for the tree hugers and greenies,
France’s minister of Ecology and Energy announced that the
country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years,
with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people, the
first section of the Wattway road, a 0.6-mile stretch, opened this week in
Normandy, "There is no need to rebuild infrastructure," Colas CEO
Hervé Le Bouc told Myriam Chauvot for the French magazine Les Echoes in 2015, "At Chambéry and Grenoble, was tested successfully on Wattway a cycle of 1
million vehicles, or 20 years of normal traffic a road, and the surface does
not move."
all well and good but two things spring to mind, firstly the
cost,
a quick look at the Dutch solar road, the 70 meter cycle with solar
panels in Krommenie raised in its first year enough electricity for three households, the so-called SolaRoad yielded 9,800 kilowatt hours on, in the
province of North Holland and the developers are satisfied, "We have now
gone through all seasons and sit at the top of expectations, these paths can
make a substantial contribution to the energy supply, especially if you combine
it with solar panels on roofs, '' said Sten de Wit of research institute TNO, the
development and construction has now reached a stage where 3 homes in Krommenie now have enough electricity for their daily needs, naturally fossil or nuclear fuels will be use to keep the three houses warm and bright in the nighttime, a stunning victory for tree hugers and greenies all for just 3 million euros, (at today's rate £2,553,173 or $3,137,010) a true testament for common sense, I hope the French experiment uses different panels to the Dutch, the second slight worry I have about the experimental new road surface is, now how to put this delicately? theft, if these are top quality solar panels they must cost a few pennies, sorry franc's, sorry Euros each, I can imagine gangs of people no matter which country the tiles are laid in, taking advantage of solar tiles left out overnight and taking a few tiles home, well it would mean free electricity, but then maybe it is me getting a bit cynical in my frail dotage!
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