What If We Covered Our Roads with Solar Panels?
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Date: 2023-11-26
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JUR
Black roads heat up the earth aka cities a lot, do solar panels get hot? Yes, so in Germany they gonna heat up there whole cities into 1 black shit, ironic. all this commentary and still not accepting villiages in the hills in itally and white houses in Greece are the future. Not beginning with the lack of houses or their great immigration problems creating this problem. And they always said poor people polute more, not totally true if you got no money, some poor people have a mobile phone and that's it and a crib, in western terms maybe, unhappiness let people buy things, lack of housing is unhappiness and only q happy house is useble on the longer term(furniture) still all this separate houses use a lot of energy so appertment should be the answer. they don't want to accept the world need to be q backpack and q bike on the wall! This leaders are the biggest disaster since human history! I think they make it worse like always! Renting shit houses were you cannot place a wall means buying and throwing away till you're new house and the circle begins! But the big house, tesla, etc etc and the biggest tree killer ikea are nothing better!
So. Greece, Spain, and itally are the truth, same as France since they still got a lot of forest
People forgot that if you're computer heats up you need watercooling -and maybe 2021 problems are for computer kids
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Black roads heat up the earth aka cities a lot, do solar panels get hot? Yes, so in Germany they gonna heat up there whole cities into 1 black shit, ironic. all this commentary and still not accepting villiages in the hills in itally and white houses in Greece are the future. Not beginning with the lack of houses or their great immigration problems creating this problem. And they always said poor people polute more, not totally true if you got no money, some poor people have a mobile phone and that's it and a crib, in western terms maybe, unhappiness let people buy things, lack of housing is unhappiness and only q happy house is useble on the longer term(furniture) still all this separate houses use a lot of energy so appertment should be the answer. they don't want to accept the world need to be q backpack and q bike on the wall! This leaders are the biggest disaster since human history! I think they make it worse like always! Renting shit houses were you cannot place a wall means buying and throwing away till you're new house and the circle begins! But the big house, tesla, etc etc and the biggest tree killer ikea are nothing better!
So. Greece, Spain, and itally are the truth, same as France since they still got a lot of forest
People forgot that if you're computer heats up you need watercooling -and maybe 2021 problems are for computer kids
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David
This Solar Roadways concept is one of the biggest scams in history. They continue to get both state and federal funding for their pipe dream of building roadways that generate electricity. It doesn't stand up to any serious analysis of the practicality of using solar panels to pave a road. Yet as recently as January of this year they have posted on their blog. -In January 2022, Solar Roadways received both FCC (US) and ISED (Canada) approval! - That's because the individual hexagon tiles have small radios that talk to each other. How are these people still pulling off this major scam that wastes millions of taxpayer and university dollars? (yes, some universities have put large amounts of money behind this fraud) Check out Thunderf00t's video from August of 2014 debunking the concept and see what a critical review of the proposed benefits bears out.
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This Solar Roadways concept is one of the biggest scams in history. They continue to get both state and federal funding for their pipe dream of building roadways that generate electricity. It doesn't stand up to any serious analysis of the practicality of using solar panels to pave a road. Yet as recently as January of this year they have posted on their blog. -In January 2022, Solar Roadways received both FCC (US) and ISED (Canada) approval! - That's because the individual hexagon tiles have small radios that talk to each other. How are these people still pulling off this major scam that wastes millions of taxpayer and university dollars? (yes, some universities have put large amounts of money behind this fraud) Check out Thunderf00t's video from August of 2014 debunking the concept and see what a critical review of the proposed benefits bears out.
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Harvey
This is questionable tech. Every road is in need of a resurface from time to time. This was not addressed in the video and is important. The roads surface would be subject to degradation every time a tire drives over it. Instead place panels on the far edges of the ditches where they are least likely to be hit, and on the shoulders, but not on driving surface itself. The tire wear alone would mean massive continual replacement costs for less electricity generated as traffic itself would dirty the panels. These costs would not exist if the sides of ditches, and shoulders of the road, were the paneled areas. The overall idea is good but the placement on the driving surface itself is a bad one.
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This is questionable tech. Every road is in need of a resurface from time to time. This was not addressed in the video and is important. The roads surface would be subject to degradation every time a tire drives over it. Instead place panels on the far edges of the ditches where they are least likely to be hit, and on the shoulders, but not on driving surface itself. The tire wear alone would mean massive continual replacement costs for less electricity generated as traffic itself would dirty the panels. These costs would not exist if the sides of ditches, and shoulders of the road, were the paneled areas. The overall idea is good but the placement on the driving surface itself is a bad one.
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Carp
Why the hell would you drive cars on solar panels? What is the purpose? Why not just put the panels along the side of the road where they won't get destroyed by tires and don't have cars blocking the sun half of the day?
