spud100
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Re: China is building solar roadways
Hmmm...and when its a foggy day in Szechuan Town? There must be some switch over to nuclear or nat gas, for days of rain and snow and gloom of night.
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12/22/2017, 5:02 pm
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James Jaeger
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Re: China is building solar roadways
This is an outrageous idea!
As solar panels improve, I would think you would not even have to make the entire road solar, just every 10 feet or so there could be a solar panel.
Electric cars could also automatically charge as they traveled down certain roads, and drivers could be billed via a WIFI accounting system tied into the solar roads.
This could be a multi-trillion dollar business for many, many companies. It could also initiate the privatization of all highways.
Solar roads could also store sunlight and convert it to heat, just enough to keep them at optimum driving conditions -- i.e., no ice, no snow and possibly no water.
You could even have different lanes that you pay for: a lane that is totally ice-free, a lane that is totally snow-free and a lane that's always totally dry, rain-free. Again, as in charging, drivers would be automatically billed by a WIFI connection to the computerized road.
The next thing that really has to get done, before all cars go electric, is signal lights need to be computerized and timed. The billions of dollars that are wasted every year when millions of cars sit at DUMB stop lights waiting for a green light when no one is coming, should be on every energy-conservationist's conscience.
If only there were some way to create a SMART road and signal system that would funnel the gasoline savings, and the prevented accidents, into the actual funding of a new, high-tech, SMART highway system.
THAT would help Make America Great, no?
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12/25/2017, 5:23 pm
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greendocnowciv
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Re: China is building solar roadways
James,
Good ideas for a future road.
And most of us consider it likely that we will improve our "finger-and-voice" us-to-AI inputs, and "ear-and-eye" AI-to-us inputs to something more snazzy and zippy. Various Mark I's, II's, etc.
As that matures....
AI linked peeps could have their AI poppin' ideas at start up AI'S that link to a network of AI's linked to angel investors.
Lots more good ideas will get rollin' a lot faster than today.
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1/1/2018, 10:27 pm
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BlueLoaf
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Re: China is building solar roadways
Sorry, but no - I've read about this idea and while I initially loved it, it really doesn't make sense.
How about starting with covering parking lots, roofs, etc with traditional solar panels first, and then moving on to covering roads with solar panels, but not on the road surface, rather building structures above the road and covering those with solar panels.
This will not only allow the same charging possibilities but also protect the cars from bad weather, whilst being a lot cheaper than trying to develop a solar panel that is as durable as asphalt in terms of being driven on.
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1/5/2018, 1:35 am
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