| Solar Roadway - Pie in the sky? [message #96342] |
Wed, 18 August 2010 17:19  |
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ljdavick
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Fremont, CA
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We may never have to worry about hook-ups if we could just plug in to the road.
I think this video is fascinating - a group of people really thinking creatively about new road systems. More than road systems, they suggest it could replace, augment, modernize the various electrical grids we have combing our land. How this would handle the freeze / thaw of the upper states is beyond me.
<http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/video/2010/061810.htm>
Larry Davick
A Mystery Machine
1976(ish) Palm Beach
Fremont, Ca
Howell EFI + EBL + Electronic Dizzy
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| Re: Solar Roadway - Pie in the sky? [message #96483 is a reply to message #96342] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 06:25  |
hertfordnc
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Location: East NC
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I'm not feeling it.
They got federal grant money and made a feel-good video with images of landfills, heart-felt questions about future generations and very little actual data.
For every dollar we apply to renewable technology there are a bunch more dollars the oil companies will apply to extracting more fossil fuel from the ground and more efficient ways of converting it to motion.
There may be some limited application for solar panels embedded in the roadway but for the foreseeable future, solar is expensive enough as it is without making panels you can drive a truck over.
How about just getting a solar/battery backup on traffic lights so we can have traffic signals when the power goes out?
Dave & Ellen Silva
Hertford, NC
76 Birchaven, 1-ton and other stuff
Currently planning the Great american Road Trip Summer 2021
It's gonna take a lot of Adderall to get this thing right.
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| Re: Solar Roadway - Pie in the sky? [message #96551 is a reply to message #96342] |
Fri, 20 August 2010 15:16 |
Chr$
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Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Or how do you keep millions of miles of these roadways clean. Rubber, oil, gas, roadkill, etc. will coat these just like a regular road. Ever wonder why roads are blacktop?
-Chr$: Perpetual SmartAss
Scottsdale, AZ
77 Ex-Kingsley 455 SOLD!
2010 Nomad 24 Ft TT 390W PV W/MPPT, EV4010 and custom cargo door.
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