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Title    Solar Roadway not Quite so Practical
Date    Sunday November 09 2014, @12:52AM
Author    LaminatorX
Topic   
from the hot-wheels dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/11/08/1732246

tonyPick writes:

Several sites are running a story on the solar roadway installation in the Netherlands, including phys.org and IFLScience.

However over at EEV Blog is a thorough critical review by Dave Jones which runs through the numbers and finds it doesn't add up as a practical proposal. There's references to Dave's original review of an earlier proposal, for some background on the calculations.

From the associated forum posting:

Dave shows how to go about doing ballpark engineering feasibility calculations for such a project, calculates the expected payback period, and SPOILER, shows why Solar Roadways will never be a viable technology. This time using real measured data from the Netherlands cycleway prototype, and real measured solar insolation data for the Netherlands

Links
  1. "tonyPick" - https://soylentnews.org/~tonyPick/
  2. "phys.org" - http://phys.org/news/2014-11-solaroad-world-solar-path-netherlands.html
  3. "IFLScience" - http://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-solar-cycle-path-installed-amsterdam
  4. "which runs through the numbers" - http://www.eevblog.com/2014/11/07/eevblog-681-more-solar-roadways-bullshit/
  5. "original review" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
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