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Solar roads update

Tim the plumber

Tim the plumber

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No surprise to anybody with any understanding of how the world works. Solar roads don't work at all.

But the subsidies are entirely sustainable. Always more tax money to milk.
 
experiments involve failures. I have long questioned how durable these things would be. It is part of the reason I did not do solar shingles when I did my roof. Really expensive and far too experimental for me.
 
Tim the plumber said:
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No surprise to anybody with any understanding of how the world works. Solar roads don't work at all.

But the subsidies are entirely sustainable. Always more tax money to milk.
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Until you run out of tax payers.
 
Drawdown said:
experiments involve failures. I have long questioned how durable these things would be. It is part of the reason I did not do solar shingles when I did my roof. Really expensive and far too experimental for me.
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No kidding.

We can't keep up with repairing roads made up of asphalt. How can anyone possibly believe we could keep solar roads maintained?
 
Lord of Planar said:
No kidding.

We can't keep up with repairing roads made up of asphalt. How can anyone possibly believe we could keep solar roads maintained?
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I am not sure many people ever believed they would work well to begin with. When I first heard of them, the only upside I saw was that they possible could lead to research into more durable materials. For electric generation, they were never going to work well. I do, however, wonder if it is viable to use heat absorption from asphalt to create a radiator type set up for bridges and overpasses to keep them from freezing over more readily in winter weather.
 
Tim the plumber said:
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No surprise to anybody with any understanding of how the world works. Solar roads don't work at all.

But the subsidies are entirely sustainable. Always more tax money to milk.
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Do you have any evidence that the government is subsidizing solar roads?
 
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