Solar Roadways by Indegogo

[Huntress]

"From Earth Day (April 22nd) to May 31st, we are in the midst of an Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign to raise the funding needed to gear up for production of our Solar Road Panels. Our technology works. Now it's time to gear up for manufacturing."

"We want to make every effort to keep the project "green", following the adage for reduce, reuse and recyle. This will be true from manufacturing all the way through to installation and maintainance. "

Solar FREAKIN' Roadways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

Website for Solar Roadways
http://www.solarroadways.com/vision.shtml


I think this is an awesome idea even impletmented initially privately on your own property.
However a military application being plugged for this tech freaks me out some what.

(edited for additional link)

[LivioRazlo]

This. Needs. To. Happen. Sorry, I was drooling while watching this video. Solar freakin' roadways FTW!

[Sidney]

Here is their website. They have raised almost 900 THOUSAND dollars!!!!!! This is very cool.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways#home

[andrewgreen]

Nothing can stop a good idea and I believe this is an amazing idea.

[Shikasta]

Also worth watching is co-inventor Scott Brusaw's 2010 TEDx talk on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwHtWSFmV1Q

For some reason the video is in two parts. The above link is to part one.

[sirdipswitch]

Welcome... to your future... YES... I have an "Idea"!!!! No I won't tell you... yes I will keep you updated as it comes available!!!


chuckle chuckle chuckle...

[onawah]

UH OH. Maybe not such a good idea after all...:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/ene...e-of-a-project

[Shannow]

First you have to ask yourself where does the electricity come from to make tron-town glow all night...

If it's from "solar freakin' roadways", then you need 3-5 times the "solar freakin' roadways" to harvest enough energy during the day, find somewhere to store that energy, and then let it out overnight.

Look at any normal PV set-up, with efficiencies of 15-20%, and they are angled to the light...flat roads make some small percent of the already small percent only possible, and as latitude increases, they get worse.

Sorry, but it's a scam...

[Strat]

I wouldn't call this a scam just not a practical idea. The tech is all there it's just not gonna happen for like over 100 years. I don't think I'm exaggerating either, it just doesn't make sense. It would be more intelligent to just cut the bs and have cars that drive themselves to whatever location you'd like.

As an auto enthusiast I don't like it but I just assume it's just a matter of time till that's what people consider driving; hop in your car, say where you want to go and you go there. This eliminates wreckless/drunk driving issues. What you guys think?

[Shannow]

I'm thinking more on the grid as a whole...

Solar panels harvest energy and put them into the grid. They don't provide an inrush of power when a smelter starts, not keep your frequency at 50/60Hz, extra capacity to ride through a short, the power to start the pumps at the local waterworks...

Maybe "scam" was too emotive, but they are being marketed as 'though the grid feeds only TVs and laptops, and can magically provide Tron-town overnight