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I live somewhere where it rains almost constantly for 9 months out of the year. Solar panels are really only effective for the other 3 months. It would be fantastic if this was a real thing.

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It would likely make more sense to put turbines on the downspouts of your roof gutters.

That doesn't make sense either. You need a vast land area to collect water for you before you can generate enough electricity from it to be worth the cost of your equipment.

I didn't say it made sense, just more sense than rain panels.

its not. this is solar roadways level shenanigans

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/05/04/construction-begins-o...

I saw the construction of this thing by chance the other day. Is it so obvious it's a "shenanigan" if they're still researching it?

there have been other tests of solar roadways - the costs are abysmal, the durability sucks, the efficiency is abysmal.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-first-solar-road-ha...

https://www.sciencealert.com/solar-roads-have-finally-been-t...

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/solar-roadways...

I think its someone pocketing grant money, or stupid bureaucrats spending tax money/grants for green headlines that has allowed those grifters to continue bullshitting people into building these poor decisions as "tests".

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