Hi, yes, I've got that Solar Roadways grin again. You thought 2020 wasn't gonna deliver another Solar Roadways video? You were wrong. You remember back in December 2017 and way before that when I finally busted the uh, coalesce uh, what way French Solar Roads. They did the world's biggest solar roadway installation and it epically failed.

Absolute Epic. First Solar Roadway in France turned out to be a total disaster. Wow, who could have predicted that? And Francis Solar Road is a complete failure. Bugger off.

No, I don't want notifications and a photo show World's first Solar Road that's turned out to be a colossal fire because it's falling apart and doesn't generate enough energy. Wow, Who could have told you that? Three years later, the French Solar Road is a total flop. The world's first solar Road has officially crumbled into a total failure. France's solar road dream may be over after test fails.

So you would have thought that we've heard the end of that and like we were just done and dusted with Solar Roadways videos and you would think that coal ass what way. One of the world's biggest road construction firms. If anyone had a snowball's chance in hell of making solar roadways works, it was them. And it was a complete and epic failure.

As anyone could predict on the back of an envelope, in my case, it was the uh front of a whiteboard. I predicted that uh, Solar Railways would be and others predicted Solar Railways would be a total failure. Those who weren't invested in the idea the dream that was Solar Roadways. Um, it was clear to everyone that it was going to be a total and epic failure.

And when I analyzed the results here, I'll link this video in. If you haven't seen it, it's absolutely epic. Gives right down. Here is the summary: The one-third the power output for nine times the cost.

and that's being generous. And that's not taking into account the fact that it just crumbled and fell apart because you're driving on solar panels. Oh, so you would think that coalesce. what way would just give up on this, But not, they're still flogging it.

They can't flog it to the French anymore because the French minister for silly walks. Where is she? Uh, she's gone, isn't she? Um, and yeah, I like that. No, nobody in France would tolerate this solar roadways rubbish anymore. But they found a new sucker.

The Yanks. Here we go in America. the Us has its first solar roadway, Peachtree Corners, which is a place, um, home to the country's first road surface solar panels. Wow! Petrie Corners reveal solar roadway system.

Peachtree Corners first to install surface solar panels in City Street. Georgia gets first solar roadways in the Us because of course, Solar freaking wrote roadways. Our good friends, the brewshaws. they couldn't deliver.

They still got their flashy Christmas lights which I believe are still going. Maybe we should do actually check out to see if the webcam is still there. Anyway, Peachtree Corners is the first U.s city to install solar panel roadway system. Peachtree Corner Smart City in the array of the ray install Us's first solar road, solar surface, solar panel lawn, autonomous vehicle lane.

So it's all to do. We're going to power electric cars within. That's the smart thing to do. No workers.

Um. Solar roadway panels hits Peachtree Corner. Oh goodness. Coalesce Wattway.

The French Road Giant has sold this turkey of an idea to these suckers in Georgia in the Us. and they've installed it. Let's take a look at it. I love the reporting here.

In 2016, Colas announced plans to pave 621 miles of French Roads with What Way solar panels. Although it's unclear how much progress have been made to date. Um, yeah, it was a total and epic failure. I think, um, just yeah.

two seconds of googling would have brought that up, that it was a total fire. Uh, Stephen Edelston Peachtree Corners, a suburb of land, installed solar panels in a section of its Technology Parkway, which officials said also serves as a testing lane for self-driving cars. The Gwinnett Daily Post writes the City of Peachtree Corners recently earned the distinction of being the first municipality in the country to install to, infamously, uh, install the distinction: The infamous distinction of installing being dumb enough to install a failed project. a previously failed project.

I mean, who authorized the money for this thing? Just looking at all the publicity of how this epically failed in France? Yeah, this is a great way to spend money. Let's actually yeah, let's put money into this thing which just epically failed here. But a little work here, no worries. Oh, earlier this month the City unveiled its Solar Railway system which is said produces energy for solar charged Ev charging at City Hall.

Well, we might run some numbers on Ev charging, shall we? The Sun-driven thoroughfare is located in a section of Technology Parkway's Autonomous Vehicle Test Lane and is expected to produce more than 1300 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, which will be provided to a level 2 Ev charger at City Hall. Well, thank you for providing a number thirteen hundred kilowatt hours of electricity. We're not just going to have laughs here, we're gonna just do some comparisons. It just so happens that I have a solar array on my roof at home and we actually have the data.

So let's look at how much energy is produced from my solar panels, which is a nominal three kilowatt array over the last year. We can do that. So 17th of December 2019 to 2020. this is the output of my solar panel system.

