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Solar Roadways..NEVER shovel snow agai.... oh (Patreon)

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2018-01-02 23:09:24
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I really didnt appreciate how far north solar roadways was till I visited it last summer.  Its almost as far north in america as you can get while still being in america!  Its almost the worst place you can possibly imagine to test anything with solar panels.  Yet it still got almost $2mn of government funding, and another 2mn of indiegogo cash.  Not to mention it was probably the 'inspiration' for the Colas wattway, and the latest thing in China.  Anyway, this was the first winter SolarRoadways would actually be pitted against snow.  You will recall last year it broke almost immediately, never generated any power and wasnt repaired till spring.

You will be surprised that solar roadways claims that they would melt the snow may have been somewhat exaggerated! :-)

This video was demonetized within 24 hours of putting it up. Im stunned! (sarcasm)

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Solar roadways, NEVER shovel snow agai... oh

Solar roadways promised almost everything... they would stay up for you when you got home late at night, they would take out the trash and cry when you got split ends. However in the end, after about 2mn dollars of government money, and 2mn dollars from an indiegogo campaign, they delivered on basically nothing. Their installation current generates no energy because its covered in snow, but even if it wasnt it would be generating about 1 cent of electricity per day! Even when it was at its prime, in the middle of summer it generated about 1/10th the power it would have if those solar panels had been put in a normal rooftop installation. Even professionally done versions of this concept are simply non-starters, like the Colas wattway. The Chinese also recently announced they had built something similar. EEVBlogs did quite a nice breakdown of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpwx-8s1M38 You can support videos like this through patreon https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t

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Anonymous

Damn I wish it was easier to ask Thunderf00t a question!! SoI ask here because it has to do with "solar roads"... Would it be possible to create a "Piezoelectric" road that creates power from cars driving over it??? Possible in a spray with small quartz crystals that get squeezed when a car drives atop it... I know nothing of this "phenomenon" and hoped good ol' Thunderf00t could shed some light on it possibility.. In the mean time, I'm going to read up on it to see how it works and if it can generate anything useful. I wish Dr. Thunderf00t would read this and possibly discuss this with the world. Try to pass this along to him. Thanks!! :D

Nicekiwi

Why was it demonitized?

Alan Noble

I had a nightmare that my city wanted to put in Solar Roadways at the cost of the taxpayers and every single person in town wanted to do it and none of them had heard of Thunderfoot. Then the dream turned into a zombie survival horror where I was the only person with the antidote and had to "woke" them out of being zombies or whatever the equivalence in intelligence was.

Maury Kykelstein

I'm trying to raise money to develop a conceptual project called

Maury Kykelstein

Baller Freakin' Roadways - What Do You Mean They Aren't Already Freakin’ Paved With Freakin’ Gold!?!