It also bothers me that they think converting sunlight into electrical energy and then back into LED light will produce more light than if the original sunlight was just reflected.
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Why the hell would you drive cars on solar panels? What is the purpose? Why not just put the panels along the side of the road where they won't get destroyed by tires and don't have cars blocking the sun half of the day?
It also bothers me that they think converting sunlight into electrical energy and then back into LED light will produce more light than if the original sunlight was just reflected.
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Tranquility
This has been debunked to death. Solar panels as a road surface is a total waste of money.
Ever noticed that solar panel installations are on an angle? Putting them on an angle towards the sun -doubles- the power output of each panel.
It's cheaper, easier and more efficient to put them on rooftops, like we already do. The pannels generate more power and are less likely to be damaged.
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This has been debunked to death. Solar panels as a road surface is a total waste of money.
Ever noticed that solar panel installations are on an angle? Putting them on an angle towards the sun -doubles- the power output of each panel.
It's cheaper, easier and more efficient to put them on rooftops, like we already do. The pannels generate more power and are less likely to be damaged.
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HDTomo
Another idea would also be to have absorbent roads to absorb kinetic energy from cars on these solar roads into it's own energy. If we are going electric cars we could use the roads both to charge cars and society and get even more from extracting that kinetic energy. If coal is shut down, we can instead use it to create coal products which could see a rapid drop in those types of prices
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Another idea would also be to have absorbent roads to absorb kinetic energy from cars on these solar roads into it's own energy. If we are going electric cars we could use the roads both to charge cars and society and get even more from extracting that kinetic energy. If coal is shut down, we can instead use it to create coal products which could see a rapid drop in those types of prices
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Play
None - Absolutely none of the solar roadways, footpaths, bike lanes built until now has worked. There is a new experiment with a footpath in the Netherlands going online right now. Even if this one seems to work, the building cost are at least 10x higher than a system of equal power on a rooftop. It's just a stupit idea to walk or drive on solar panels.
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None - Absolutely none of the solar roadways, footpaths, bike lanes built until now has worked. There is a new experiment with a footpath in the Netherlands going online right now. Even if this one seems to work, the building cost are at least 10x higher than a system of equal power on a rooftop. It's just a stupit idea to walk or drive on solar panels.
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Yuval
3: 18 they would cause an economic collapse just for building them, then they-re extremely high maintenance costs would cause another economic collapse. And then people would discover that there is a reason solar panels aren-t built flat with thick glass on top of them and hopefully it would change the role by teaching humanity a lesson.
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3: 18 they would cause an economic collapse just for building them, then they-re extremely high maintenance costs would cause another economic collapse. And then people would discover that there is a reason solar panels aren-t built flat with thick glass on top of them and hopefully it would change the role by teaching humanity a lesson.
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Vitamin
Solar tech is getting better, but doing rooftops seems a lot easier to implement than entire roads. You wont need as much strong glass or LEDs. Simply making things has environmental impact. Maybe keep the self-heating part for the snowy regions.
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Solar tech is getting better, but doing rooftops seems a lot easier to implement than entire roads. You wont need as much strong glass or LEDs. Simply making things has environmental impact. Maybe keep the self-heating part for the snowy regions.
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thomas
If that were possible, it might be a neat idea for making clean power. But, even amorphous solar cells have some electronics and machining; thus, you couldn't have a semi, i. e. 10-wheeler, rolling over the solar cells without constant damage.
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If that were possible, it might be a neat idea for making clean power. But, even amorphous solar cells have some electronics and machining; thus, you couldn't have a semi, i. e. 10-wheeler, rolling over the solar cells without constant damage.
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Ashish
The way to Implement Solar in Every City before 2030,
Solution to Finance, Transmission Loss, Pollution, EV Charging on the Go, Climate Change, unemployment, n many more benefits
Solar ROOF/Shade on Road + Ads-
lightenmyways
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The way to Implement Solar in Every City before 2030,
Solution to Finance, Transmission Loss, Pollution, EV Charging on the Go, Climate Change, unemployment, n many more benefits
Solar ROOF/Shade on Road + Ads-
lightenmyways
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herauthon
this is the road to nowhere
lifespan - angle to sun - transparency of glass - energy use by panel - nightime =0 power
why don't you build pannels next to roads. and they turn with the sun. and i get 1% of the $-yield-
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this is the road to nowhere
lifespan - angle to sun - transparency of glass - energy use by panel - nightime =0 power
why don't you build pannels next to roads. and they turn with the sun. and i get 1% of the $-yield-
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education
What if every building had solar panels. And also, what if we painted all roads white to keep our planet a bit cooler since darker colors absorb the sunlight more causing more heat and lighter colors reflect the sunlight.
