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Letter: Self-heating roads

Published 6 January 2010

From W. Ray

Paul Marks’s article on electrically heated roads (28 November, p 26) reminded me of an article published in your excellent magazine about an electricity-generating road developed by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (10 December, p 25). Would it be possible to combine the two ideas to produce a totally self-sufficient heated road?

Liverpool, UK

Issue no. 2742 published 9 January 2010

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