When you hear that the highway trust fund is empty and that taxes need to be raised because money is urgently needed for the “nation’s crumbling infrastructure,” keep in mind that the money will be spent on this type of nonsense.
How is the efficiency with snow cover, dirt, plow damage, the pounding of 18-wheelers, etc.
This was talked about and thoroughly debunked a couple of months ago here.
CLU ...you are to build the perfect system...
All it’s going to take is one 18-wheeler with a blown tire, running on its rim, to tear up miles of this stuff.
Plus, there’s no way I can think of that they can make the surface as durable as asphalt or concrete, not to mention all the traction concerns.
To me, this sounds like another great idea (which it is, at least in theory) that is so impractical as to be impracticable.
Bury them in snow. Then run vehicles over them until the snow is as hard as concrete. Then run a snowplow over them at speed. Experiment over.
The next Solyndra.
you bet your ass. This guy is brilliant. NIce barn, beautiful view, great summers, ok winters and he has figured out how to get you to pay for it all by selling a dumb idea like this.
Everybody knows that highways don’t settle, snow plows don’t ever tear anything up, tires never go flat, freeze thaw cycle never cracks anything etc.
Of course solar panels aren’t brittle and wires aren’t fragile.
No wonder the idiots are smiling... they actually got taxpayer money for this.
It always looks pretty at the beginning —
Put it on a 100 foot stretch of rural road and see how it holds up through several seasons of rain, ice, snow and traffic.
SOLAR ! FREAKIN ! IDIOCY !!!!
If this went through, the guy would stand to make beaucoup money (un peu de francais).
Will they then get rid of those intensely revolting bird crunchers a.k.a. wind turbines, that make us America the Ugly.
Why this won’t work: