Green Boulevards viali alberati del terzo millennio | delphilab+ ld'a

We should learn from the past. It’s not a cliché,not like talking about Romans. There was a time when people was able to do better with less. That’s the way a social and economical crisis should be handled.We had our Industrial Renaissance, even if we are not always aware of it.In the 50’s we came out of a war, we started building highways: they connected people and ideas. That’s great but nowadays there is a price to pay. We want to pay this price by wind and sun. It’s not a cliché: it’s a solution, it is easy and for free. Big problems often need small solutions. We think that it’s not possible to approach a critical infrastructure by means of another overlying structure. We are confident that such a project can be solved from the inside. We thought about an integrated system producing energy without modifying the existing landscape. It is a small wind turbine activated by slight wind and even by local air turbulence generated by the vehicles’ motion. They are placed inside the guardrails and connected to the transformers and then to the electric network where the energy will be firstly delivered to the local inhabitants and the highway functioning system. The other system consists of an Organic Photovoltaic module (OPV). It is made by carbon composites and is silicon free. It can be transparent and work in the infrared domain to let the vegetation grow normally. It is efficient even with overcast sky. It is thin, easy to install. It is organic, eco-friendly and biodegradable. And it is amazingly cheap.