China Is Testing Roads Paved with Solar Panels

Re:China Is Testing Roads Paved with Solar Panels by RustySpottedCat on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:22AM (#17291609)

Wasn't there an indiegogo called Solar Roadways exactly for these types of roads? Didn't they fail after a couple of weeks of traffic?

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Re:China Is Testing Roads Paved with Solar Panels by mikejb on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:27AM (#17291855)

IIRC, they were never deployed to roads. Instead, they were deployed in a pedestrian zone (30 panels or so). It didn't go well, issues included loose panels, failing panels, and a fire in the electronics cabinet.

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Re:China Is Testing Roads Paved with Solar Panels by ryanmercer on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:31AM (#17302842)

They are still around, still haven't done anything remotely impressive. These things are idiotic, I say that as someone that backed them way back when. To even remotely be worthwhile you'd need to improve the efficiency percentage several tens of percent.

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