Solar Compass Project looks to transform Canada’s roadways

Professor Michael Mehta is heading the team which is set to transform a campus road into a solar array.

Michael Mehta, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C., is the brains behind an ambitious project to turn the concrete road surface outside the school's Arts and Education Building into a solar voltaic pad capable of generating 8,000 watts of clean power.Image courtesy of the Solar Compass Project/YouTube

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BY IAIN SHERRIFF-SCOTT

July 17, 2017

An innovative new project from a British Columbia geography professor is threatening to change the way Canadians build roads by transforming an innocuous slab of concrete into a needed source of renewable energy Michael Mehta, a professor of geography and environmental studies at Thompson Rivers Un...

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