Over the last year, it has produced a 3.2 megawatt hours. That's 200. Uh, kilowatt hours. For those playing along at home.

3200 this thing is going to produce. Oh, here's another article 1300, right? So already this is producing this big array here, let's see if we can get some other photos of it. installation using their own data, right? provided By presumably by coalesce What way. Because they have all the data which I've gone through and actually measured and compared the actual data There it is that they actually got over a year of this thing are being in use and then I compared it to a rooftop array nearby.

And yeah, it's just it's not even. It doesn't even compare. How many panels have they got? Not many, but geez, this doesn't seem much bigger than my home. 10 11.

It's at least 11 in that photo. Mine is a 12 panel system using old, uh, 250 watt panels. You can get like 380 watts nowadays. So basically they've installed a similar number of panels that I've installed at home, but they're going to get less than half less than half of the output of my, uh, sure, the solar installation is going to vary.

I'm here in Sydney, which you know, but look in the middle of winter, look how it drops down like this. But three point, thirty two hundred because it's on my rooftop and it's angled and it keeps really relatively clean because cars and crap are driving on it and just grinding these things away. And they have a, like, a, you know, a low iron glass on it, so it lets the solar insulation come through. That's insulation, not ensuelation insulation.

Come through to the panels at the most efficient way possible. But when you've got these silly little um, solar roadways which have to have you know, a big rough surface on it, uh, it's just. oh. it's just why.

drive on solar panels and look, look where it is. The Curiosity Lab. Well, um, I sparked my curiosity about why you're putting solar panels flat on the road like this. Where you can drive over and there's these big shadows coming across late in the afternoon.

Look at this. You can see that in other photos as well. When look at these huge rooftops there, How many panels have you got on top of these roof tops? I'm betting none. Look at the surface area.

You could have put panels that cost. I've done the numbers that produce three times more energy for, uh, nine times less cost. Oh, but no. You had to be innovative.

And you had to install them in the freaking road. Why it failed? Look, Look, As anyone can predict, any engineer or any, you don't even have to be an engineer to project to run the numbers of this sort of stuff on the back of an envelope. Really. So who are Curiosity Lab? Well, apparently this seems to be like a government or you know, local council, uh, sponsored thing.

The City of Peachtree Corners. They're like technology. We provide both startups and established companies with the resources and infrastructure to manage. build next-generation internet, things grown, smart city and mobility technologies and stuff like that.

So this is all government. This is government funding, real world environments. Nothing is predictable except solar except the fire of solar roadways. Real people live and work here.

When you need to graduate from a closed environment, set your technology free to learn in the world. Bring it here, test, demo, and deploy your ecosystem at Space to innovate. So we've got a 25 000 square foot innovation Center, So that's 25 000 square feet of roof space. They could have put solar panels like regular, cheap, uh, solar panels on that would have lasted 20 years.

Instead, they had to invest in this boondoggle. Unbelievable. Anyway, it's got an Av test track. It's got 5g wireless environments, oh no dedicated short range comms and smart traffic lights and whatever.

And apparently. yeah, here's their Um thing about the nation's first smart city. Power by real world infrastructure, next generation, blah blah blah. The Ray.

Um, is the The Ray is a non-profit living laboratory. It's like an 18-mile stretch of interstate. So again, that's another government thing. Um, the new system it generates.

There it is 1300 kilowatt hours annually. half of my home rooftop system. Imagine what they could have done with the 21 000 square feet of roof space. Unbelievable.

But it's got a 21 performance increase. My god, this is your tax dollars at work. If you're in Georgia, let's see if we can find this on Google maps. Peachtree Corner Technology Parkway.

Here we go. But obviously. look, they've got autonomous driving. Uh, things with these gigantic arrows? They're driving on the wrong side of the road.

We should be driving on the left here. Um, I I don't understand. Let's see if we can find the location. shall we? of? Uh, where this sucker is okay, Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners? It's in here somewhere.

So it's either that, no, it's probably this driveway here. I suspect is, is that the building there? Yeah, where's that sign? I'm not the sign out the front. I'm not sure. Is it this.

But anyway, look at all the roofs around here, right? This is the whole point. Don't talk to me about solar roadways until you have put solar panels covering every single roof like this. Why? It's cheap and the ridiculous plummeting cost of solar panels is, just. uh, commercial solar panels that go on rooftops and farms and things like that.

It's insane. I've gone through the numbers even. You know, Three, four, Five years ago, the numbers were ridiculously now and low. Now they're even lower and they're super reliable.

They'll last like a 20-year manufacturer guarantees on this thing for producing like, you know, 80-90 outputs. Still, after 20 years, they're not going to be driven on. They keep relatively sell. You don't have to do that much cleaning on them if any.

