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This is going widely off-topic, but for interests sake there have
been a lot of controversy over the 'Solar Freakin Roadways' and some
good points made by an online persona 'thunderf00t' that discredits
a LOT of the solar roadways benefits, making it incredibly bad idea.
All the stats etc are based off of the US though.<br>
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Videos here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t">https://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t</a><br>
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First main one:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4</a><br>
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And response to Solar Roadways backlash:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocV-RnVQdcs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocV-RnVQdcs</a><br>
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Having said that, my on topic thought about building out Fiber along
with roadworks is that I believe the roadworks plans should have
availability for pits and ducts in the design, not an afterthought,
but laying the actual cable would probably be troublesome as I'd
imagine the road crews likely not taking enough care with diggers
etc. So build in the infrastructure for cable pulling, then come
through and pull it after the fact, which I believe is how most
roads are built now anyways. The highway upgrade near me, you can
easily see many ducts running underneath the overpass' etc that are
obviously for different parts of infrastructure, and nicely spaced
pits along the roadside.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/06/14 10:24, Jake Anderson wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Actually in that regard it should be
better, first they have a strong concrete foundation which will
stop weeds, and on top of that they have a glass surface as the
actual road member, that will be pretty much immune to any of
the conventional attacks on the road surface, though I do worry
some about hoons doing burnouts and they will obviously be
damaged during a serious crash.<br>
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I wonder if a compromise could be made to create a flexible
roadway surface based on the tiles.<br>
Some kind of (stainless?) steel webbing interlocking all the
tiles, sit that atop an impermeable membrane of some kind over
the standard road base.<br>
Going to be a lot more work than pouring dinosaurs over crushed
up rocks though ;-><br>
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On 19/06/14 10:15, James Hodgkinson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">My first question with these solar tiles is this
- if we can't keep weeds and cracks out of our existing
concrete/tiled pathways and roadways, what are we going to do
when we build our entire infrastructure out of interlocking
tiles?
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<div>Also... if you actually read into the design of roadways,
one of the major issues is water getting under the sealed
surface and eating it away, the other is heat
expansion/contraction ruining its integrity. Without some
sort of (endlessly maintained) seal, the road surface will
only last for short times.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 June 2014 09:41, Alex Samad -
Yieldbroker <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>></span>
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So I was reading something that I think it rather a good
idea and that got me to thinking why it wouldn't happen in
Australia ..<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/on-the-hot-road-to-cooler-highways-20140618-zsd94.html"
target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/comment/on-the-hot-road-to-cooler-highways-20140618-zsd94.html</a><br>
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But it also got me thinking why you couldn't mix this with
say a NBN roll out. If you are redoing major roads
couldn't you also install fibre... Share the cost of a
Fibre NBN roll out. Seems like a win win win...<br>
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I still dream about a NBN fttp ...<br>
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