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MKJ wrote:Not sure if trolling

seremtan wrote:pretty sure not thinking straight

Eh, no, not trolling at all. I'm pretty bloody serious.
You know when a solar panel generates electricity? Yes, when the sun is up, during day time. And when is a parking lot filled up with cars? Oh, yeah, during day time. So there you are, wasting 90% of the solar panel surface because it doesn't catch any sunlight.

Cars in a parking lot spaced with 90% coverage of the surface would never be able to drive out of said parking lot.

My guess for a typical parking lot would have cars parked over 25% or less of it's surface area.

We don't need solar roadways. We can put solar panels in and on buildings and elsewhere.

I can see them possibly doing some private/commercial business for high end attractions so that's cool.

That video U4EA posted is quite long, but basically leaves no doubt about why this is a really, really poorly thought through idea.

yup

It's thoroughly damning.

solar is mostly bollocks

way to environmentally costly for so little gain

solar roads? come on this cant be serios.. howz magnets work lol etc

plained wrote:way to environmentally costly for so little gain

How is a clean and renewable energy source that only leaves a carbon footprint through production more environmentally costly than coal, gas, and nuclear?