Are you just playing stupid tboy as if you don't know I live in Toronto or are you really stupid and pretending so as to continue your nottyboi is NOT TBOY ruse?
We all know it is you. Not sure about how it works with being banned and reconsituting yourself etc but you aren't fooling anyone.
But back to the main issue.
As to new technology and my acceptance of it.
I pursue it. For real, not by the newspaper and internet "research"/
Let me give you one clue of the business' I'm involved in. One is a joint venture I direct with an Institute of the
Fraunhofer Society in Germany. It is a relatively small project but still too complicated for you to understand how the business of science and research works. But for anyone who knows science, intellectual property and their commercialization knows Fraunhofer. And they know how the primary job of any scientists in universities is to GET MONEY! IN the US, the press gushing over such ridiculous proposals is one of the last resorts of quacks. These ideas are announced through press releases. Not peer reviewed papers. They are laughable. The difference between Fraunhofer and many North American university grant whores, Fraunhofer scientists actually need to make their tech useful.
So. Solar tech under roads?
Why? Are we out of open space to install solar panels?
The underlying photovoltaic technology is not ripe for anything except subsidized electrical rates or remote applications where bringing in lines is expensive. As in Ontario's FIT program. Improving photovoltaic technology is ONE issue. Separate from where the panels are located.
Even IF the tech was ripe, putting the panels under a ROAD is stupid when there is MORE empty space along the shoulder, ditch, median etc never mind the billions of acres of vacant land bordering most highways.
Flat panels along a road are stupid for many reasons.
1. The panels are FLAT! Efficiency of fixed panels are dramatically improved when the panels are tilted to the sun depending on the latitude of the location. Unless you are at the equator and land is SO scarce so as that the only empty space available is a road, it is STUPID.
2. Dirt. Even dust on the glass panels reduces power output. Running rubber tires over any surface will deposit rubber on that surface. BLACK rubber. And any texture on the glass for traction will further scatter light.
But you have to invoke tboy logic and say that unless we all blindly embrace any cockamamie proposal that we are neanderthals. To the contrary, thinking people with critical thinking skills can see through such "if we can save one child" pitches.
How would Hwy 11 work for this solar roads the past couple of months?
