https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4
This got over 1 million dollars in crowd funding and 800K in government grants. Amazing!
Solar FREAKIN Roadways
Re: Solar FREAKIN Roadways
Can't we just let this bad idea die a long overdue death?
The daylight is uncomfortably bright for eyes so long in the dark.
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Can you imagine if they were to actually solve all the problems with this, and you had a roadway material that was cheap, durable, collected power, and transmitted it wirelessly to electric cars?
Just about that time, we get flying cars.
This is such a bad idea it is near the top of the history of bad ideas. These people must be telling themselves they'll get paid some small bit for every tile and so their greed has made them inanely stupid.
Just about that time, we get flying cars.
This is such a bad idea it is near the top of the history of bad ideas. These people must be telling themselves they'll get paid some small bit for every tile and so their greed has made them inanely stupid.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Re: Solar FREAKIN Roadways
At the rate things are going, they might as well implement these road types. At worst, it speeds the implementation of flying cars and at best they are useful additions to our roads. Cost is my concern, not practicality, for this particular idea.
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Re: Solar FREAKIN Roadways
why not, well ponder some of these figures
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/201 ... wered-car/
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/201 ... wered-car/
I am not a nuclear physicist, but play one on the internet.
Re: Solar FREAKIN Roadways
In Dave Jones' colorful style, SOLAR ROADS ARE BULLSHIT!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
With real facts and stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
With real facts and stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
Re: Solar FREAKIN Roadways
This is all very entertaining. Maybe that's the real success of this.. the lols we get from it
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Oh, I'm not expecting it to be able to power vehicles. While that would work, it wouldn't work for enough vehicles at a time to make it worthwhile.
I can, however, see the utility of it being used to power in-road lights to designate lanes and such. If nothing else, that would reduce the problem of being able to identify where the lanes actually go in otherwise poor lighting conditions.
I can, however, see the utility of it being used to power in-road lights to designate lanes and such. If nothing else, that would reduce the problem of being able to identify where the lanes actually go in otherwise poor lighting conditions.