Um, I've basically never. I cleaned my panels once the other, uh, month. Just I did a video on that just to see. Um, it made no difference at all.

Um, and they're super reliable and they're right at the point where you need the power, all the power infrastructures in place. You don't have to rip up the roads, you just put them on the rooftops. You can install these things in a day or two, and they wire into the existing infrastructure. But to dig up a bloody road like this look is that a little micro inverter for each one? You're going to stick a little potted micro inverter inside the hot road that heats up.

Look at the shadows coming across late in the afternoon. You wouldn't get that if you angled them on top of the buildings. the trees wouldn't interfe. You wouldn't get the grime and crap.

You'd get much higher efficiency because of the, uh, lack of this stupid rough surface that it's just going to get all the tire grit and grime and all sorts of other crap. And you're going to get them more efficient because they're angled. It's just. this is why I've done like not just done the calculations.

I've analyzed the actual production data from these exact coalesce what way panels. But oh, hold on Dave. Ah, hang on. The Huawei Solar panel is manufactured by French Transportation Innovator Innovator Coalesce Group in partnership with the French National Solar Energy Institute.

where engineered to be more durable and efficient resulting in a 21 performance increase over previously deployed panels. Wow, I've analyzed the data one-third the capacity for nine times the cost and that's generous, right? That's just like no other things considered about longevity and and installation away. and no installation cost was included. but longevity and all sorts of other uh stuff and degradation due to all the grime and crap in there and destruction and ma and replacement and all that sort of stuff doesn't include any of that.

but they've increased at 21 whoopty so it might go from one third the capacity for nine times the cost to oh, if I'm being absolutely generous again, like I like half the capacity for nine times the costs. Why Why would anyone spend the money on this? This is just like, seriously, whoever spent the money on this should be sacked. Oh God no, they couldn't just do a simple Google search and bring up every single article. This is just like of all the fires of this.

but no, they want to do it and they want to produce energy for Evs. Here you go. Here's my panel and here's my system here. I've got uh, 12 panels.

just you know, 250 watt commercial things have been going for seven years, so it's basically the same size array as they've got there and it produces more than double the output power, More than double 3200 kilowatt hours. They're one using their own numbers are is only going to generate 1300 kilowatt hours a bit. It doesn't even generate that, and it's certainly not going to do it for years. And years.

and years. So anyway, how many times can you recharge a typical Ev using 1300 kilowatt hours? Well, we can run the numbers on that. Let's get our confuser out here: 1300 kilowatt hours? A battery pack in my Ioniq Electric Ev That I've got. it's about 38 kilowatt hours.

So let's divide that by 1300, divided by 38. I can recharge my Ev 34 times in a year. Brilliant. And if you divide that into 365 days a year, you can recharge your Ev every 10 days.

And apparently they will have storage on this. So yeah, you can just sit there twiddling your thumbs waiting for this piss ant little solar roadway system to generate enough power to charge one Ev up. Um, one. Typically, that's not even a big you know, battery pack Ev every 10 days.

So how much did this, uh, boondoggle cost to charge an Ev once? Barely every 10 days? I mean, come on, this is just. but. Look, it's got a nice sign and it looks innovative. And I'm sure like all the local people you know, all the local politicians got out there and they did a ceremony, you know, tape cutting ceremony and all sorts of.

and they're going to rave about how innovative the, uh, Curiosity Lab is and all this sort of stuff. But no, you know, like one, two, three, like they've got, like that's the size of my solar array at home? Like come on. and because I know you want to know how much uh they could have produced if they put the panels on top of this roof here. Well, I've done some my calculations here assuming it's this building right here.

They've got a couple of them, but let's assume that they can put the panels down this side here and this side over here. Like this, I calculate approximately. um, eight thousand square foot of we're working our Yankee units here because we're in Yankee land. 8 000 square foot of panels and it roughly uh, 20 watts per square foot nominal output.

We're talking about a 160 kilowatt system. so they could have installed a 160 kilowatt system instead of what the one killer, one, one kilowatt like. I get like couple orders of magnitude bigger system they could have installed on here. and how much would that cost? I'm glad you asked.

I have the numbers for that too. This is for the Uh Nrel government. Uh report. I found a 2018 one.

This is for our commercial solar Pv systems. This is installed cost. You see how it dropped from like 2010. It's about 1.83 Yankee bucks per Uh kilowatt of installed system.

So that's roughly it'll cost about for an A for 160 kilowatt system here, and it cost roughly like 290 odd thousand dollars to install that system. Which sounds like a lot, but it's a hundred and kill 160 kilowatt system. It's enormous. That's what you could have put on the roof, so I'm not sure how much this, uh, boondoggle will cost.

