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This thread is inspired by another: view original post
Edited by HurtfulTurkey:
6/2/2014 9:19:34 PM
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Solar roadways will never happen, & are stupid.
Just gonna tl;dr this shit since this needs to get cleared up, fast.
-Each tile costs roughly $3,000 per square foot, not including cost of maintenance and installation (holy shit that's a lot!)
-Roads are not an ideal surface for solar panels because they are frequently covered by cars, dirt, oil, water, etc
-Glass is unsuitable to drive on
-The government would need to buy a separate power line system (cannot be simply "plugged into" existing power lines)
-Solar panels are optimally angled towards the sun, not straight up
-The issue with solar isn't the lack of space to put panels (they go very well on roofs, parking cover, etc.), it's the current cost of producing and maintaining panels vs. the value of the energy they generate
Watch the video for some more. Solar roadways were never going to happen. Maybe next time you guys will use a bit more scrutiny after watching a video with a caricatured person saying "whoooaaa" liked a stoned dumbass, or telling you that the world is going to look like Tron.
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At the very least, even if they aren't used for roads, their points are still valid. Driveways, rooftops, and so on. The amount of space that every roof of a mall takes adds up to quite a bit. Everybody seems to think that the panels have to live up to this standard of beating all other power sources by using sheer mass and space to generate power, but they don't. Even if you have them powering simple things on the streets like lights, it takes off that much more of a need for using energy from other sources, which we are trying to move away from. Every damn scrap you can get counts in this field, and these panels, although not likely to be implemented into the roads, is a good step, and a good point. People have to try.
