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It has my vote, but I still have to drive a lot. Not sure a solar vehicle would survive 24" of snow when I have to do signal survey and a suburban almost gets stuck, much less the roads working at all.I vote work from home 5 days a week, occasionally show up to work so they don't forget our face (but that too can be resolved by video conferencing).
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Bare in mind that roads are bad for nature and directly contribute to "global warming" as well. They displace plants, cause animals to die, and destroy habitats during construction. We need to be moving away from roads altogether.it should be the goal we work towards even if it is out of our reach right now.
i mean come on they're SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS!!!!!!!
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Are you kidding me? That will kill the environment. What we need is hot air ballons that heat via nuclear waste. This will allow zero carbon emissions and no environmental impact on the landscape. Of course we will have to raise taxes to help fund the EPA's new hot air balloon environmentally safe balloon shapes division but, in the long run our children will finally live our dream of being mistaken for really slow moving UFO's. Always remember......ITS FOR THE CHILDREN!YOU ARE ALL WRONG.
The solution to all our energy problems is nuclear roadways. No, not roadways that generate nuclear energy, but roads paved with high concentrations of nuclear waste.
In a few years, nobody will be worried about energy production anymore. I guarantee it.
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motion does not equal production.
Nuclear is our only current hope of stopping this spreading solar disease, when you consider the earth damage from the mining, purification, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, sales, installation and maintenance of solar cells they are a niche idea that works for niche areas. Much like high current batteries are worse for the earth with all the toxins and waste produced.
People think these items are "green" when in fact they move the pollution to a country with significantly less stringent environmental laws to make them, and make them cheaper, thus causing more pollution overall.
Mass public transit, with energy efficient vehicles. Make them electric, but stop trying to use hideous solar cells to power them when it doesn't work. Plant a tree instead, or something that produces food for you to eat that might save a trip to the store.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
Its only true because they say its true, and because they say its true it must be true cause they say its true.
See any pattern here? Much like the man stuck in the wash rinse repeat cycle in his own shower unless you are willing to consider alternate data you have already failed. the purpose of testing isn't to prove something works, but to see what breaks and fails, according to them, they have passed testing....but I haven't seen it, and no one else has, and videos of kids playing basket ball inside a shop isn't enough proof for me. Where is the blown out tire on a semitruck doing 80 fully loaded coming down a 8 degree hill in the fog test? Or the concrete truck brake lockup test? Or the traffic jam 104F day test where roads get heated by the sun and by catalytic converters?
Could we make it work? Yep, but as mentioned by others, it isn't feasable. We would be better off launching a huge space reflector to shine on the earth to light it in darkness and focusing the beam to melt snow.
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I just go out in my yard sometimes and rev the V8 in my truck just because I hate polar bears. They are always all coked up. If fusion stops this practice I'm totally against it.Given the energy output of the Sun and the potential, solar will be a reality in the future for energy consumption. It's a far away path but it's worth traveling down. Solar roads though aren't what folks should be aiming at. Our current levels of materials science are progressing for the necessary constituents of both photovoltaic and it's storage during night time or 'Sunless' days. These things are a laboratory endeavour now and one day will be a reality, as long as the lobby groups don;t get their oil knickers in a twist.
But as mentioned Fusion is the future. It's doable but really fucking expensive to research and develop but the costs of developing it will be dwarfed by it's power production. We split the atom to kill hundreds of thousands, then we used it wisely for energy. Fusing the atom is way harder but it's end result is practically energy nirvana and it is a realistic effort. Clean power is in our childrens or grandchildrens future, not ours but we need to put the money in now, that's the reality of it. Do you value humanity or yourself?
Who am i kidding, I know what people value - we're all fucked. Sadly.
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Technology is in development and has been develop for pollution/toxic less/free panels Ex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_telluride_photovoltaics#Safety
Not to mention efficiency improvements which are happening regardless of Solar Roads or not. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/23/3451684/future-of-solar-technology/
Most of the production can use recycled material which is something they aim for.
