Solar Freakin Roadways

Maybe because our council tax bill would be enormous?

Great idea, but who's going to pay for it.

And the stupid Murica 'In your Face' commentary is just annoying.
 
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See you in 1,000,000,000 years when you've replaced all the current stuff.

Yeah............................. no.
 
Begbie said:
And how much is this investment going to cost?
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in the long run not as much as resurfacing roads every few years.

The council spent 1 million resurfacing a road near me and it lasted only 2-3 years before they came back

obviously you aren't going to do the whole road infrastructure in one go.

Maybe stop subsidizing green energy and other crap that only really benefits the energy companies and use the money to slowly convert city centres
 
Something that isn't addressed in the video (IIRC) is grip...

Will these things provide as much grip as tarmac, obviously not an issue in most cities but rural roads or even motorways it could become an issue.
 
arknor said:
Energy companies won't let it happen
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The economics of it won't let it happen. It's a nice idea and the more it gets people talking and thinking about alternative energy production, the better.

OT but I envisage a far-future where all forms of energy are harnessed to power mankind's ceaseless desire for bigger, faster and more. Much like the Matrix but with less killer robots. Actually, probably killer robots too
 
How long before they're stolen and sold as scrap. Wireless microprocessors or not.

Novel but I don't see it happening further than a few small car parks owned by businesses who want to be seen as "green".
 
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I love the idea, but one thing they didn't mention is what happens at night? Do they have a mass of batteries or something as that can't be cheap for the number of batteries it would need.
 
That video got really annoying a few minutes in with the constant gung-ho American attitude.

While I like the idea I don't know how well it'd work it the "real world". Its like something that'd work in the centre of built up cities but no where else which kind of defeats the whole point of it and just makes it a gimmick. I can't see these tiles lasting long on heavily congested roads withstanding constant shearing forces.
 
Begbie said:
Something that isn't addressed in the video (IIRC) is grip...

Will these things provide as much grip as tarmac, obviously not an issue in most cities but rural roads or even motorways it could become an issue.
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In the dry definitely - not convinced in the wet though looks like they'd become quite slippery when moist.

Personally I think this kind of stuff we definitely should work towards.
 
They exceed grip and weight standards, and the infrastructure to store and distribute energy at night already exists. I can't believe there are people who would see this as a negative. I would love to see this adopted en masse asap.
 
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