Hi I know I said I would won't try not to do solar roadways I shouldn't have to do solar roadways again, but it's the law that keeps on giving I Couldn't pass this up. This is hilarious. Of course we're not talking about the new Fred the coal Wes what way the French one or the Netherlands one or the new Chinese one which we'll take a quick look at at the end. No, we're talking about the original.

the genuine solar roadways from the Bruce ores in the U.s. Solar freaking roadways because it does so much. Not just it's not just a solar roadway, but it's intelligent X hexagonal interlocking units or some. It's got LED lights, first line and signage.

And but the big claim to fame is that it remains snow and ice free. And there it is. powering the thing. And they've got internal heaters in these things.

Never have to shovel snow off your driveway or your road ever again, right? That's the promise. And of course there were articles galore about this. You know, wood snaps zones and snow and ice. and fantastic.

Or they just shoveled money at the Bruce ORS to develop this thing. Everyone was gugu about it and well, what's the reality? Oh here it is. At night you can still see some of the LEDs on here. Oh my goodness, look at it.

Trust me, there's a solar roadway under there. even though they've never ever single cars never driven on this thing. and I can't help it but realize that the only thing here that's not covered with snow is the construct op of thinking that like the very top of the display unit on the control box is covered in what a foot of snow or something. but the only thing that's not covered is the top of the box Here we which has the electronics in at the power supplies to power all the bloody LEDs because the Sol's are generating any power because I at night time be there covered in snow snow and the box is probably getting so warm on top from powering all the LEDs that nobody can see the snow on top of the control box which someone stop me anyway it gets funnier.

thanks - I'm Stephen Harrison on Twitter he captured this from the from once again the Lowell that keeps on giving which is the webcam for the solar roadways he captured. look none other then I'm sure it's our good friends. the Bruce's are out there at eight o'clock at night. Chavez Who else would be out there shoveling snow off these solar roadways at eight o'clock at night? A male and female couple.

It's gotta be the Bruce Osgood Autumn, you know, commitment to their project. No worries, this shovel in this, the snow of this eye. There they are. But of course at the end of it all, you've got to take your selfie down here.

You got to take. oh you've gotta not selfie. You got to take a photo, your Facebook page or whatever. I I won't bother to go through the calculations on why.

it's just a demonstrably ridiculous idea to try and heat up roads to melt the snow. I Understand that maybe in some circumstances you could actually do this, like maybe in some of the Nordic regions that have lots of geothermal. You could maybe pump the water under the pump. you know, the hot spring water or whatever under the roads.

and maybe that's effective. Doing it with electricity is just ridiculous. and I don't have to do it because Thunderfoot has already done the calculations on there. so we'll well let that one roll.

Look, it's not exactly rocket science to understand that if it was cheaper to melt snow rather than just to move it to the side of the road, then we would use flamethrowers for snow removal, not snow plows. And the reason we don't do that is because it is much cheaper just to move the snow to the side of the road. Look, it's not even a matter of a discussion. it's simple thermodynamics.

You know that conservation of energy stuff we were going over earlier. If you want to turn one kilogram of ice at freezing point into one kilo of water at freezing point, it requires about 300 kilojoules per kilogram. And according to the Department of Transport stats, the typical place in America gets saved 13 centimeters of snow, which is the equivalent of about 1.3 centimeters of ice. We know the target Road area and therefore we can calculate how much base there is to melt and therefore we know how much power is needed to melt that ice.

Therefore, we can calculate the electricity bill using cheap electricity. Oh yeah, you're right. billion really doesn't sound very cheap? I've got a great idea for saving money. Let's replace it with a system that if it was 100 percent efficient, would cost 5 billion dollars per year.

and that's ignoring the fact that these solar panels will be in the northern part of America. Weather isn't much sunlight in the winter when there's even less sunlight and they're going to be covered in snow. Which means they're not going to generate any body power to melt the snow. The website isn't done with making thanks underfoot.

Seriously like to. The idea of melting these roads is like heating up roads to melt the ice is just demonstrably ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, yes, I am very aware of the recent news as many people have pointed out.

Thank you that China and now they've installed what a two-kilometer They've beat the French one. They've installed a 2 kilometer stretch of road in the Jin Ninh Province in China and it opened to traffic on December 28 uses transparent concrete. Yeah, what's wrong with transparent concrete? Well, it's going to have the same transmissive losses as the coal s What way One: It looks very similar. In fact, to the coal s what way one did.

they still a key to the Patent Office there. Anyway, what is what will be the result of this thing As far as I know, there's no numbers yet. but if you've got numbers, point them out. But you can bet your bottom dollar we've seen it in the Solar Robo Solar Freaking Roadways test results Were seen it in the Netherlands Solar Road NL test results and we've seen it in the French Coal S What Way test results as well.

It is just like I think. My conclusion last time was that it's 30 times less efficient or something like $1 per work. What? For Like, it's just it's going to be exactly the same result for the Chinese solar Roadways. So I like they keep trying but you can't beat the laws of physics Captain Sorry, it's it's just not possible.

And you know people keep pointing out that the Solar Roby's fanboy is there still out there and they keep pointing out that all but like, give it a chance. What if you know it, at least it's better than returning. some energy is better than none. Well, no.

as I said here, sometimes just sometimes a new solution is not actually needed. Just go with what works. So when we've covered all of the parking lots and in some cases what they're doing in South Korea you can cover the roadways and we'll put what in the middle of the road whay solar panels elevated up all the sides of the roadways. When we've covered all the parking spaces and all the rooftops with solar panels because and solar farms there.

If you've got a track in one, that's probably going to be that efficient. But until we've covered all the roofs and all the parking lots in existence, then we'll talk about solar roadways. Until then, forget it. Catch you next time.