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Poland Builds a Solar-Powered Bike Path That Glows Blue At Night (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the renewable-energy dept.

Poland recently unveiled a new solar-powered bike path in the town of Pruszkow that is built with "light-emitting material" that gets its power from the sun. While the bike path has the potential to glow multiple different colors, the path in Prusczkow glows a cool blue for up to 10 hours in the dark. TechCrunch reports: The company that made it, TPA sp. z o.o, is an engineering firm focused on future tech. They expect this sort of road to be useful in larger projects -- highways, say -- but for now they're limiting it to bike paths until they can test the material in the wild. They said that this type of path may be installed in Warsaw soon and that it can glow multiple colors. The lane uses luminophores -- chemicals that "ingest" light -- to keep the bike path nicely lit at night. They chose blue to "match the Mazurian landscape" where lakes abound. You can read a bit more at Gazeta Wyborcza if your Polish isn't too rusty or you can just bask in the cold beauty of a glowing bike lane in deepest Poland.

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  1. Re:Glow in the dark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    give 'em a break. they're polish.

  2. Re:More blue light? by Fly+Swatter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you worried about trying to not fall asleep while biking ?

    Maybe this is the solution.

  3. Already claims its first victim (READ TFA) by Provocateur · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have to read the linked article; the same kewl blue was used to make the first chalk outline where the body was found by homicide cops.

    If there will ever be that rare instance when you actually read a slashdot article, NOW is the time.

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  4. Let's put this in the context of politics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    All discussions must be put in the context of gender and racial inequality in America. I would like to submit that if President Obama would have created this bike path by spending 10 billion USD all the liberals would be applauding it. However since it was invented by Poles (aka evil white crackers) we must hate this and and want the UN to outlaw polish bike paths because they could hasten crackergenic global climate change. Did you notice that there are no African Americans riding on this polish bike path. The reason is obviously that poles (aka whites) hate blacks.

    Let's discuss this in terms of Partisan USAian politics.