Topic: Solar roadways.

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Solar freak'n canopies!
Drive without fear of sunstrike!

Self driving cars.

Drive while asleep!

Reply #25 Posted: June 02, 2014, 08:35:05 pm

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Bounty has fucked solar roadways in its ass.

I'm a little rigid.

Reply #26 Posted: June 02, 2014, 08:38:30 pm



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I like how Bounty is coming up with all these great ideas on how to solve the world energy problems, instead of criticizing other peoples ideas.

Regardless of what he was doing, no point throwing money at something which has some fundamental flaws.  A slick video and a good idea in concept don't mean much.

See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFTwthNrL_w

Reply #27 Posted: June 02, 2014, 08:59:34 pm

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I like how Bounty is coming up with all these great ideas on how to solve the world energy problems, instead of criticizing other peoples ideas.

Solar roadways doesn't solve the worlds energy problems either?

Reply #28 Posted: June 02, 2014, 10:12:44 pm
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See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFTwthNrL_w


Imagine dropping that and it coming apart..
"Has anyone seen my wifi? or my CPU? it's on the floor here somewhere"

Reply #29 Posted: June 03, 2014, 10:21:44 am
<a href="steam://friends/add/76561197966242864/">Add me to Steam</a> <- Fixed! lol

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See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFTwthNrL_w

Their angle or "if you break da stuff den u haff 2 throw away, dis is wastey and bad for da nveeromints" rips my nutsack. If anything, if these modular phones make it to the market, they're not going to ease the manufacturing process they're going to create yet another burden because people are still buying and discarding. There's more plastic being used, more tech (connection points for each block) more batteries, more screens, more everything because not only are they going to be producing the phones, they're going to be producing extra after market 'bloks' in excess, in different sizes and capacities that let the user 'upgrade'.

Fucking tools.
Last Edit: June 03, 2014, 11:14:16 am by Retardobot

Reply #30 Posted: June 03, 2014, 11:10:55 am



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Since my last post: all of the thruths, none of the falses.

Reply #31 Posted: June 04, 2014, 09:15:54 am
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Solar Roadways?

What the hell is this bullshit?

These people need to go back to school. Here is something that actually works:


South Korea's wireless electric roads - Truthloader Investigates

Reply #32 Posted: July 26, 2014, 03:21:22 pm
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Solar Roadways?

What the hell is this bullshit?

These people need to go back to school. Here is something that actually works:


No.

Lol.

Absolutely not. This is maybe as bad as solar roadways.

What happens when one vehicle breaks down?

Any ideas how efficient inductive charging is? Any ideas how efficient inductive charging through tar seal is?

It's a neat gimmick for mobile phones and maybe laptops, but shouldn't be applied to anything much larger.

Reply #33 Posted: July 26, 2014, 06:02:32 pm
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Solar Roadways?

What the hell is this bullshit?

These people need to go back to school. Here is something that actually works:



No.

Lol.

Absolutely not. This is maybe as bad as solar roadways.

What happens when one vehicle breaks down?

Any ideas how efficient inductive charging is? Any ideas how efficient inductive charging through tar seal is?

It's a neat gimmick for mobile phones and maybe laptops, but shouldn't be applied to anything much larger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
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Punctuality

The Shinkansen is very reliable thanks to several factors, including its near-total separation from slower traffic. In 2012, JR Central reported that the Shinkansen's average delay from schedule per train was 36 seconds. This includes delays due to uncontrollable causes, such as natural disasters. The record, in 1997, was 18 seconds.

Your move Bounty Hunter. I suggest you move your pawns out first to make room for your bigger pieces.

The argument is quite simple: Shinkansen never fails. Could it fail? Yes, but without practical testing then criticising it makes you look like a negative nancy

Also I will counter all your arguments with: South Korea

Less Pylons Required

Reply #34 Posted: July 26, 2014, 06:27:23 pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
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Punctuality

The Shinkansen is very reliable thanks to several factors, including its near-total separation from slower traffic. In 2012, JR Central reported that the Shinkansen's average delay from schedule per train was 36 seconds. This includes delays due to uncontrollable causes, such as natural disasters. The record, in 1997, was 18 seconds.

