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That's besides the fact that their efficiency is probably terrible.

last time I heard about this, this was from the French? Who was actually dumb enough to do this.

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yeah

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Whoever thought that the frequently broken thing that's covered when in use was a good thing to make out of solar panels should be executed. If you want to use the space so bad then build a cover made of solar panels over the roads instead.

going head first towards everything because of insecurity issues about china being viewed as backwards by every 1st world nation isnt something id be worried or jealous about

Did you read the article? It hardly makes sense.
>The unfortunate truth is that this road is in such a poor state, it isn't even worth repairing. Last May, a 100-meter stretch had deteriorated to such a state that it had to be demolished.
Well, who repairs what is demolished? Not even the French do that: it is called rebuilding, not repair.

>According to Le Monde's report, various components of the road don't fit properly
In English that is what is called shoddy workmanship.

>Even rotting leaves and thunderstorms appear to pose a risk in terms of damage to the surface of the road. What's more, the road is very noisy, which is why the traffic limit had to be lowered to 70 kmh.
I could not even make this up. Roads are now noisy. What is next? Water being wet?

Funny thing, there are NO pictures of the road problems in question, instead we see pictures of a solar road ... in the Netherlands.

Why not build roads that generate electricity from friction instead (i.e. whenever a vehicle drives on it)?

Ehh it's still been one of the best investments I've ever made. I feel like people that don't "get it" yet aren't doing the right things with VR if they ever try it, kinda like how a mom wouldn't use a gaming PC correctly.

Because that would in practice mean tapping energy from the car. It is inefficient as it is in converting chemical energy to movement, adding more drag to it is not beneficial.

A fresh asphalt road != concrete road != STEEL GRATE DECKING EEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

That thing looks like it has joints every couple feet.

Because no form of energy is free. You'd be basically robbing energy from the cars, and probably at a shitty rate to boot. Not to mention the engineering you'd have to do to manufacture an energy collection device that works on friction.

>VR is a fucking novelty outside of practical applications like healthcare and engineering.
Not really. It's without a doubt the "next platform" for games and media. I very much question your expertise on the state of the VR industry.

>the current state of the 21st century innovations

Why don't they just put the panels next to the road and angle them towards the sun?

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wouldn't that fuck up traction?
then even worse in the rain

t. chang

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>this must the be the most retarded
nope your post was more retarded.

>do something for the first time
>doesn't go entirely right
>OH NO WE MUST NEVER DO THIS AGAIN, IT'S ABSOLUTELY HOPELESS, NOTHING WILL EVER COME OF IT
t. people who would still live on trees with that attitude

why don't they just make solar clothes and put them on people

Not true. When someone says "multibillion dollar industry, that means the money from consumers, professionals, etc who plan to use the end product are spending that much money. You don't double count things by counting end sales, and sales for parts, and paid partners who helped with R&D, etc. That's what the dotcom industry did.

If they generated enough juice to power mag-lev cars, then you'd have somethin

There would be no way to connect that to the power grid without significant energy loss

Sun shade solar car parks are nice.

Except it fucking flopped on the market and is now relegated to a novelty niche.

>Well, who repairs what is demolished?
You repair until it is so bad that it has to be demolished...

>could not even make this up. Roads are now noisy. What is next? Water being wet?
A new asphalt road isn't noisy retard. The rougher the road, the noisier.

>Well my nitroglycerine cake didn't go entirely right
>"no shit retard"
>Hey I was just trying something new, it'll be different next time
Celsius room temperature IQ

>Except it fucking flopped
HTC has shipped more vives than Altair 8800s were ever sold

>dude these things are made of glass and expensive, what should we do with them?
>idk drive on them lol

You mean a roof?
See those open parking lots?
Put solar roofs over them.
Keeps my car cool. Babies won't die of heatstroke. Birds won't poop on my car.

>implying living in trees is bad

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Roads being noisy is a serious community concern and is nothing to scoff at. It's bad enough that land based shipping and rush hour traffic is so loud, it's awful living next to that.

This technology has multiple issues and is never going to work. Simply put, you do not put delicate hardware on the ground and drive thousands of vehicles over it per day.

