Comments on: “Solar Roads” Could Power the Future http://www.ridelust.com/solar-roads-could-power-the-future/ - Motion + Mobility Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alex http://www.ridelust.com/solar-roads-could-power-the-future/#comment-31641 Alex Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:00:24 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=30403#comment-31641 wow even i notice that this will be a financially impossible dream to achieve...... really even if we do happen to compose all the roads into solar panels will it even sustain the weight of 8-wheelers?? literally sparks are going to fly with this project. hey i dont want to be the negative teen girl here thumbs up for thinking green here but seriously its just an insane idea. until we can design electrical power light weight cars that a computer can drive to the drivers satisfaction and that dont use a gut load of energy............ well we can jus say that this idea goes into the trash cans.... wow even i notice that this will be a financially impossible dream to achieve…… really even if we do happen to compose all the roads into solar panels will it even sustain the weight of 8-wheelers?? literally sparks are going to fly with this project. hey i dont want to be the negative teen girl here thumbs up for thinking green here but seriously its just an insane idea. until we can design electrical power light weight cars that a computer can drive to the drivers satisfaction and that dont use a gut load of energy………… well we can jus say that this idea goes into the trash cans….

]]> By: Will http://www.ridelust.com/solar-roads-could-power-the-future/#comment-12305 Will Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:58:27 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=30403#comment-12305 Can you say preposterous? Go back and re-read what this piece of...says. Look at the outlandish claims("...it will take about $5 billion to cover all of the asphalt surfaces in the U.S..."). Do the math: 12'x12' panel = 144 ft². One mile of roadway = 24'x5280' = 126,720 ft² divided by 144 ft² times $7,000 per panel = $6.2 MILLION per mile, just for the panels, not including all the infrastructure and equipment to do *anything* with the electricity produced (a fraction of the 7.6 KWh per panel ridiculously predicted, trust me) -- even with just that, $5 billion gets you just 810 miles of roadway... Can you say preposterous?

Go back and re-read what this piece of…says. Look at the outlandish claims(“…it will take about $5 billion to cover all of the asphalt surfaces in the U.S…”). Do the math: 12′x12′ panel = 144 ft². One mile of roadway = 24′x5280′ = 126,720 ft² divided by 144 ft² times $7,000 per panel = $6.2 MILLION per mile, just for the panels, not including all the infrastructure and equipment to do *anything* with the electricity produced (a fraction of the 7.6 KWh per panel ridiculously predicted, trust me) — even with just that, $5 billion gets you just 810 miles of roadway…

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