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What if every building had solar panels. And also, what if we painted all roads white to keep our planet a bit cooler since darker colors absorb the sunlight more causing more heat and lighter colors reflect the sunlight.
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njm
Honestly. Its not a bad idea. But the technology needs be refined, costs brought down to make it viable. Asphalt and parking spaces are already useless. I think putting solar panels just about everywhere we can is a great idea.
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Honestly. Its not a bad idea. But the technology needs be refined, costs brought down to make it viable. Asphalt and parking spaces are already useless. I think putting solar panels just about everywhere we can is a great idea.
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Kushagra
Other than moon what if we build a reflector out of solar panels in front of venus
It would serve two tasks:
Making energy and reducing venus' temperature and maybe making it suitable to live upon in near future
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Other than moon what if we build a reflector out of solar panels in front of venus
It would serve two tasks:
Making energy and reducing venus' temperature and maybe making it suitable to live upon in near future
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strato
Solar panels in the road surface is a genuinely bad idea. In putting solar panels in the road you are exposing them to wear, dirt, poor orientation to the sun, and making it wildly expensive to resurface the road.
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Solar panels in the road surface is a genuinely bad idea. In putting solar panels in the road you are exposing them to wear, dirt, poor orientation to the sun, and making it wildly expensive to resurface the road.
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Mechant
Put the panels beside the road where they can be tilted towards the sun for somewhat decent efficiency and whete driving won-t destroy them. A solar roadway is rank idiocy.
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Put the panels beside the road where they can be tilted towards the sun for somewhat decent efficiency and whete driving won-t destroy them. A solar roadway is rank idiocy.
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Aditya
What if we could create some kind of road which would use the kinetic energy of Vehicles going above it and turn it into electricity? Just an idea anyone can improvise.
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What if we could create some kind of road which would use the kinetic energy of Vehicles going above it and turn it into electricity? Just an idea anyone can improvise.
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FatRonaldo1
Unfortunately spending half a trillion pounds on something that will meet 5% of electricity demands sounds exactly like something our government would do
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Unfortunately spending half a trillion pounds on something that will meet 5% of electricity demands sounds exactly like something our government would do
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education
Looks solar roads scam: cause price to build it, aint worth the outcome, and its turning to slipper ice skating ring just if its raining. Nah, just nah
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Looks solar roads scam: cause price to build it, aint worth the outcome, and its turning to slipper ice skating ring just if its raining. Nah, just nah
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Bonnie
Ya know, when I 1st saw solar road ways a few years ago, I got excited. However, it got -debunked- and shoved back so hard, hardly anyone knows about it.
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Ya know, when I 1st saw solar road ways a few years ago, I got excited. However, it got -debunked- and shoved back so hard, hardly anyone knows about it.
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Dave
A bike path could power a house for a year, or so could solar panels put on an energy efficient house.
Glad that you point out the problems at least.
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A bike path could power a house for a year, or so could solar panels put on an energy efficient house.
Glad that you point out the problems at least.
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BlueThunderO7
4: 48 that whole using smart solar roads to charge electric vehicles as they drive over them literally sounds like something off of F-Zero lol.
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4: 48 that whole using smart solar roads to charge electric vehicles as they drive over them literally sounds like something off of F-Zero lol.
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Lesego
Governments could hire those who lost their job and give them the job like maintaining the solar panel roads or cleaning up the roads or replacing
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Governments could hire those who lost their job and give them the job like maintaining the solar panel roads or cleaning up the roads or replacing
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Fibr3Optix
Bottom line. you cant put solar panels underthings that are wearing it down. It produces less energy not the 100% This has been debunked 100x.
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Bottom line. you cant put solar panels underthings that are wearing it down. It produces less energy not the 100% This has been debunked 100x.
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Mechant
Of the places to put solar panels on, a road is the worst choice. It literally makes no sense. Who on Earth thought this was a good idea?
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Of the places to put solar panels on, a road is the worst choice. It literally makes no sense. Who on Earth thought this was a good idea?
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Anurag
Solar roads can be a good way to reduce our pollution and greenhouse effect, however this requires careful planning from the governments.
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Solar roads can be a good way to reduce our pollution and greenhouse effect, however this requires careful planning from the governments.
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Anaylitical
Cool idea but let-s be honest efficiency, Cost and work required for maintenance is a large issue and outweighs the benefits.
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Cool idea but let-s be honest efficiency, Cost and work required for maintenance is a large issue and outweighs the benefits.
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Itz_Arush
Even think about solar cars -
This would end much of global warming
All cars will be electrical no fuels no pollution
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Even think about solar cars -
This would end much of global warming
All cars will be electrical no fuels no pollution
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jchong416
Aren't cars going to be covering the roads for most of the days? Also the cost of maintenance will be sky high
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Aren't cars going to be covering the roads for most of the days? Also the cost of maintenance will be sky high
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