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World's First Solar Road Opens in Normandy, France

Goshin said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the cars are driving ON the photovoltaic surfacing right?


Seems like a busy road would wear it out quickly. In my area the DOT can't even keep the Interstate free from dangerous potholes... I have trouble seeing how a solar roadway could long survive, especially if heavy transfer trucks are driving on it.


Up north they'd be covered in snow half the year.


At several million $ per kilometer just to install (and I wonder about maint costs) it doesn't seem worth it.
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No kidding. Not only is it not worth it, the entire concept of solar roadways is extremely flawed once you really think about it.
 
TheGoverness said:
No kidding. Not only is it not worth it, the entire concept of solar roadways is extremely flawed once you really think about it.
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It's crazy! What a waste of solar panels!


1. Flat on the ground.

2. Oil, tire rubber, dirt etc grime accumulating on surface.

3. Constant pounding of cars and trucks that wears out asphalt over a few years.

4. Flat tires, blowouts and rims on the roadway, ACCIDENTS, debris.

5. Snow on the road in many areas. Now imagine a SNOWPLOW scraping the road!

6. Ice. Cold, heat, thermal warping and cracking. Plants trying to grow through cracks in the surface beneath... the plants won't flourish with traffic beating them down but they can and do make small cracks.


7. Unless the panels are each individually wired, one panel going out can take several out of the circuit... every time that has to be fixed it is a traffic jam on a busy road.



Nuts!
 
It's a two year experiment to test out the wilder suppositions made here and probably a few serious ones they thought of themselves. It's not a major highway, just a back road through a village. 2,000 cars per day. Less than a car every minute over 24 hrs. It has some kind of silicate resin coating.
 
Manc Skipper said:
It's a two year experiment to test out the wilder suppositions made here and probably a few serious ones they thought of themselves. It's not a major highway, just a back road through a village. 2,000 cars per day. Less than a car every minute over 24 hrs. It has some kind of silicate resin coating.
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What wilder suppositions?
 
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