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Photos show the world’s first solar road that’s turned out to be a colossal failure because it’s falling apart and doesn’t generate enough energy.
France appears to have been on the solar road to nowhere.
In July, the French daily newspaper Le Monde reported that the 0.6-mile solar road was a fiasco.
In December 2016, when the trial road was unveiled, the French Ministry of the Environment called it “unprecedented.” French officials said the road, made of photovoltaic panels, would generate electricity to power streetlights in Tourouvre, a local town.
But less than three years later, a report published by Global Construction Review says France’s road dream may be over. Cracks have appeared, and in 2018, part of the road had to be demolished due to damage from wear and tear.
Even at its peak, the road was only producing half of the expected energy, because engineers didn’t take into consideration rotting leaves falling on the road.
Here what the road looked like in all of its former glory, and how it got to this point. more
h/t Left Coast Dan.
Bill Clinton is a rapist
it’s the French … why should anyone be surprised?
if you didn’t see this coming, you are a moron … or French … or a D’rat
(but I repeat myself)
From the first instant I heard of a proposed solar road, my immediate response was, “WTF? That will never work.”
Thank you, France, for the affirmation.
Bet those solar powered cars weren’t MUCH better! 🙄
Not THAT is a road worthy of the name Barack Hussein Obama…
Oops, I meant “Now”
Why would anyone place solar panels on a road surface? Road surfaces only last 5-10 years.
“Bill Clinton is a rapist.” What the hell does that have to do with anything?
Nonetheless: bill clinton is a rapist. hillary clinton is an accessory to the crimes.
Cruise through a trailer park with Hundred-Dollar Bill. Ya never know whutcher gonna pick up.
France’s genius engineers are not at all dismayed. Learning from their mistakes, they are designing solar powered horses to pull the cars along the solar powered roads. The horses will pull at a slower rate, which will not damage the delicate highway.
“It’s a perfect menage a trois of modern technology and 18th century technology with a sense of green environmentalism”, said M. Olivier Putrede of the French Highway Ministry.
“Making horses solar powered is just a matter of implanting chips along their spines. They of course will also continue to eat their usual fare of oats and grass. The dung they deposit on the roads will be further used to produce clean methane.”