Like I said we are basically taking their word for it atm and I don't think you have to worry about some half assed project being released for public use. Before this paves the way for modern use you can be rested assured it would have gone through extensive testing. This is still in its infancy, yes its clearly important for it to be safe as well as work. But its like your saying rockets are never going to work to send people to the moon because they'll explode and kill everyone leaving the atmosphere before you have even built the final rocket for extensive testing.
lol so a huge space reflector is more feasible than solar panels, yeah ok.
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No what it is are lobbyist trying to create an industry via government financing under a lot of false pretense's and scare tactics. It has nothing to do with the environment or saving the planet for our children. Its about political graft.These "inventors" have made a solution in need of a problem, and are trying to create a movement based on their unrealistic ideas and want for it to work.
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No what it is are lobbyist trying to create an industry via government financing under a lot of false pretense's and scare tactics. It has nothing to do with the environment or saving the planet for our children. Its about political graft.
I'm all about green energy but bring me something realistic and cheap or don't bother. I mean the one agency that could make something with alternative energy happen was NASA and they cut them down to the bone yet they INCREASED the spending in the EPA........for what? Regulation to bypass congress. Seriously its a cluster f#CK. This is why I question EVERYTHING "Science" says nowadays. Got to follow the money to see what's really happening.
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I'd just like to state the obvious here: nuclear power is cheaper than solar even under the best of circumstances for solar. Why? Because reasons:The end game here is electricity, which can be made much more effectively, reliably, and efficiently with less waste with nuclear. So again, the difference here is people buying into this idea, and people can be dumb enough to overpay for things they don't need, based on a false idea, if I need to list some I certainly can.
Insults aside. You seem to be thinking the glass they are using is the stuff your window is made out of. Their glass is harder than asphalt and has been load tested. All I read are your reasoning's as for why this won't work but you have 0 corroborative data and they actually have some. So I'm going to side with the project and if it fails at least we tried. Now if they are lying on their site than that is an other can of worms. Now if you mean actually seeing charts of data with results to backup their claims, all in good time.
http://www.solarroadways.com/faq.shtml
Well people would argue about a lot of things, but until its put to practice we won't really know. I'd rather see this project tried and failed. Fusion has had its chance for 57+ years now and I see no real progress toward a practical application to benefit man kind (yet). Obviously we need more time and funding but solar roadways would need less. Implement solar roadways, if its a success use the money saved to develop other technologies.
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@ lilhasselhoffer second point about asphalt make up. There is also much more in this statment. Heat and expansion have a lot to do with the resilience of a road and how it disperses weight. If you have a dense platform like glass or even ruby was mentioned there is ZERO chance for expansion.....or enough expansion to disperse a tractor trailer suddenly jackknifing and falling over at 70 MPH. Never mind all the sudden temperature changes like going from 130 degree's in the sun to 70 degrees in seconds due to rain.
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You are either an idiot or a troll. I cannot determine which. I don't say this as an insult, but as a statement of fact.
Likewise, I would be an idiot in the arena of competitive chess. Please allow yourself to objectively consider the facts, rather than listening to a salesman sell their snake oil.
Now, listen to someone who is going to slow this down and not obscure the facts like these shiftless asses.
1) Mechanical strength is not one factor. If it was there'd be no such thing as heat treating steels. These morons equate hardness to strength, without ever factoring in anything else. Tensile strength, elastic deformation, and the fact that roadways are aggregate+asphault somehow eludes these morons.
2) A roadway is a heterogeneous mixture, and thus cannot have a measured strength. It can have an average load tolerance, but since the chunks or rock making it up are of variable composition the material does not have one uniform set of mechanical properties. The data they cite is therefore completely easy to dismiss as either falsified information or utter ignorance.
3) Borosilicate glass (the stuff they make coffee pots out of) has a very high hardness. Give me less then 10 minutes with an eraser and some gravel and I can mar the crap out of that surface. A car applies more force than my hand, and Borosilicate glass has other bad properties.
4) Glass does not deform, it shatters. Even safety glass will eventually break down, and this glass needs to be optically transmissive to function as a solar collector. Just because the surface is somehow "rough enough to provide traction" (a claim that has never been demonstrated), doesn't mean that it will wear well.
5) Even if you made the road out of artificial ruby, one chunk of ceramic at high speeds can still start a catastrophic chain reaction of shattering panes.
