Building Green With Solar Bricks
What a great idea: incorporating solar energy not only into windows and roofs, but into the building blocks of structures themselves … as in bricks. The solar-powered brick, which has a solar cell embedded inside it, could be used to provide decorative or safety lighting, or even illuminate rural airplane runways, according to San Antonio-based distributor Sunrise Solar. Equally cool: you can order bricks that glow in any of a variety of colors.
Photo courtesy of Sunrise Solar Corp.
