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gregotyn
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 6595 Location: New England (In the US of A)
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 17 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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It's not looking good for solar roadways
https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/07/americas-first-solar-roadway-is-a-total-disaster/
Admittedly, this is only one company, but then again, they've sucked down 3.9 million in funding, which I personally would rather have seen go to installing panels - which already exist with today's technology and have been proven - on top of roadways, or parking garages, or what have you (or updating the grid to better handle solar generation).
Some choice quotes from this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5yp2l0/americas_first_solar_roadway_is_a_total_disaster/
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"The Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions."
That saying has been around in one form or another pretty much since the dawn of humanity. Can we stop giving people credit for having good intentions?
These people didn't do their homework, and have taken millions of dollars from taxpayers and gullible optimists. Then other people did the homework for them, and they persevered against the naysayers to continue on and waste more millions of dollars. |
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From another perspective, if anyone tries this again they will have to prove they are better than the precedent that was set by this. There is now undeniable evidence, instead of educated speculation that it is a bad idea or at least needs some major redesign is before it is viably fundable for a reattempt. There could be active data and improvements being made as this is, and always was, a pilot project. |
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Seriously roads are long narrow things you would be surprised how little space it takes to cover the same as a road. If you had a 1km by 1km square that would be equivalent to 166km of a 6m wide road. Even if we take 24 meters for a motorway we still get a lovely 44km of road covered by a 1 by 1 km. |
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Mistress Rose
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