[AusNOG] Mixing tech stuff

[Jake Anderson]

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.

I wonder if a compromise could be made to create a flexible roadway 
surface based on the tiles.
Some kind of (stainless?) steel webbing interlocking all the tiles, sit 
that atop an impermeable membrane of some kind over the standard road base.
Going to be a lot more work than pouring dinosaurs over crushed up rocks 
though ;->

On 19/06/14 10:15, James Hodgkinson wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> James
>
>
> On 19 June 2014 09:41, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker 
> <Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com <mailto:Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     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 ..
>
>     http://www.smh.com.au/comment/on-the-hot-road-to-cooler-highways-20140618-zsd94.html
>
>     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...
>
>     I still dream about a NBN fttp ...
>
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