Maybe we can find that, But geez, the money's better spent just whacking them on the rooftop. So can we just please stop all this solar roadways nonsense? It is never, ever going to work. But for those who say oh, we have to spend the money innovating on new technologies like this and they'll get better in the future. No, they won't.

This is not new technology innovation. It has taken existing solar panel technology and it is putting it in the worst possible environment with the worst efficiency possible. It is just fundamentally stupid idea from the get-go until you have covered every single one of these rooftops surrounding. Curiosity Lab.

Look, this is the Curiosity Lab headquarters, right? Is that them there? Whatever. Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners? I don't know. Whatever building it is, they've got no solar panels on the roof. Why don't you put the solar panels on the roof and you innovate existing solar panel technology.

This roof, all this roof space, all this rear space people want to crap on about solar roadways, putting them on the roads. It's just fundamentally stupid. Stop it. You are not innovating, even if you persisted with this boondoggle of an idea.

impractical idea. So if current solar technology is getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper solar roadways, Yeah, it might get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. But it's still going to have this massive gap between the uh, you know, the bang per buck functionality for solar roadways. So until every single rooftop is covered, right, you could have just put these on a damn pole on the side.

Look, they've got a pole here, right? And why not whack some solar panels on top of that, right? You'd be better off have a nice cupboard. uh, you know, a bikeway or something pathway or something like that. It can protect people, shade people at the same time, as well as having those solar panels last for 20 years and cost like one-tenth the cost of this boondoggle. But yeah, it just generates lots of hype.

Everyone likes to crap on about it, but uh, you'll see them getting owned. In the comments, this idea to put them on the road surfaces is idiotic. Any government official who approves spending tax money on such a project should be prosecuted. I just sacked a lot of them.

These ideas are scams. They are known to be scammed. Gcr should cover this technology with a critical eye to showcase why it is a green scam. Yeah, like green car reports, right? Come on is worthy coverage only to expose it.

scamming claims and bad investment. Solar Roadways have generated more media bus than electricity. Exactly as we become more. Oh, did they say that in the article? I should read the articles.

There's so many of them as we become more receptive to green technology green scam shots as this are also taking the opportunity to scam the public. Even though any engineer um who wasn't invested in the dream of this of solar roadways could easily tell you this was going to be a guarantee that this was going to be an epic failure. In Europe, China, even the Usa solar roads have been an utter technical economical environmental fire. There are many informative videos on Youtube thank you very much, uh, debunking and explaining why it doesn't work yet Myself and Thunderfoot and there's been a couple of others, but we're We're the two main ones who have, uh, spoken up about uh oh, but don't know.

Solar Road in the Netherlands, Um has done like many videos and apparently um, like they're going to attempt it there again. We can't maintain the asphalt ones that last decades. This can't even be close to cost effective on several levels. That is partly because of how the Usa does road contracts in Europe.

The company posts a bond and if they get the road does not need to be fixed in a set amount of time. In the Usa, the company gets paid to fix the road again and again and again and again. It isn't. It is a scam.

Please stop posting this insane concept. Even a pedestrian walkway. It's stupid. Just spend the money on conventional rooftop systems and get 20 more times electricity per dollar spent.

Abso freaking lutely exactly what the demonstrable measured data shows. We all know this from five years ago. It's another green scam call as what way. No, it was an epic failure in there and they're selling this anyway.

Um, that they're just trying to keep flogging this dead horse that they know is an epic failure and people are just dumb enough to believe it because they want to be seen as innovative. Peachtree Corner Solar installation will produce more than 300 kilowatt hours annually. This reads like a bad joke. Yep, that is less than two months of electricity usage for average homes in Georgia.

My 3.3 kilowatt solar panel on my roof will generate. There you go. Yeah, five megawatt hours? Yeah, that's what I'm seeing with my three kilowatt system. as you saw.

And and like I do get a bit of shading in the afternoon which shuts it off. by the way. Um, update. I will hopefully be shortly be getting a new upgraded system to like greater than six kilowatts with micro inverters, so stay tuned for that all solar road uh, jokes and green scams.

This is a stupid gimmick. Yeah, it's it's just a gimmick. There is plenty of space on rooftops and canopies to put solar panels that don't have the extra insulation, durability, and maintenance costs. This idea won't work on a normal road.

There are heavy vehicles going at high speed. However, a lot of posts so especially parking places and sidewalks would support this. The first person who actually kind of sort of supports this is still not. This is going to work for a like a an actual road, cover the parking lot instead.

it's cheaper. Like, I'll google this for you. Solar Parking lot. This is how you do it.