6) Show me any data they have collected. Any. You can't do it on the site you've linked to.
a) Material data was copied from commonly available tables.
b) Cost data was taken from DoT reports, and contains nothing related to how they are going to "save lives and dollar."
c) Where are the experimental results? Saying "our product can stop a car going 80 mph" is meaningless. If the car can stop in 220', rather than the 70' a roadway allows you've got a major safety concern.
d) Where are the FEA results? "We did FEA" is a moronic claim. FEA requires substantial knowledge of underlying mechanical properties, including loading scenarios, that these people have demonstrated that they don't have. I've seen someone demonstrate that a 5 ton elephant can be supported on a 1" diameter 12" long balsa wood rod with a deflection of 0.100". Garbage in, garbage out.
e) How much energy do these freaking things produce. It's a simple question, that they never answer. I'll help you out here, hook a multimeter up to a load cell and measure power output from a sample cell. This might take 20 minutes, but they haven't bothered to do it during several years of testing. What utter crap!
f) Everything else wrong with their "data." They don't provide data, they appeal to people wanting green energy solutions. That's a great way to sell Valentine's chocolate, but an unacceptable way to sell science.
7) They've already gotten $750,000 from the DoT, yet they don't have more than a few feet of prototype. At that cost we'll have a mile of roadway for about a Billion dollar. To my European friends, that's $1.000.000.000,00. How in the Hell does this match up to a solar plant with more than 10 times the solar cells, significantly increased efficiency, and much cheaper maintenance?
8) Where is the demonstration. You've got a test strip, yet the only pictures are direct on views at night. Where is the proof that this is visible from a car during the day? It's easy to demonstrate, but they haven't. For something so easy to prove, to be overlooked so completely, is a sign of stupidity of failure. Either way, you have to start doubting the voracity of the claims being made.
9) Where does the power come from at night? You don't have a trillion batteries, so the power grid will be tasked with providing the energy at night. Even if the solar cells could run the lights all day, you'd lose any power savings when the sun went down.
10) These solar cells don't have a nuclear reactor core. They couldn't therefore melt any more snow than the sun already does. Thus, the idea that a cell buried beneath 1" of snow could ever melt itself free is a terrible joke. The snow on top always melts first, because solar energy is absorbed there first.
11) Military applications, really? These people propose the Mars Rover in a solar cell. Need I remind people that a several thousand dollar "disposable" data acquisition platform is neither green (pollution from not being disposed of), nor cost effective. This does not even address the fact that it would shut-down during the night or whenever it is heavily overshadowed.
12) These roadways would kill more people than anyone could imagine. Glass dust in lungs kills relatively quickly. Shards of roadway could pass through car glass and kill entire families. A broken surface would shred tires in mere moments. It kind seems like their claims of saved money and better safety are easy to debunk.
Let's ignore everything else. The one underlying concern that should kill this project immediately is that these people have zero knowledge of practical sciences, and zero practical knowledge of engineering. They claim that solar roads could somehow melt snow, which asphault cannot currently. As asphault is functionally a black body, and solar collector+heater will necessarily be less efficient than it. How do they get 1+1=200 is beyond any logic. They then claim material properties are mutable, and tempering magically makes glass more durable. Search our "spark plug through car window" on youtube, and you'll see exactly how foolish this statement is. They claim all of these things, and then never back it up with facts.
Liars will lie. Cheaters will cheat. Scientists will research. Whenever you've got someone who claims to be a scientist falsifying data, and asking for money you can be assured that the one thing they aren't is a scientist. These people are trying to sell the idea of green power, without actually delivering on it. This is why I think people supported the project, despite its impossible roots.
If you want a solar array put it on the top of a building. It can track the sun, resist damage, and it will be at a fraction of the cost of these solar roads.
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Guess you don't care much about the sea life that also relies on those currents, nor the consequences of what would happen should the currents slow (catastrophic climate change). The technology is virtually the same as what is used to harness wind power and they kill birds. Life in ocean currents is far more dense.Personally I would like to see a safe usage of ocean currents to produce a form of Hydroelectricity. If we are talking in the realm of Science fiction to me this would be the safest and greenest alternative I can think of. Earth will ALWAYS have currents and they are perpetual. Sunshine or not.
