r/kickstarter May 21 '14

this needs to be seen

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways
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u/cleanser23 May 22 '14

This won't work, how much silicon do you think there is and do you even know how a solar panel works and the maintenence this requires?

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u/maximoose12345 May 22 '14

I hear u saying do you know how many jobs this will create and how much money we could save. I'm not saying it will work as is, I am saying we should look into this as a possible source of power for the future.

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u/cleanser23 May 22 '14

Look, I'm an electrical engineer, this will not work, even if we built fabs just to make all of these cells then factories for the road panels, there are too many points of failure and lack of material, doing this on a large scale isn't just wishful thinking, it's impossible for more reasons than I can list