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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @02:44PM

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

    RTFA

  • (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?

    • (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]