Solar FREAKIN' Roadways (too 'murican to be true)

[RhynoCZ]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU
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[Lord Percy]

Saw this a day or two ago.

At first I thought, "Bullshit."

Then the advert slowly sold itself on me.

Then I remembered, "Bullshit."

Of course it's fantastic in theory, but to build and maintain those things would be a gigantic and surely impossible drain on resources. Not to mention it would hardly do anything more than provide a nifty manipulable ground lighting/information system for a road. The extra power will hardly be enough to power the country. I think the claim that a solar powered road network would power the country (U.S.) three times over is totally bogus.

[RhynoCZ]

[smegballs]

Considering how energy intensive and bad for environment (nasty chems used in production) PV panels are, using them to replace tarmac would be an absolutely hideous idea.

Take all that murrican enthusiasm, go out into nevada and go the solar-thermal route to just put steam through a turbine. It's much better for the environment than PV panels and actually outputs a useful AC voltage rather than DC which has to be rectified before it can be used.

https://www.greentreeimports.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/40-e1318172828993.jpg

[smegballs]

Loving the queens coinage at 5:27.

[ripzay]

Regardless of the solar credentials, i'd like to hear what the tyre manufacture industry think of this.. tyres have (as we know) gone through years of development for use on tarmac - and not much else, i'd find it very hard to believe that the textured glass offers the same friction and grip properties as tarmac does.

Nice idea in principal, but i doubt it will gain much traction (pun intended) other than the odd car park or rich person's driveway.
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[hmmmnz]

its a bit pie in the sky at the moment, and im sure it'll be fought by the companies who make asphalt, who already fight concrete for road surfaces,
but using recycled glass is a good way to keep the foot print low,
as a sparky, i would think the maintanence time would be pretty high,
and imagine the down time when a road has to be closed because a few dozen little panels need to be replaced,

saying that, i think it could be used for peoples driveways ect
as to how long it would take before there is a viable cheap version, who knows
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[metalangel]

This obnoxious video with all its horseshit science is being liked and shared to hell and back on Arsebook.

The stupid cunt loves the sound of his voice so much that he hasn't even seen that heated runways for airports is a shit idea, never mind millions of miles of roads around the world.

https://jdasolutions.aero/news-events/news/interest-warms-up.pdf
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[RhynoCZ]

I like how he talked about no pollution. Well, I'm no expert, but to produce these panels one needs quite a lot of toxic chemicals, doesn't he?

It is what it is, an 'murican idea at it's best.
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[Rogerborg]

IMO, solar PV, along with ground level wind turbines, are a cynical scam that burns fossil energy up front in order to recoup some of it back later.

I've never seen an ecohippy grasp the nettle that "renewables" need to produce not just more energy than it takes to make them (whatever voodoo you use to calculate that), but enough excess to power the infrastructure and lives of the humans involved in that process. I welcome correction.

My concerntroll is that hands will be waved, figures fudged and palms greased until we've bet the farm on "renewables" that aren't.
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[Lord Percy]

[Rogerborg]

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[el_oso]

embrace the warm nucelar glow!
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[tbourner]

I've said it before (maybe not on here though, can't remember); I think the future is nuclear, fusion to be precise, but we need something between now and then - say 50-60 years. That is likely to be a mixture of fossil, renewable and now fracked gas. Renewables (even solar roads) will never be enough to cover demand, but they are a good bonus to add on top.

Ideally I would like to see everyone have some solar or wind or tidal local to them, for most people it will be solar. Just enough to make up a proportion of their use. If we can get around the legality of islanding homes as well (so that your solar panels actually feed your home when there's a brownout, rather than supplying the grid and not being fed back) that would be good. Then when the fusion revolution comes we won't actually need the renewables any more, but we'll all be used to it, so we'll be generating locally in your house, maybe with some town-wide CHP systems, then national fusion to supplement at night etc.
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[Rogerborg]

[Lord Percy]

[Rogerborg]

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but they rarely accept them in lieu of salary.

Which is the problem with all this Good Life noncery: it's all fine and good as long as there are enough of us supporting a 21st century infrastructure to bail them out.

That said, I'd still rather have spongers growing cabbages than watching Jeremy Kyle.
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[RhynoCZ]

Need power? 3 words: nuclear power plant.
It's clean, quiet, safe and very efficient. Burning coal or waste is none of those things.

Now, I expect you to go mental on me.
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[tbourner]

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