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Wasn’t that idea debunked as impractical multiple times? EEVblog #632 - Solar Roadways Are BULLSHIT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds http://www.yout

by 3rd3 12y ago

Wasn’t that idea debunked as impractical multiple times? EEVblog #632 - Solar Roadways Are BULLSHIT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds

lucb1e 12y ago
Might be just me, but I really can't stand his way of talking for more than five minutes. Seriously, I really wonder, is it just me who feels this way about that way of speaking? And it's not just how he says it, he talks so much around it... For example he says: > Now, one of the major claims is that well these things generate excess energy and yeah they probably will under decent conditions and it'll generate decent revenue and it'll pay for themselves. Well, let's do some calculations on that. This will be fairly simplistic but it'll give us a good [ballpark?]. You can go a little deeper into the lifecycle analysis and all sorts of stuff which you won't worry about. Now, I'm gonna be incredibly generous yet again and I'm gonna assume that the LEDs consume no power at all. So we're just looking at this figure up here that we've got 380Wh/m2 per day. Remember, that's pretty much an ideal practical maximum, a fair, you know, a good [location?]. So, let's have a look at the figures. Shall we? Filtering it down to the content, we get: > They claim to be profitable, but that is probably under ideal conditions. Let's do some basic calculations. For simplicity I'll leave out the LEDs and go with the ideal maximum of 380Wh/m2 per day. That took two minutes and I didn't even make it to the results before clicking away. I just can't stand it. Anyone else having this? --- But in any case, according to the article this is the first ever live test. He's talking about some kickstarter apparently, they didn't make it I guess?
- dwild 12y ago
  I love Dave Jones video so really I don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you don't like Australian accent? For his rant videos, he does put less time and improvise more, this cause that kind of videos. It's not representative of his usual videos. The indiegogo campaign he is talking about did make it, well beyond their goal, they got $2.2m while they were only asking $1m. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways

by 3rd3 12y ago

Wasn’t that idea debunked as impractical multiple times? EEVblog #632 - Solar Roadways Are BULLSHIT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds

lucb1e 12y ago

Might be just me, but I really can't stand his way of talking for more than five minutes. Seriously, I really wonder, is it just me who feels this way about that way of speaking? And it's not just how he says it, he talks so much around it... For example he says: > Now, one of the major claims is that well these things generate excess energy and yeah they probably will under decent conditions and it'll generate decent revenue and it'll pay for themselves. Well, let's do some calculations on that. This will be fairly simplistic but it'll give us a good [ballpark?]. You can go a little deeper into the lifecycle analysis and all sorts of stuff which you won't worry about. Now, I'm gonna be incredibly generous yet again and I'm gonna assume that the LEDs consume no power at all. So we're just looking at this figure up here that we've got 380Wh/m2 per day. Remember, that's pretty much an ideal practical maximum, a fair, you know, a good [location?]. So, let's have a look at the figures. Shall we? Filtering it down to the content, we get: > They claim to be profitable, but that is probably under ideal conditions. Let's do some basic calculations. For simplicity I'll leave out the LEDs and go with the ideal maximum of 380Wh/m2 per day. That took two minutes and I didn't even make it to the results before clicking away. I just can't stand it. Anyone else having this? --- But in any case, according to the article this is the first ever live test. He's talking about some kickstarter apparently, they didn't make it I guess?

dwild 12y ago
I love Dave Jones video so really I don't know what you are talking about. Maybe you don't like Australian accent? For his rant videos, he does put less time and improvise more, this cause that kind of videos. It's not representative of his usual videos. The indiegogo campaign he is talking about did make it, well beyond their goal, they got $2.2m while they were only asking $1m. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways