Where are they today?
That was always the main reason to begin with I’m sure.
Where are they today?
If certain Leftist could make money off of the wall we’d have a wall.
The Left is UNWILLING to listen to people who have technical capability that they simply DO NOT HAVE - otherwise they wouldn’t have majored in liberal arts and women’s studies.
So they fall for crap like Solyndra and this ‘solar road’...every time. That’s why putting them in charge of spending tax money is VERY RISKY for any country.
Try,fail, figure out why, try again.
The earlier step of paving a driveway with solar cells works.
I am happy they are trying to lower our carbon footprint and not just complaining about it.
They expected global warming to increase the sunshine.
Watt? It Failed? That’s unpossible!
What a dumb idea! Any one of us could have told them that! And no one is accountable for the waste of taxpayer money.
WITH YOUR OWN MONEY!!!
They learned well from the Barack Obama School of Solar Energy.
I am all for trying new things as an experiment but this could have been done on a much smaller scale at a much lower price.
It’s been known for >40 yrs that the efficiency of photo cells depends on their surface being clean and perfectly smooth. So they figure they can let tires grind silica into the surface day in and day out and not have massive shortfalls in expected energy output?
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
Here's how Fake News is born. the builders promised "It would ILLUMINATE 3000 to 5000 households. Of course illumination is only a small fraction of a household's electrical usage. Of course someone (Popular Mechanics?) didn't catch the deception, and a lie is born. No doubt this was intentional by the "builders" and their supporters.
A solar panel at best is rated at 1KW per meter squared. At best you may get 400-600 watts the rest lost to heat and reflection. You would need 1 million of these or 1 square kilometer to replace one power plant. That assumes of course the sun is always shining at peak summer output, and the panels never wear out or get dirty.
The Solar Road didn’t go as planned, so a Lunar Road might be an option.
Shows you can’t out-stupid a determined Progressive politician.
*ping*
There proved to be several problems with this goal. The first was that Normandy is not historically known as a sunny area. At the time, the region’s capital city of Caen only got 44 days of strong sunshine a year, and not much has changed since. Storms have wrecked havoc with the systems, blowing circuits. But even if the weather was in order, it appears the panels weren’t built to capture them efficiently.
You mean the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow?
Far from expected 790 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per day
In the end, the latter is far from having kept its energy promises. After producing the first year just over 50% of the expected 790 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per day, a total of 149,459 kWh over the year, the equipment generated 78,397 kWh in 2018 and 37,900 kWh since January , as indicated, in early July, the statement of the association for the promotion of photovoltaic BDPV, which lists the production of solar installations in France.
Financed by public funds of € 5 million and supported by Colas (Bouygues Group), the subsidiary Wattway aimed to provide the equivalent of the annual consumption of public lighting in a city. of 5,000 inhabitants.
The general director of services of the departmental council of the Orne made his accounts: “The revenue from the sale of electricity produced by the road should bring us 10 500 euros per year, details Gilles Morvan. In 2017, we received 4,550 euros. In 2018, 3,100 euros, and for the first quarter of 2019, we are at 1,450 euros.