The summary seems to be "we've got this awesome idea, and lots of money, now we're going to try to see if it will work."
The engineering consensus seems to be that it won't, or at best, will have extremely limited applications. Everybody would be far better off putting high-efficiency solar panels on rooftops than low-efficiency ones on the ground where they'll get dirty and broken.
Reading their literature, there seems to be a great big gap where any kind of decent engineering analysis would be.
While I can see the appeal of the idea, unicorns and hyperspace drives would also be pretty cool. I have my doubts.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1042mm/solar_roadways_...
The summary seems to be "we've got this awesome idea, and lots of money, now we're going to try to see if it will work."
The engineering consensus seems to be that it won't, or at best, will have extremely limited applications. Everybody would be far better off putting high-efficiency solar panels on rooftops than low-efficiency ones on the ground where they'll get dirty and broken.
Reading their literature, there seems to be a great big gap where any kind of decent engineering analysis would be.
While I can see the appeal of the idea, unicorns and hyperspace drives would also be pretty cool. I have my doubts.