Comments on: Please Tread on Me: Solar Paneled Roadways? http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/products/please-tread-on-me-solar-paneled-roadways/ A blog about residential solar power, brought to you by CalFinder. Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Zee http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/products/please-tread-on-me-solar-paneled-roadways/comment-page-1/#comment-33571 Zee Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:10:29 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/products/please-tread-on-me-solar-paneled-roadways/#comment-33571 And everything started from the wall painted in black and used for heating... or black barrel used for water heating. Great idea with problems along the way... but not impossible. Roads, houses, cars... what is next? And everything started from the wall painted in black and used for heating… or black barrel used for water heating.

Great idea with problems along the way… but not impossible. Roads, houses, cars… what is next?

]]> By: Jacob Mintz http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/products/please-tread-on-me-solar-paneled-roadways/comment-page-1/#comment-20009 Jacob Mintz Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:57:41 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/products/please-tread-on-me-solar-paneled-roadways/#comment-20009 What is the problem this solution is trying to solve? The problem I believe is that large scale (utility scale) solar power plants needs a lot of available sunny large areas, in other words deserts and arid area, remote from the consumers. So, what you want is find real estate near to the consumer, most natural is to mount solar panels on the residential and commercial roofs, existing poles and as Building Integrated elements (walls and windows). The bottle necks are price and homeowners financing. There are a few potential show stoppers for the solar roads idea. Construction strength, solar panels are not efficient if the are mounted horizontally, maintenance and fault location is going to be a night mare. More than that free ways authorities are not terribly excited about zipping their precious freeways Regards, Jacob What is the problem this solution is trying to solve?
The problem I believe is that large scale (utility scale) solar power plants needs a lot of available sunny large areas, in other words deserts and arid area, remote from the consumers. So, what you want is find real estate near to the consumer, most natural is to mount solar panels on the residential and commercial roofs, existing poles and as Building Integrated elements (walls and windows). The bottle necks are price and homeowners financing.
There are a few potential show stoppers for the solar roads idea. Construction strength, solar panels are not efficient if the are mounted horizontally, maintenance and fault location is going to be a night mare. More than that free ways authorities are not terribly excited about zipping their precious freeways

Regards, Jacob

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