Solar walls, roads, and housing materials?

I have found an ambitious company that is trying to deliver what look to be very forward thinking products to the marketplace of solar energy. Solaroad Technologies Group, LLC. plans to release their ElectraWallTM product in the next six months and they have even more revolutionary products on the rise for coming years in their SolarFilm, SolarBuilder, and SunStar Automotive.

Here is a snippet from their PR on the ElectraWall product:

The ElectraWall TM (Status: US Patent Pending) Autonomous Power System is a light harvesting electrical generator and accumulator providing on-demand power. The system is designed to demonstrate the methodology and application of a low cost, zero carbon footprint, renewable, green, Prime Energy Source.

The ElectraWallTM System is designed to provide a realistic hardware platform which makes use of pre-existing infrastructure. It is capable of revolutionizing the US power grid, enabling an Independent Power Producer (IPP) to generate electricity and rout the excess into the electric utility grid. The System is capable of collecting and storing energy from various outdoor locations, such as rooftops, highway infrastructures, light poles, decks, and fences. It can also be used as a back-up generator for institutions, business buildings, and residential communities.

The ElectraWallTM System allows our customers to reduce (watt shave) the electricity purchased from the utility company or completely remove their business/home, facility, etc. from the electrical grid, reducing carbon footprints while drastically reducing electric bills or selling electricity back to the utility company. In addition, ElectraWall customers will receive credit on their electric bills for returning energy to the grid.

The ElectraWallTM System is different than any other photovoltaic system available today. The patented cylindrical design of the system takes advantage of global sunlight and is not dependent on the sun’s angle of incidence and therefore does not require direct sunlight to function. ElectraWall devices will never have to be motorized to “follow the sun.”

Imagine if their technology works, power from cubicle to run computers and lights, power from the roads we drive on and the materials to create houses that generate energy from all the materials coating the outside of the house. Sounds dream like but it could come to be and then wouldn’t we have a building revolution?