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Originally Posted by aturnis
Not sure I understand this mind set. How is placing solar on roofs better?
It's not. It's inefficient.
Using this system we simultaneously upgrade our deteriorating road network, our puny communications infrastructure, and most of all, or antiquated, not sure how the hell it still works, inefficient power grid.
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The problem is that the roads are not really upgraded. As you said in your previous post, it is still a concrete road beneath.
You are still going to get the same issues with the roads degrading over time due to the cyclic behavior of the loading patterns. Not to mention the settlement and heave potentials and degradation of the sub-base material.
The only upgrade that you have for the roadways (themselves, not counting everything else the solar panels brings) is that the wearing surface is changing.
What I am curious of is how much spray would come up from the tires in the rain? Asphalt and concrete (to a lesser extent) allows for the water to pass through it so there is not as much spray from tires during downpours and this allows for safer roads. Will the panels have some sort of seepage at certain intervals?