Solar roadway flopped

[cincydawg]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a28720252/french-solar-road-failure/?src=socialflowFBRAT&fbclid=IwAR27N2cM4L-lMNUW7XVltb9hpvHwhe1V-IuGS_IB6oTRbHHbjQQmRagtTSU

Duh.  If you want PVs, there is plenty of room for them.

[zigbee]

Good try but swing a miss by the French.  Credit for the effort nonetheless.

[cincydawg]

It's a stupid concept.  A roadway has to meet specific criteria, so let it do that.  A set of PVs have very different needs and properties, put them to the side, or on rooftops, but don't try and make something do two contrasting things for no reason.

A road needs to be smooth, inexpensive, durable, repairable cheaply, and present a decent CoF with care tires when dry or wet, and it needs to accept paint.

[zigbee]

It's a stupid concept.  A roadway has to meet specific criteria, so let it do that.  A set of PVs have very different needs and properties, put them to the side, or on rooftops, but don't try and make something do two contrasting things for no reason.

A road needs to be smooth, inexpensive, durable, repairable cheaply, and present a decent CoF with care tires when dry or wet, and it needs to accept paint.

But they were attempting to be cool.  Drive on something making electricity...sweet.

[cincydawg]

Adding induction coils to the roadway would be far more cool, and possibly practicable.