This stuff has so many serious issues with its environment that it's just fucking stupid to try it. It will never be commercially viable and, as said up above, if you somehow NEEDED to use every square foot of space in a given area then just put the solar panels ABOVE the road.

try inviting hundred people to party to your shitty hut.

>implying 100 people wouldn't love being in a great hall with a warm hearth in the middle
Git gud, urbanite scrub.

>not just putting the solar panels on a roof OVER the road
>keeps road cleaner
>still harvests solar energy

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>not just putting the solar panels on the sun
>maximum energy yield
>no downsides

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Don't solar panels have an EROI of 4? Why do people fall for these memes?

wikipedia cites between 8 and 35, while wind is 20 to 50

why not make a fucking solar plant instead and not have to worry about kms of area to service?

that hut doesn't have "great hall" hippie scum

I like both of those. The top looks like an RPG village and the bottom looks like a level from some James Bond shooter game. Which one I would prefer to live in would definitely depend on the local insect population. Cooler places like Europe it would be great to have a nice cozy naturalistic home but where I live it would be full of all sorts of awful spineless pests.

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based retards

cringe

At generation, yes, but what about when storage and transportation of energy is taken in to account?

just fund Aus to solar-plate Uluru for infinite energy

i got a rift s and played h3vr for a bit, tried out beat saber, subnautica vr, vrchat in actual vr. haven't touched it since

He's right.

Yeah okay. Meanwhile the Ps4 has shipped 100M units, but only sold 5.9M headsets. (which is by far the best selling headset.) there's hundreds of millions more pcs being sold for gaming in the same time frame.

If you're using a panel from the 90s, sure. You should be expecting around 12 with a modern panel (which costs less than the old ones, of course).

Also, the 12 is an average. It means that, without knowing anything about you whatsoever, I can guess the panel will give an EROI of 12. If I knew you lived in Arizona, I'd tell you it has a much better EROI. If I knew you lived in Britain, it'd be much worse than 12. This means even if it was an EROI of 4, there'd still be places solar would be worth it.

Capacitance seems like an overstated issue. If you have the battery power to store a couple days of consumption then you've met any reasonable requirements. No one in their right mind would want 100% solar power with no backup system.

All other forms of power generation besides wind and solar are relying on limited resources, all of which produce unwanted byproducts, and in fact all but nuclear were made from solar energy in the first place. Just cut out the middleman and make solar itself the primary resource.

Why do retards want to put these on roads when there is still a ton of uninhabited land basically everywhere?

Because roads are useless outside of transportation and it'd be nice if they did something else. This would also mean that the areas that consume the most electricity, none of which have nearby open land, would suddenly have real estate that can be converted to energy production.

Of course roads don't fucking work that way and the idea is still stupid.

I wonder how many roofs they could have covered in solar with the money blown on all these solar road projects.

new markets don't emerge overnight

It will be neither imo
I think flat gaming will still occupy most of the market and that VR gaming will be the close second.
Maybe with arcade revival? And after more popular in homes when it will be less bulky and inconvenient?
VR gaming is already very fun by the way, but yeah it's still niche and in it's infancy.
As other people here said, VR boom is not a one day process.
Obviously people were enthusiastic at first because such a dream tech was finally usable, and it obviously came with its delusions because such cutting edge tech will not be perfect in such a small amount of time.

>This would also mean that the areas that consume the most electricity, none of which have nearby open land, would suddenly have real estate that can be converted to energy production.
You mean cities? Those places notorious for their snarling traffic covering the roads that only lets up when the sun is down?

>cringing because your quoted post is so bad
yea, me too

Cities only have major traffic during rush hours, which is why it's called rush hour.

Your average city at 1pm has a fraction of the traffic it does at peak hours.

Local councils will deliberately blow cash towards the end of the fiscal year, else their budgets will be reduced next year. Solar freaking roadways probably got approved as part of something similar, council bureaucracy rather than visble engineering.

Just put solar panels along the roads and put kinetic panels on the roads to harvest car energy you absolute fucking mongoloids jesus christ

pajeet pls

The bottom one has AC and so can be whatever coolness you like.

