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Hey remember solar roads and how they were going to revolutionize road construction and usher forth the green revolution? Well you may also remember that France decided to build a 1 km section of solar-powered road as a trial, and the divided internet collectively went "well okay then" https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-first-solar-road-has-turned-out-to-be-a-disappointing-failure/ quote:In July, the French daily newspaper Le Monde reported that the 0.6-mile (1 kilometre) solar road was a fiasco. Geeze, who could have predicted that leaves might land on the road? Talk about your acts of god
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fossil fuels are cheap and effective, not much reason to research beyond them maybe fusion tech could be good
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Aug 18, 2019 19:53
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Idk I bet the people who came up with this ridiculous idea scammed a shitload of money so really they are successful entrepreneurs.
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Aug 18, 2019 19:56
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Don't solar panels have to track the sun in order to maximize energy generation? Meh. I'm looking forward to nuclear roads or barring that a hydro road (no it's not a river)
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Aug 18, 2019 19:58
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france fails news at 10
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Aug 18, 2019 19:59
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We should not trial anything renewable anymore.
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Aug 18, 2019 20:01
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Supreme Allah posted:france fails news at 10 The only reason I know about the French locales mentioned is because Americans fought Germans there
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Aug 18, 2019 20:07
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Nobody could've predicted that the fragile solar panels might be prone to breakage from several-ton vehicles driving on top of them several thousand times a day. I mean who could've predicted that?
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Aug 18, 2019 20:09
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Solar roads are a totes juicy idea, but uh, maybe think things through a little more before you ejaculate 5.2 mil into a technology.
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if you're gonna make roads generate energy, why not turn them into a treadmill? seems less dumb than trying to make solar panels strong enough to withstand several tons of metal rolling over it daily
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Yet another example of people trying their damnedest to usher in a 'green technological revolution' so we can keep our society based upon conspicuous consumption going without completely killing the planet. Lol no we aren't going to tech bro bullshit our way out of this mess. We're just going to have to buy less poo poo and park our cars. No getting out of it. Solar roads. Whoever the gently caress believed that nonsense probably still thinks Elon is going to show up to dig them a tunnel.
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Literally A Person posted:Solar roads are a totes juicy idea, but uh, maybe think things through a little more before you ejaculate 5.2 mil into a technology. My company spends that in rnd in a few months. Try putting them on the shoulders/bike lanes?
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Aug 18, 2019 20:15
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Maybe just put the panels anywhere that doesn't have 2000 pound steel boxes rolling over it all day?
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Aug 18, 2019 20:15
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Solar toilets Solar shoes Solar plumbers These are all technologies and ideas you can buy from me. And more!
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Mnoba posted:fossil fuels are cheap and effective, not much reason to research beyond them maybe fusion tech could be good
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Aug 18, 2019 20:21
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Has anyone tried solar powered solar panels?
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Aug 18, 2019 20:21
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Solar fries ...piled high
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Aug 18, 2019 20:26
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solar hats, made of tinfoil
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Aug 18, 2019 20:29
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Solar roads, brought to you by cloud imperium games
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My mind rejects the frequency It's just verbosity to me Is it a solar fever?
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Aug 18, 2019 20:32
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Solar molars: eat the loving sun
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solar panels, but for dogs
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IRC this started with two idiots who groverhoused a lovely walkable solar panel and then hired a PR company to do a Kickstarter making insane promises of what you can do with that. None of them were engineers or had any idea what they were doing so they got a shitton of money from backers. Then some french city doubled down with 50mio on this idiocy for some reason, probably cancelling imporyant repairs on some school or bridge or something
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Aug 18, 2019 20:36
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Someone seriously lined their pockets through this though. Might not even be the two idiots who started this mess, but probably them too.
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Burt Sexual posted:Try putting them on the shoulders/bike lanes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolaRoad
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Lol imagine how much co2 was pumped into the air to build and later demolish this glass road for idiots
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Aug 18, 2019 20:41
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I propose a solar car. We load people in it and send it to the sun.
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sweet thursday posted:Lol imagine how much co2 was pumped into the air to build and later demolish this glass road for idiots Lol, they could have build a highly efficient solar power plant and ten roads with that money
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There's a whole bunch of these solar loving roadways, there's this one in France of course, a bike path in the Netherlands and even Germany had of course the most retarded one with LEDs and heaters built-in in highway rest area or something. Check out the 3-4 recent videos on all of these projects imploding: https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog/search?query=solar+roadways
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Aug 18, 2019 20:47
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After the success of cardboard straws maybe we should build roads out of it
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nice of the french mayor 2 say it in english i guess
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Aug 18, 2019 20:48
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solar roads, what's next, solar trees?
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Aug 18, 2019 20:55
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Remove the trees so no leaves fall and obstruct the solar panels.
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maybe instead of putting the solar panels in a place where they will be crushed all day long by different poo poo they should just build some dedicated solar plants.
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Aug 18, 2019 20:59
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Foiled by foliage
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I've worked in the solar industry for the past 12+ years. System design, sales, tech support. Also a background in EE. I also live outside of the town where the first solar roadway company was started. They got a kickstarter and then a 2 million dollar federal grant. It is the most goddamn stupid idea I've ever seen. Here's a lesson for those that are new to solar. Solar panels have to be in the sun! Dirt, leaves, oil, constant shadows from vehicles, will all dramatically decrease production. Then you get into transmission lines. In a town with existing infrastructure, sure, not too hard to tap into the grid. But these people advocate "putting them out in the desert where there is more sun and fewer cars!" So, you going to build an entire electrical transmission grid to go with that? Maybe a mechanical engineer goon can chime in, but I'm pretty sure building roads out of tiled pieces is not mechanically sound for long term stability for heavy and high speed traffic. Works great for chariots and wagons, but unstable to support modern traffic. They shake loose over time. There is a demo display that was installed in the downtown park. The panel-tiles had to be replaced twice so far. The originals cracked and leaked water because they didn't fully seal them, and the current mess looks like pure garbage. Discolored panels (due to lovely manufacturing), gaps, looseness in the tiles, etc. And this is a walkway area, they aren't even in the street. It's embarrassing to even be asked your opinion on it. Here's a thought, lets put panels on roofs, carports, pole mounts first, you know, where they will actually get sunlight on them.
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Burt doesn’t know solar.
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Burt Sexual posted:Burt doesn’t know solar. Ironically, neither do the solar roadway people.
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It’s usually a million a mile for basic new road construction, if it was actually producing power the project probably wasn’t as disastrous as they’re making it out to be. Roads are expensive in general, and a financial sinkhole since there’s significant & continuous maintenance costs.
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Solar roads appeal to the NIMBYs who don't want anything put anywhere. "you can have your crazy hippie magic but it better not be visible to any of us"
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