Solar roads?

[nottyboi]

Well yeah come back 100 years and maybe solar-electric cars will be getting started, ha ha. I mean maybe in this weather people will really be using electric cars. Right now they are for going to the beach in nice weather.

You look back 40 years, we really haven't came that far. There was cars getting mid 30's mpg and now today we got a few 40 mpg cars. We been stuck for awhile. No breakthroughs have happen lately. Its still a small engine/light car for best mpg.

I would LOVE to get free power from the sun. I'm not looking forward to gassing up my hot rod car this spring. Afraid I'm going to have to change the gearing to slow the engine down to save fuel. $20 was going too fast last fall and now gas cost even more, yuk.

I will say I think the oil companies--and governments--are all for us using oil for the time being.

Efficiency has improved a HUGE amount in cars. But that efficiency has been converted into performance instead of fuel efficiency. That is because oil is too cheap. You are only JUST starting to see oil hit the pain threshold where efficiency gains are being partially converted into fuel economy instead of performance and size... Even the new Hyundai elantra gets better fuel economy AND more performance..

 

[Brill]

Ho got banned but someone with the same personality and making the same arguemets with the same tboy logic has appeared with the handle nottyboi.

nottyboi is NOT-tboy though. Get it?

tboy isn't banned.

 

[5hummer]

Imagine if it was applied to the Gardiner (or another stretch of road).
The technology in fused glass will be able to take the punishment.
And, cleaning maintenance can be applied at night (spray truck) after midnights.

But, I'll be dead by the time the technology is applied -- oh well!

 

[S.C. Joe]

Its Tboy's twin brother! lol Bans are sometimes lifted...I do recall Tboy saying some about maybe leaving? Last spring--summer? very busy, work, etc..was in a PM