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An excellent and necessary curmudgeon take on this project. Infrastructure needs to be kept dumb, because simple tends to be robust. Putting sun-tracking pane
by thrill 12y ago
An excellent and necessary curmudgeon take on this project. Infrastructure needs to be kept dumb, because simple tends to be robust. Putting sun-tracking panels on rooftops would be much easier and cheaper and maintainable and closer to grid insertion points.
- sp332 12y agoOur roadways (well, major highways anyway) are not that simple. And our aging power grid is a liability. Sun-tracking panels on rooftops having nothing to do with solar roadways - you can do both at once, of course. Rooftops have tiny surface area compared to roadways though.