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Guess you don't care much about the sea life that also relies on those currents, nor the consequences of what would happen should the currents slow (catastrophic climate change). The technology is virtually the same as what is used to harness wind power and they kill birds. Life in ocean currents is far more dense.
A few to power a small outpost, sure, but not grid.
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Thorium is here, a lot safer and more abundant.Why when uranium is here, and is decaying used or not, we can use it buy choose not to as its scary for some.
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To generate power from a fluid, you must design a wing that is propelled by the fluid. The energy of the fluid is transferred to the wing. Conservation of energy dictates that if you are generating energy of one type, you must be taking it from another; thusly, the only way to harness a fluid is to slow the fluid.Currents won't slow and I'm not saying anything about wind turbines underwater. What I am saying if we are going to invest in experimental tech it should use ocean current.
Breeder reactors could be here and they'll use both, turning them into plutonium which can in turn be used to power satellites. The only reason why they aren't is because they can weaponize uranium.Thorium is here, a lot safer and more abundant.
Their faqs page answers some of the questions you have although maybe not in the detail you want. You should send them an email with all those questions and let us know what they say. I don't work for them and I'm not an expert on subject. If you feel they are out there to scam and harm people maybe you should start a protest or a campaign against them. Otherwise I don't see where you are getting at arguing with me, a mere idiot or troll. I do it for the discussion but would stop if I felt as though the person I was speaking too didn't understand or was doing it to be an ass, so I don't believe you really think of me as such. I personally see that if this project succeeds, it will function to the extent of their claim, as it will surely either not make it for public use or if it does, adequately handle the task of a solar road.
Since it hasn't even been a few months since they raised the money they needed to continue with their project, I suspect most of your questions can't even be answered yet. If your taking that as a sign of failure, well by all means see it as you will. They have time to come up with results (As I'm sure they have much more pressure to do so now more than ever). As I said in due time, they will give results or face even more scrutiny.
They are glass panels, so one breaking should not cause a chain reaction. Also we have glass that deforms. Glass is pretty dynamic and not all behave or are created the same. As for smudging they talk about that on their site a bit.
For hardcore data, I can't really say anything, without fabricating it myself. That is for them to provide of which I'm sure they eventually will.
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Not properly done. Hydroelectric is on the up rise in China in rivers alone. I was born and raised in Florida. I don't think you understand how vast the ocean is. I really don't think you have a concept how many turbines it would take to effect a current.To generate power from a fluid, you must design a wing that is propelled by the fluid. The energy of the fluid is transferred to the wing. Conservation of energy dictates that if you are generating energy of one type, you must be taking it from another; thusly, the only way to harness a fluid is to slow the fluid.
Wind is a fluid; water is a fluid. By nature, their designs are similar.
Slowing the currents either indirectly or directly can lead to drastic changes in localized climates. It's like slowing an artery in your body. The tissues supplied by that artery will become anemic and can even potentially die. The ocean currents are no different in terms the health of the biosphere. If we're going to invest in "experimental tech" it should be zero-impact (or as close to zero as possible) tech.
Remember that chart I put up a while ago about fusion investment? Here's another one:
Note the black lines (the construction permits). Put bluntly, the fall of nuclear meant the fall of fusion because power was no longer cheap and abundant enough to make a fusion power plant achieve criticality. We know what the future is and is almost zero-impact yet, we're not even seriously trying to achieve it.
Another funny thing. See how that chart shows the last nuclear power plants to come online did so in the mid 1990s? We're 20 years later and still get over 20% of energy from them. We traded our machine guns, tanks, artillery, and bombers for rocks. How we get energy is devolving, not evolving. "Solar roads" concept is simply another demonstration of this devolution.
To reiterate, underwater turbines are deceptive in that, in large scale, they may be more destructive than even 50 Chernobyl NPP meltdowns happening simultaneously and not to mention, you'll have a lot less electricity to show for it.
Breeder reactors could be here and they'll use both, turning them into plutonium which can in turn be used to power satellites. The only reason why they aren't is because they can weaponize uranium.