Skull Pilot
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I thought you said it was freeChina Is Testing Roads Paved With Solar Panels
Great idea. Putting solar cells where they'll get run over, dirty, oily, that won't degrade their performance.
Free Power
Solar roads are also more expensive than asphalt. It costs about $120 a square meter, or about $11 a square foot, to resurface and repair an asphalt road each decade. By comparison, Pavenergy and Colas hope to be able to bring the cost of a solar road to $310 to $460 a square meter with mass production.
Free? LOL!
And when your paid for the energy the solar road produces?
It still won't be free.
It is for those that pay for the road.
They're hoping to bring the cost down to $310/square meter.
That's not free power.
The cost is paid by those that buy power.
If people pay for it it is not free