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Solar roadways
- daveloyall 11y agoDrive on an interstate. Safely park your car, get out of it and spend sixty seconds looking at the ground and the road. Now, what five things are wrong with "solar roads"? Go on.
- extrapickles 11y agoIts cheaper and better to build the panels over the roadway rather than have the actual road surface contain them. Its even cheaper to stick them on existing roofs that do not have solar panels installed. Solar panels do not tolerate partial shading, which car/truck traffic will generate. Several people[1] have run the numbers for them, and there are many other locations that would be much cheaper and more effective. Also, if glass made as good of a road surface as they claim, it would be in use now at least somewhere. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZSXB3KDF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZSXB3KDF0