You don't put them under the freaking cars. This provides shade for the cars so your car doesn't get hot when you go back to it. And these things will last 20 years with virtually no maintenance. Unless you've done this to every single car parking space.

Look at all this. look at all this like a Taco Bell. There They could, like, you know, whack some solar panels over there and power the local Taco Bell. And like in Curiosity Lab's own car park.

I mean, you know there's a few trees around there, so that's a bit of an issue. But um, yeah, yeah and come on. put them on the damp rooftops. God's all the parking lots.

Goodness sake. Well sure, after proving to be a fire in France, they had to try it in America. Come on John, We all knew this is another green scam. I'd rather see solar canopies installed over open canals in the southwest to help reduce evaporation.

Yeah, good point and I'm thinking they'll be a heck of a lot easier to install and maintain. They damn well would be guaranteed place every time the road is overlaid or wide. and then there's liability every time someone wrecks a non-standard road. The lawyers will be suing the city, county, and state and store those panels as well as the maker of the panels.

I worked for Dot for 34 years. There you go. Department of Transportation in the Us. M Gulf Coast Guy knows it.

The complaints missed. Oh, here we go. Oh, do we have a true believer? We have a true believer. The complaints missed the point.

Yes. Angled solar panels are more efficient. Yes, Solar panels on buildings, roofs, driveways, cyborgs and other surfers will experience less wear. Dot, dot, Dot.

Wait for it. I haven't read this yet. Here we go. However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't explore putting solar on roads too.

If an effective if an effective means of doing so can be found, then the roads effectively become a worldwide power grid, providing more electricity than we need to any location people drive to. Nobody is saying that it's time to put solar on every road. Yes, they are for the last five freaking years. That's all we've been damn well hearing about.

Ah, and pouring endless money into. the more these technologies are tested and improved, the more areas will be viable to use them. If it does not make sense. Now, we should not be testing that crowd held sway, then solar power would not exist at all.

No, this is the old Wright Brothers thing. You know. We'd likely still be debating the pros and cons of using fire. Not here we go.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Here we go. Xlvolt has got a reply. There is nothing to explore because we know it doesn't work.

It's a waste of investment, at least useful form of green energy. It's a green scam. There are. no, we're close to the point we need to put sideways.

It is absolutely wasteful of solar cells. That's right. we've got to manufacture these panels. There's embodied energy which goes into manufacturing solar panels, and we should for the benefit of the planet.

We should be doing that in the most efficient way possible, in the most cost effective manner, and deploying them in the most cost effective manner. But no. we're going to actually put them in the worst possible, most inefficient location possible on the roads. That's never going to change.

That fact is never going to change no matter how much research you put into these solar freaking roadways. The fact is, you're putting them in the worst possible location. The worst possible angle, The worst possible environment. The most rugged environment you could possibly think of driving cars, the most unreliable environment.

and like when existing solutions already exist on rooftops, over parking lots, over walkways and and things like that. Yes, I'll have to point out the South Korea Solar Roadway. Here it is. there we go.

Don't put them on the roads. There we go. That's a bike path. Okay, the South Koreans know what they're doing.

Whack the panels on there. They're angled efficiently. These suckers will last for 20 years and there's no look, no maintenance on them. And they produce nice shaded things that you can drive your uh, bikes and ride your bikes under for.

And this goes for like what is it? 20 kilometers or something? It's a long way, right? This is how you do it. They are just getting absolutely owned. In the comments, are you sure this isn't a typo? Produces more than 1300 kilowatt hours? At first glance, I'd say this is a stupid idea. Oh hello.

Thinking about it more says it might not be all the solar isn't trying to charge the car's driver out, but rather he's feeding the grid with 300 kilowatt hours a year. Half less than half of what I produce with my three kilowatt system on my roof, which is about the same size, order of magnitude, less reliability, and like order of magnitude more cost a load. More comments. No, no, we're we're done.

Absolutely. Look, they're absolutely getting owned in the comments curiosity lab. whoever. I don't know what the deal is there, but no, this is just Georgia gets his first epic solar roadways failure.

Thank you very much. 2020 still delivered. the coalesce what way Which I've a link in this video. Watch it, it's up here somewhere.

and uh, yeah, that goes through all the real data. If you want to see the nitty gritty, this was just poking fun at this ridiculous, demonstrably stupid idea that just keeps coming. Gonna have to keep playing whack-a-mole for this for the for the rest of my career I think. But I, I can't not, there's just too many lols like I.

I can't pass up the lulls on solar roadways. So anyway, there you go. 2020 still delivered. Let us know your thoughts in the comments down below.

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