{"id":12697,"date":"2012-11-06T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2012-11-06T03:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:00:17","slug":"glow-in-the-dark-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12697","title":{"rendered":"Glow in the Dark \u2026 Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2012-10\/30\/smart-highway-glows-in-the-dark\">Netherlands highways will glow in the dark from mid-2013<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The studio has developed a photo-luminising powder that will replace road markings &#8212; it charges up in sunlight, giving it up to ten hours of glow-in-the-dark time come nightfall. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the glow in the dark paint you and I had when we were children,&#8221; designer Roosegaarde explained, &#8220;but we teamed up with a paint manufacture and pushed the development. Now, it&#8217;s almost radioactive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Special paint will also be used to paint markers like snowflakes across the road&#8217;s surface &#8212; when temperatures fall to a certain point, these images will become visible, indicating that the surface will likely be slippery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netherlands highways will glow in the dark from mid-2013 The studio has developed a photo-luminising powder that will replace road markings &#8212; it charges up in sunlight, giving it up to ten hours of glow-in-the-dark time come nightfall. &#8220;It&#8217;s like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}