How about instead of trying to extract 0.00000000001% of the sun's energy they invest it into shit like uhhhh nuclear fission or nuclear power which generates 10x the amount of energy even if the entire world had faggot panels

Yeah, let's put a fragile fucking piece of electronics right under the fucking 18-wheelers. But the way, did you know that asphalt is nearly 100% recyclable? This shit isn't.

And then just herring rocket the nuclear waste into the sun?

Just dump it into China, and with fusion there's no waste at all.

>no links to articles describing how bad they fucked up
Faggots. I love reading about horrible financial disasters. Like Uber.

Eventually, until that's feasible we can just put it in a hole and not let people go there and drink it. Infinitely better than other sources of power.

Are you retarded? Serious question. There are lots of people with down's syndrome, and most of them use the internet, so you can never know

Even something like solar panel sewers would've been a better idea

Let's not even talk about the fact that they decided to implement this technology that require a high and steady amount of sunlight, in one of the region of France that is the most cloudy and rainy.

i actually have an idea

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i'm absolutely gobsmacked

When will libtards learn that fusion is the only solution to our energy problems?

I think you might be onto something

There were plans to use the energy created by the friction and weight of cars passing over the pavement to generate electricity. This seems even more crazy.

literally nobody would take top over bottom, not even you who posted the picture, so shut the fuck up

tinfoiltards win again

Wow, I can't believe they actually tried that shit. The idea was so amazingly retarded that I thought it would never get any funding.

And then they realize there isn't internet or mobile data up there to upload their shitty instagram pics of their hippie house and prefer the bottom one since there's no point to the top one if you can't use it for meme social status points

link because OP is a faggot
futurism.com/the-byte/worlds-first-solar-road-disaster

>In 2016 France turned a one-kilometer stretch of roadway into the world’s first solar road. And three years later, the trial project has turned out to be an absolute disaster, French newspaper Le Monde reports.

>The photovoltaic panels that made up the 2,800 square meter (just over 30,000 square feet) of road surface have deteriorated beyond recognition, according to the paper. The panels have reportedly started peeling off the road and splintering.

>But the idea of having roadways generate solar power is far from dead, according to Business Insider. In the Netherlands, a solar bike lane has fared much better, exceeding the expected energy production. A solar panel road is also being tested near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

>American company Solar Roadways is hoping to turn highways smart using solar panels, sensors and LED lights for traffic warning systems. While they’re expensive, they could generate enough power to heat up enough to at least clear the road of ice and snow.

also related businessinsider.com/worlds-first-solar-road-turned-out-colossal-failure-2019-8

>solar bike lanes
bueno

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>Birds won't poop on my car.
But I still will

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How the fuck do you manage to high side a bicycle like that?

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FUCK YOU, YOU MADE ME THROW MY DRINK FROM MY NOSE! AAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Here's the aspect of this project that people keep missing; these aren't intended as just bare solar panels, but something that can communicate traffic signals. The solar aspect of it simply offsets the cost of providing that over a large stretch of land. These would make much sense in a frequently used parking lot than an actual highway.

ThunderF00t is an annoying retard.
I used to watch his videos but after a short break from them it was too hard to unsee what they really are.
He will kick this solar roadways thing while its down until the day he dies, he is even still bullying creationists in 2013+6

He is peak "le science" idiot, probably to try to take some credit as he is a science boy himself.
Going on about science as anything other than the title of a way of thinking that most people employ to solve any problem is stupid and shouldn't be done.

And that video about the air simulation is like some psychosis tier ramblings from this old man.

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Solar panels in general are pretty garbage. The resources it takes to make them are limited and way too expensive while being even more harmful for the environment compared to nuclear reactors, they don't produce that much power, they're only practical in fucking deserts, and they deteriorate over time and cannot be recycled. I only see lefty socialist retards on Twitter begging to have these things mass produced for every home and road because they think nuclear energy is bad because Chernobyl.

Why don't they make clothes that recharge batteries from the body heat people emit?

>la femme
Go ahead and guess.

Jesus christ

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Science is a method, nothing more nothing less.