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France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org)
An anonymous reader writes: France is planning on a project to build 1000 kilometers of road with specially designed solar panels. This project will supply 5 million people in France with electricity if it is successful. Though many solar experts are skeptical of this project, the French government has given the go-ahead to this venture.
According to France's minister of ecology and energy, Ségolène Royal, the tender for this project is already issued under the "Positive Energy" initiative and the test for the solar panels will begin by this spring.The photo voltaic solar panels called "Wattway" which will be used in the project are jointly developed by the French infrastructure firm "Colas" and the National Institute for Solar Energy. The specialty of "Wattway" is that its very sturdy and can let heavy trucks pass over it, also offering a good grip to avoid an accident. Interestingly, this project will not remove road surfaces but instead, the solar panels will be glued to the existing pavement.
It's an employment project, now you can pay people to wash the road every few days.
The duty cycle on rooftops is a lot better, plus there are no trucks driving over them there.
Trucks are constantly driving over my roof, you insensitive clod. I'm one of the last surviving trolls, and live under a (now solar paved) bridge.
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Yup, that was part of the joke. I'm a funny troll. It is an evolutionary adaption, like moving to Twitter.
If it acquires resources on instantiation like a duck, then its a shared_ptr<Duck>
Why would you want to spoil a perfectly good Slashdot comment anti-renewable energy freakout by introducing facts?
People here would rather talk about practical technology like a manned mission to Phobos. Solar energy is just a fantasy that can't possibly ever work.
You are welcome on my lawn.