The World’s First Solar Panel Road- Not Such A Bright Idea After All!
September 25, 2018
By Paul Homewood
Readers might remember this headline from two years ago:
A solar panel road, claimed to be the world's first, has opened in France. The 1km (0.6-mile) stretch of road in the small Normandy village of Tourouvre-au-Perche is paved with 2,880 photovoltaic panels
At the time even the Mail pointed out some of the drawbacks, which should be obvious to even those with half a braincell.
Like:
The horrific cost
The even more horrific maintenance cost
The fact that solar panels won’t let power street lights at night (which is presumably when they are needed!)
The fact that the solar panels are flat, and therefore cannot efficiently harvest the sun
The loss of power when cars drive over them
Problems caused by frost and snow.
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