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This is a proof of concept- not the final product by a long shot. Lessons are being learned here. There will be design improvements and better calculations next time.
Should the calculations look favorable, somebody will make the next (better) attempt. And so on.
We'd still be in the horse & buggy era if it was up to some folks.
Yep, "Solar Freakin' Roadways" the original promotion video has 23 million views now.
The calculations do not look favorable. It was always a silly idea and thoroughly debunked from the start by engineers. Road surfaces just aren't a good place to put solar panels.
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You don’t have to be a Trump supporter to wonder if it just might be more efficient to spend the money elsewhere. Protecting the environment is important to me and I do believe in global warming but this seems a waste of resources.
That's what people said about going to the Moon.
You learn a lot from attempting new things,and you can use those failures to build on for future successes, and use parts of the projects in different applications. So many inventions that we use in the modern world arose from the innovations for the NASA projects.
You learn a lot from attempting new things,and you can use those failures to build on for future successes, and use parts of the projects in different applications. So many inventions that we use in the modern world arose from the innovations for the NASA projects.
The fact is there are plenty of roofs to use and in case you haven’t noticed massive failures like this provide political opponents with something to ridicule environmentalists and solar proponents.
You would think they could have duplicated what these tiles would go through and realized it wouldn’t work before spending all that money to provide political fodder for their opponents.
I suspect many 'firsts' failed at some level.
So do we just never try again?
Interesting philosophy.
Exactly. Oops, Apollo 1 had a tragic fire that killed three astronauts. Let's scrap the whole Apollo program. Won't work, doomed to fail, better quit now.
Exactly. Oops, Apollo 1 had a tragic fire that killed three astronauts. Let's scrap the whole Apollo program. Won't work, doomed to fail, better quit now.
Hindenburg disaster kinda made people rethink hydrogen blimps.
You learn a lot from attempting new things,and you can use those failures to build on for future successes, and use parts of the projects in different applications. So many inventions that we use in the modern world arose from the innovations for the NASA projects.
Nah, the concept was, is and always will be a boondoggle... solar roads make the neck basket look like a stroke of genius!!!
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