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Solar Panel Roads
« on: May 12, 2014, 08:40:24 pm »
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I'd be more sympathetic if people here didn't act like they knew what they were saying when they were saying something very much wrong.

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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2014, 08:43:09 pm »
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2014, 08:58:14 pm »
My roomie, being tech-savvy as he is, looked this over when I found it a month or two back.

His assessment? "Yeah, it's a nice idea, but there's no proof of concept. Throw in weathering, wear and tear and weight of vehicles, and they wouldn't last two years."
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2014, 09:13:31 pm »
We already have plenty of unused roof area for solar cells before having to resort to roads.

The area is so large that we can sacrifice quite a bit of cell efficiency to make panels cheap/durable and still have enough aggregate energy to power the world.
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2014, 09:50:52 pm »
Unless every vehicle on those roads has spotless tyres, the panels will get covered up with dirt and dust within a week.

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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2014, 10:41:08 pm »
Unless every vehicle on those roads has spotless tyres, the panels will get covered up with dirt and dust within a week.

Tyres?

Is that how they spell "tires" in non-USA countries, or are you mocking the SJWs?

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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2014, 11:03:08 pm »
Unless every vehicle on those roads has spotless tyres, the panels will get covered up with dirt and dust within a week.

Tyres?

Is that how they spell "tires" in non-USA countries, or are you mocking the SJWs?

I have nothing productive to add to this topic.

It is a regional thing, yes, for once.  Surprise, Art isn't actually being sarcastic for a change.
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2014, 11:37:23 pm »
Alrighty, thanks Cerim.  Sorry for being an ignorant American, Art XD
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2014, 12:45:56 am »
A few months ago, I posted an idea about putting generation 3 PV flexible panels on standard shipping containers. They way they are built to interlock on board ship creates an offset so that an encapsulated PV set can be affixed to the steel panels on all sides except the bottoms. No crushing and minimal scraping or dirt would get on them. They don't get walked upon, either. They already have wiring harnesses for various purposes, such as daisy chaining for powering reefer cars and for transport position logging and car content ID manifest purposes.

When in transit, the electricity they generate can offset fuel use on ships and trains and tractor trailer trucks/lorries. When they are stacked dockside and in intermodal freight facitilities, they would be providing more power by using the wiring harnesses to grid tie them. Also, there are millions of acres worth of unshaded railroad right-of-ways and highway right-of-ways that could have solar PV and also small ground level VAWT wind turbines - lots of breeze created by vehicles passing. The cumulative effect of utilizing all this available, unutilized industrial and transportation space would be staggering. Since installing these systems would both save and make some money for the transportation sector, and most of what I mentioned as installation objects and places are privately owned by the shipping companies, I can't see why it wouldn't take off quickly.
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2014, 12:58:01 am »
We already have plenty of unused roof area for solar cells before having to resort to roads.

The area is so large that we can sacrifice quite a bit of cell efficiency to make panels cheap/durable and still have enough aggregate energy to power the world.

Agreed. But both of of those ideas only work on summer or on areas where there is no snow.

I for one would not waste resources making solar paneled roads in Finland. Not enough sunlight, particularly since the trees and buildings also give cover.
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2014, 06:04:36 am »
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They look pretty.

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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2014, 01:47:11 pm »
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They look pretty.

They remind me of the Crystal Maze.

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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2014, 04:47:32 pm »
If this were to prove practicable it would put the entire pothole repair industry out of business.
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Re: Solar Panel Roads
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2014, 12:18:24 am »
If this were to prove practicable it would put the entire pothole repair industry out of business.

You say that like its a bad thing. Fucking potholes.
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