Nuking LIBs from orbit is the only way to be sure.
I saw the thing years ago, and thought “Hey. If they can make that work, power to them...” It wasn’t something I would have even considered.
But it is funny to see the Solar company guy who wrote the article lambaste the other company.
He doesn’t see that many people view him and his product the same way.
He was probably feeling threatened because his subsidy money might go somewhere else...
It is actually a concept from nano-technology.
As nano-technology was concieved, the ability to engineer items with atom by atom precision would allow for robust roads that would be self repairing, and which would generate power from solar cells built into the road.
We are not there yet, but we keep making technological advances toward robust nano-tech. It seems likely that the tech will advance to that level as some point.
We already have a working example of robust nano-technology. We call it biology.
I remember when I first saw this. I’m all for cool ideas, but it looked as dumb as the RCA needle-in-a-groove videodiscs. It looked like a classic example of paying ten bucks to save 5 bucks.
Looks like the problem was with the control box, not the solar cells themselves.