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Originally Posted by rustyBob
the energy it would take to pull up the existing roadways and then manufacture those panels strong enough for a 80,000 pound semi truck to drive on those panels.....the cost would be out of reach, you would be talking many trillions of dollare not to mention the cost of digging up all those land fills...peeeyeeewww
I'm all for a soultion to all of this but at least be practical about it...
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Do they need to pull up the existing roadways to be able to position the panels? I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about that, but I've slept since then and at my age the memory isn't so great (they say the memory is the second thing to go
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Agreed the rigors of enduring the poundings by an 80,000# semi-rig would be a challenge, but IIRC they would sandwich the PV cells inside some sort of shock-absorbent medium between two thick panels of Lexan type material....I could see that this method would be adequate.
As for the cost, it would be recovered MANY times by the electricity generated, no?
Agreed, it would be a monumental undertaking, but the "impracticality" would be overshadowed by the benefits....imagine NO fossil fuels or nuclear energy used to generate ANY of the electricity our country needs
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The smell of digging up the landfills.....well, ya got me there (not to mention that the methane produced by landfills can be used as an alternative energy source, too)!
Cheers from Dugly
