SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS!!!!!!

[Omi]

I don't even want to think about the cost of maintaining roads built out of delicate little solar panels.

This seems like one of the most idealistic yet utterly unfeasible ideas I've ever seen, however much the euphoric, naïve proponents of SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS chirp on about it.

If my street is dug up in the next 20 years and replaced with solar panels, I'll happily eat my words, but until then it's just hype-driven idealism.

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[Haste]

"Produces three times more power than the United States currently uses" or whatever they said.

Protip:
By the time every road in the States was replaced by this stuff (which isn't going to happen), I'm fairly sure power needs would've more than tripled anyways.

These people have literally developed a solution to our energy problems and navigation issues. What have you done? Joked about their project because you fail to realize that cars aren't permanently parked in one spot for all of eternity.

Congratulations on getting hyped up by a video designed to hype people up. Now go and figure out just how much one of these hexagons would cost. Then figure out how many you'd need to replace, say, five percent of the road network in the States. Then let me know just how many trillions of dollars that's going to cost.

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[Govedo13]

The second thing is this:
http://www.thingsworsethannuclearpower.c...ition.html
http://www.thingsworsethannuclearpower.c...ution.html

The truth about all of the renewables is that at their current efficiency they are useless for any serious commercial production, they take a way too much agricultural land that is severely needed to produce food, their waste is as bad as the nuclear one.
No renewable would even exist anywhere without government co-funding.
Their RoI is just terrible and their main usage is to create debt,misery and unpayable bank loans.

The real energy solution is HE3 from the Moon in long term(30-50 years) and MSR (5-10 years) in short term.
The IV gen Nuclear Reactors would be able to use as fuel the used fuel of the older gens reactors so they would not use more fresh Uranium and would recycle the nuclear waste at the same time. The 1000-1200 years estimated to clear the waste would be shortened to 100-120 years.

Then when the scientiest figure out how to use nuclear fusion properly the HE 3 from the moon would solve all our energy demands forever. http://www.explainingthefuture.com/helium3.html

I have background as economical analyst in nuclear industry. The most funny and sad thing is that many big electricity companies create their wind and solar branches and run them with huge net loss only to safe face in front of the society.
The said huge net loss is compensated by the same society that pays 2-3 times overpriced electricity then the commercial users.
The whole system is plain idiotic because there is nothing renewable in the wind/solar power, both have relative short life and are constructed by hard to find and expensive materials.
The top of the cherry is that none can predict how much energy you can produce and if this energy is enough to satisfy the demands so the coal-plants need to be on stand-by all the time.
The said stand-by is called cold reserve and cost a fortune on top on the not so efficient renewables because coal plants does not have on-off switches they need to work on all the time on minimum power so they can kick in fast in hour or two otherwise you would stay in the dark.

The only real renewable energy is the water powered turbines, yet in EU they are not classified as such and receive no huge government co-funding from your taxes. Hydroelectricity is also practically without any life-span restrictions and it is self sufficient because it uses its own produced electricity to power the pumps for another loop in the turbines. It uses also no consumables like nuclear fuel or coal or any oil based non-renewable products.

Shorty said the renewable are neat trick to transfer money from the common people in certain rich people pockets without improving the environment or making your lives better, actually they do exactly the opposite- they ruin farm land,leave toxic wastes (solar), destroy birds and fish populations( wind). On top of that they cost you twice more then the common coal-plants and for times more then nuclear power.
Same story for the Kyoto protocol emissions trading, Bio-Diesel and similar stuff btw.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)

[Henry320]

I see an issue with theft... I can't imagine solar panels are cheap and if people in the UK go through the effort of ripping up copper wires in the train lines just to sell on a scrap for their morning coffee then imagine a road network at night... There would be no road in the morning ha! Of course there would be security put in such as a lock and key system but if average road workers have the ability to maintain these (ie take them out) then I'm sure crooks will find a way.

[Henry320]

Also how will these blocks do over hills? Try and make a lego curve without special pieces.. Now try and make individual special pieces with these solar panels. It's not a feasible project. I can see it being good for long straights of motorways but your average country road will be more of a headache than reward.

[Omicron]

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[NOVA-5]

I see an issue with theft... I can't imagine solar panels are cheap and if rail workers in the UK go through the effort of ripping up copper wires in the train lines just to sell on as scrap for their morning coffee then blame it on the people... There would be no road in the morning ha! Of course there would be security put in such as a lock and key system for the average road workers to have the ability to rip these off all over again then I'm sure the real crooks will find a way to blame the people for it and line
their own pockets as usual.

Fixed that for you.