solar panels

Hungarian tech company Platio uses recycled plastic to build solar panels into pavements, which can power buildings and charge electronic devices.

Each panel produces approximately 20 watts of energy, and they can be installed in places where conventional solar panels are unsuitable. The tech company has already built an 80-square-metre pavement to power air conditioning in a shopping mall.

Solar energy is a renewable free source of energy that is sustainable and inexhaustible, unlike fossil fuels that are finite. Energy from the sun is also non-polluting and does not emit any greenhouse gases when producing electricity.

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