The UK government proved once again that it’s not that conservative.

By accepting the progressive renewable energy industry, the government planned few new highways across the Britain to be equipped with built-in solar panels. That plan started as a cooperation with an enthusiastic UK family, the Internet, and crowdfunding...

The futuristic Solar Highways project will, of course, be powered by the sunlight energy. But the transformation from a family company's environmentalist dream to a mainstream reality was made possible only with the popular support and people’s power.

The technology is a long-term brainchild of Scott and Julie Templeton, who have almost tripled their initial goal of getting £1 million through crowdfunding site Indiegogo.

It was a necessity, in order to take the project to the next level and to build a prototype car park.

With social media support from celebrities such as George Takei, Solar Highways' technology takes a place of the standard asphalt roads and parking spaces with innovative and energy-efficient high-tech solar panels that generate power, miscellaneous lighting patterns and can melt the winter snow and slippery ice off the roads.