Solar FREAKING Roadways!!

[Forgon]

Maybe the greatest idea to seriously release our dependence on fossil fuels I've ever seen!

WOW! They made over $300,000 in the past 36 hours!! YAY, fully funded!!



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I'm a believer!! And you should be too!

BTW if you are cynical and think: Have they thought of THIS!!

Please check this page out, they thought of everything!

FACTS AND QUESTIONS PAGE: http://solarroadways.com/faq.shtml#index

Spread the word! We need to make this happen, don't oil companies and the electricity monopolies destroy the first ever REAL possibilities to have a better energy independent future!

What do you think? Excited? You should be!

Indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways#home

Supported by a senator:



More videos with the inventor talking:

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"Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum."

What was that about the oil companies?

[Forgon]

"Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum."

What was that about the oil companies?

Did you watch the video, this is against Asphalt. These are not made that, roads today are. They are made of Glass.

[Orlong]

Did you watch the video, this is against Asphalt. These are not made that, roads today are. They are made of Glass.

Great so cars run over glass, the glass breaks and crumbles and pops tires. Sounds wonderful to me! What we have now works great and is inexpensive. You tree huggers need to go away instead of grasping for straws, inventing cockamamie ideas and raising costs for all of us in the name of the environment

[Frozenbeef]

Great so cars run over glass, the glass breaks and crumbles and pops tires. Sounds wonderful to me! What we have now works great and is inexpensive. You tree huggers need to go away

Not exactly tree hugging when they want a new source of power, it's not as if coal/ oil is unlimited...

[Forgon]

Great so cars run over glass, the glass breaks and crumbles and pops tires. Sounds wonderful to me! What we have now works great and is inexpensive. You tree huggers need to go away

Please watch the video.. This is not the "glass" you are thinking off, it's tempered glass that has passed ALL tests of the transportation department. THIS IS NOT A FAKE IDEA!

[Mayhem]

i uhm, so, what are the estimated numbers of leds and stuff needed to build one panel extrapolated on every road of the US? i mean there´s got to be plastic and therefor oil involved in the process of making

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Did you watch the video, this is against Asphalt. These are not made that, roads today are. They are made of Glass.

Did you miss the point? I think you did. Asphalt has petroleum in it, oil companies have petroleum, oil companies make money off of asphalt, oil companies won't want these otherwise really cool solar freaking roadways because they won't make any money off of them. Right?

[Kalis]

Whether this is viable comes down to cost - they can't provide cost data yet. Meh.

[Djuntas]

Plastic is oil. But I hear this idea before, pretty cool.

[Forgon]

Did you miss the point? I think you did. Asphalt has petroleum in it, oil companies have petroleum, oil companies make money off of asphalt, oil companies won't want these otherwise really cool solar freaking roadways because they won't make any money off of them. Right?

Yes, of course. But this is the greatest option for energy independence I've seen.. EVER!

[Kulanae]

It is certainly a very interesting idea. My question would be about how the solar panels are constructed. Normally a lot of rare earth minerals are required for the construction of residential and commercial panels. Would there be enough supply of said minerals to meet the tremendous demand an idea of this scope would require, and would it remain economically feasible?

[MerinPally]

Great so cars run over glass, the glass breaks and crumbles and pops tires. Sounds wonderful to me! What we have now works great and is inexpensive. You tree huggers need to go away instead of grasping for straws, inventing cockamamie ideas and raising costs for all of us in the name of the environment

It's not window glass... There are glasses out there which can easily hold the weight of cars. Cracking is not the problem, it's just how much stuff you'd need to make these solar roads. It's been thought of before, it's just hugely expensive an operation to undertake and takes colossal amounts of fossil fuels to make all the required plastics. And then there's maintenance...

[Forgon]

Plastic is oil. But I hear this idea before, pretty cool.

Not made out of plastic.. It is made out of RECYCLED Glass!

[Deleted]

Seems pretty cool but not likely in the close future.

[MerinPally]

Yes, of course. But this is the greatest option for energy independence I've seen.. EVER!

Think it's safe to say you've been caught on a hype train without having the full picture.

[Lightwysh]

yes but how much energy does it cost to produce and maintain this? I bet its more than the road will ever produce.

[Forgon]

It's not window glass... There are glasses out there which can easily hold the weight of cars. Cracking is not the problem, it's just how much stuff you'd need to make these solar roads. It's been thought of before, it's just hugely expensive an operation to undertake and takes colossal amounts of fossil fuels to make all the required plastics. And then there's maintenance...

Hasn't been thought of like this though, it has already gone through two phases of government progression. It's passed with flying colors. It would create SO much more jobs and better for the WORLD's economy than the expense it would take.

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[Mayhem]

Not made out of plastic.. It is made out of RECYCLED Glass!

yeah uhm, leds and the electronics inside the panels probably require a good amount of plastic

[Aurabolt]

I don't see this being possible for say, interstate highways but for a city the size of Boston, Providence or Little Rock it's possible.

It all comes down to cost.

In comparison, more and more people are putting Solar Panels on their homes. The electricity generated from Solar Panels on just one house provides enough electricity to power an entire city block for a month. I might be a bit off with my figure without the data to back it up but Solar Energy is a renewable and clean energy source that can be maintained indefinitely.