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World's First Solar Panel Road Opens in Normandy Village

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @07:32AM   
from the checking-the-cost-benefit-numbers dept.

mrpg writes:

France has opened what it claims to be the world's first solar panel road in a Normandy village.

A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricity-generating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal.

It cost €5m (£4.2m) to construct and will be used by about 2,000 motorists a day during a two-year test period to establish if it can generate enough energy to power street lighting in the village of 3,400 residents.

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• Re:you don't lack space THAT much Re:you don't lack space THAT much (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday December 28 2016, @12:38PM

  by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @12:38PM (#446639) Journal

  What I'd like to see is someone setup a camera along a portion and take still shots every time a car passes by. Then along with that, setup a data logger on the output and record the output of the array. Then we stitch the stills into a time-lapse video along with the power output plot and time stamps.

  I'd like to see how fast dirt grinds the surface into an opaque mess while watching the power output drop. I don't understand how anyone thinks this is a good idea.

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• Re:you don't lack space THAT much Re:you don't lack space THAT much (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @02:44PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @02:44PM (#446698)

  RTFA

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  • Re:you don't lack space THAT much Re:you don't lack space THAT much (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday December 28 2016, @05:30PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @05:30PM (#446758) Journal

    IRTFA. Your point?

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    • Re:you don't lack space THAT much (Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday December 29 2016, @06:32AM

      by anubi (2828) on Thursday December 29 2016, @06:32AM (#446995) Journal

      I'd like to see how fast dirt grinds the surface into an opaque mess while watching the power output drop.

      I believe they have exactly the same curiosity about stuff like that as you do. And they are gonna find out. Empirically.

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      "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]

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