New super capacitor tech on the way

[Grant H.]

Once Solar Roadways gets past the testing trials phase and they begin mass production, you wont need charging stations because a simple wireless adapter installed in the car will charge it while it's motion.

http://www.solarroadways.com/

All light poles, stop lights, stop signs and skyline clutter will all come down. Snowplows will become obsolete as the panels will melt the snow off, plowing, sanding and salting roads will become a thing of the past, potholes and chain laws will become extinct.

The roads even illuminate when animals are crossing and alert drivers with an illuminated message on the road before they get to the animal.

traffic control and speed signs are illuminated w/ messages on the roads and at intersections.

Houses are powered by plugging into a panel. Cable tv and internet are powered through the panels.

Amazing things are coming!





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You have very high hopes for a very flawed idea/product that hasn't gone anywhere in nearly 10 years.

[cstone]

I saw a Tesla charging station in Limon a few weeks ago.

2221 6th St, Limon, CO 80828

[Irving]

I read an article about the charging stations and I thought more were being installed at some ridiculous rate like 100 a month, even though I've never seen one.

[MarkCO]

You have very high hopes for a very flawed idea/product that hasn't gone anywhere in nearly 10 years.

You are too kind Grant.

Even working tangentially and directly in the automotive and alternative fuels industries, I have lost most of the bets I have made. In 2015, I had to pay off a 20 year bet to a buddy that by 2015, half of the cars on the road in the US would be diesel/electric hybrids. We only have a small percentage of hybrids and a miniscule number of D/E hybrids even though, for at least the last 10 years, it has been the most economic system to deliver the US Consumer what we demand of transportation at a reasonable cost. In 1988, I drove a Concorde with a gas turbine engine that was getting into the 50 mpg combo range and did a standing 1/4 mile in 11 seconds. Open combustion was deemed "undesirable" but man did I want that car.

[Irving]

We'll convert to metric before we have solar roadways and get rid of overhead power lines.

[cstone]

With all this futuristic talk along with the focus on super or ultra capacitors, I've decided that I will hold out for the flux capacitor model.

To infinity and beyond!

[Grant H.]

You are too kind Grant.

Even working tangentially and directly in the automotive and alternative fuels industries, I have lost most of the bets I have made. In 2015, I had to pay off a 20 year bet to a buddy that by 2015, half of the cars on the road in the US would be diesel/electric hybrids. We only have a small percentage of hybrids and a miniscule number of D/E hybrids even though, for at least the last 10 years, it has been the most economic system to deliver the US Consumer what we demand of transportation at a reasonable cost. In 1988, I drove a Concorde with a gas turbine engine that was getting into the 50 mpg combo range and did a standing 1/4 mile in 11 seconds. Open combustion was deemed "undesirable" but man did I want that car.

LOL. I try.

The solar roads thing is just bad implementation of solar technology, period...

The single easiest thing to pick on, that most don't think about, is that roads are always dirty. The efficiency loss that occurs from dirty PV panels is noticeable, and then you consider that not only will it be dirty, but it's also covered by "hard-shade" for a significant portion of the day (you know, cars and trucks), and now all you are left with is a REALLY expensive, horribly inefficient, solar solution that makes roads unnecessarily more difficult/expensive to build and maintain...

[Grant H.]

If someone wants to read WAY MORE detail about solar losses due to hard/soft shade, here is a good link...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...64032116000745

It'd also be a good substitute for ambien.

[MarkCO]

The solar roofing materials are pretty interesting to read about. When you have folks spending 20K to 50K on new roofing systems, getting close to cost effective.

With my Father working at SERI/NREL for several years and designing off-grids energy conversion systems for large homes, I try to keep up on the technology. The house I helped my Dad build as a teenager had all electric heat with solar. Built the roof at a 55 degree angle with 21 panels. The electric heater almost never turned on and we heated a pool in the summer. When they sold it, the new owners did not understand it, tore out the panels and paid to get gas run to the house, plus gas furnaces to a tune of $40k. Their heating costs doubled.

[Gman]

We'll convert to metric before we have solar roadways and get rid of overhead power lines.

This will probably come after the coming ice age they taught us about in grade school right along with the coming conversion to metric.

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