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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @01:06PM
and cuz (c) greens are hitler and (d) you are jesus...
If only you had left your crazy end riff out your comment would have been pretty decent.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @02:54PM
The end riff is the point. Why did this project get built? Who was in favor of it?
Solar roads get there uncritical press in the green media, and are supported by the green political parties, despite being obviously stupid. There are only two possible explanations: either these people cannot do math, or they don't care since it's not their money. Those possibilities are not mutually exclusive.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @04:17PM
There could be conspiracy theory explanation, that is big coal pushing those insanities to make solar power a laughingstock before solar panels get so cheap and light that they get printed/glued onto all new roof materials.