Solar Roadways almost funded

However, one has to wonder whether it is efficient enough to be worth doing. Are roads really the best place to collect sunlight at scale? Current solar farms are set up in specific places at tops of hills or what have you in order to maximize energy production, whereas streets have no such guarantees and require special resources and engineering to withstand the forces involved with supporting cars and trucks. Doesn't sound so ideal to me.

Even more concerning is that they never address basic feasibility questions like this, or say how much it costs or could cost if done at scale. All that their crowdfunding campaign seems to say is "Wouldn't it be cool if we could put solar panels in our roads?" without any analysis of whether or not we'd actually WANT to do that. (Hint: We probably don't because it's probably massively inefficient.)

It's obvious to me that this idea has very little potential and that this family is putting on a show to extract money from green, eco-friendly types who lack critical thinking skills.

Think about that before you give them another cent.