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IFLScience has a blogvertisement for a company called Solar Roadways, which replaces the decades-old tarmac way of building roads which something far more useful. As well as incorporating a solar power collector, other features such as under-road heating to clear snow, LED lighting to light the way, trunking for stormwater and utilities, and the ability to find broken segments (potholes) instantly.
Obviously it will never work, but why not?
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(Score: 1) by el_oscuro on Saturday May 24 2014, @02:07AM
While I completely agree, sometimes there is a reason to do something as batshit insane as this. The same reason people climb mountains higher then where the human body can survive or jump out of perfectly good planes. Because it is there.
Someone might get a contract to build this somewhere, and will undoubtedly waste a lot of tax payers money. It will fail, but perhaps during the failure someone will learn something useful in building solar panels and/or roads.
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