Money is certainly tight in the post-secondary system nowadays, which raises the question of why a Canadian university in the province of British Columbia is going to spend $110,000 in up-front costs to construct a solar road that will provide enough electricity to power only 40 personal computers. As reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: A decorative compass that students and others at Thompson Rivers University [TRU] walk over to enter the campus' Arts and Education Building will soon start generating solar energy as a "solar roadway." ... [According to Michael Mehta, a geography and environmental studies professor at TRU,] "People will be able to walk on it, vehicles will be able to drive on it and it will -- in the same way as these other rooftops systems -- capture the energy from the sun and produce electricity to operate the Arts and Education building." ... "It's expected to produce about 10,000 kilowatt-hours a year...(Read Full Post)