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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"
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
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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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