Your move Bounty Hunter. I suggest you move your pawns out first to make room for your bigger pieces.

The argument is quite simple: Shinkansen never fails. Could it fail? Yes, but without practical testing then criticising it makes you look like a negative nancy

Also I will counter all your arguments with: South Korea

Less Pylons Required


Train != Bus.

Non sequitur.

Your move. I'm going out for dinner, because I'm polite my response may be delayed. Have an excellent evening.

Reply #35 Posted: July 26, 2014, 06:42:50 pm
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No.

Lol.

Absolutely not. This is maybe as bad as solar roadways.

What happens when one vehicle breaks down?

Any ideas how efficient inductive charging is? Any ideas how efficient inductive charging through tar seal is?

It's a neat gimmick for mobile phones and maybe laptops, but shouldn't be applied to anything much larger.

But it is applied to a bus, and it works, I just saw a video of it.

If a bus breaks down, then you fix it!


Reply #36 Posted: July 26, 2014, 06:45:37 pm

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Spoiler :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen
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Punctuality

The Shinkansen is very reliable thanks to several factors, including its near-total separation from slower traffic. In 2012, JR Central reported that the Shinkansen's average delay from schedule per train was 36 seconds. This includes delays due to uncontrollable causes, such as natural disasters. The record, in 1997, was 18 seconds.

Your move Bounty Hunter. I suggest you move your pawns out first to make room for your bigger pieces.

The argument is quite simple: Shinkansen never fails. Could it fail? Yes, but without practical testing then criticising it makes you look like a negative nancy

Also I will counter all your arguments with: South Korea

Less Pylons Required

Train != Bus.

Non sequitur.

Your move. I'm going out for dinner, because I'm polite my response may be delayed. Have an excellent evening.
That is a better move. A good solid opening. I hope you are having a steak for dinner too. I could murder a steak right now

First: Pictures

Next Criticisms:
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Skeptics both at home and abroad had warned that the costs involved in installing the equipment show that it could be less practical than other schemes, such as those in which vehicles recharge at designated locations or using cables. The commercialization process has cost up to KRW 26.6 billion between December 2011 and June 2013. But experts say that they see a lot of potential for the technology for public transport applications, adding that the remaining question is how to cut down the cost.

Next some Information
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A device attached to the bottom of the bus draws up power from the road using a technology called “shaped magnetic field in resonance.” Electric cables embedded under the road create electromagnetic fields, which are then picked up by a coil inside the device and converted into electricity. The energy transfer rate from road wires to the car has reached 75 percent.

The 12 km route on the public road is the first of its kind in the world according to project developers, who added that 10 more public buses are scheduled to be added by 2015.

The battery in the electric vehicle is less than one-third the size of those in other electric vehicles, which helps reduce not only the overall weight of the vehicle but also the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during power generation, thus improving the overall efficiency of the vehicle.

This article I am quoting mentions 75% efficiency but it comes from 2013 and the most recent video has 77% efficiency mentioned and shown on the monitor.

And finally the most recent video from January. There are others but they're blocked in our country for some reason. Not that it would matter because they appear to be in Korean


Bus, Korea South vehicles/ charging Gumi, system wireless electric OLEV
My guess for why this is in South Korea is probably due to an overhead wire ban and environmental reasons
And finally the BBC Documentary:
http://www.bbc.com/specialfeatures/horizonsbusiness/seriesfour/episode-8-fuel-for-thought/?vid=p021ljhq
Cost: $2,000,000
This will repay itself in 5 - 6 years
Normal Cost: $4000 a month in Diesel
Electric Bus:   $1000 a month in Electricity
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In all seriousness: This would be totally worth it if we could pull out our Back to the Future hoverboards and use them to get around
Last Edit: July 26, 2014, 07:31:41 pm by Tiwaking!

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It seems there have been some improvements in efficiency.

I suppose their proposed system is not much different to the idea of a tram (not train), except the wires run under the road, and there is no physical connection to the tram.

I concede the system is certainly worth consideration for public transport.

Well played Tiwa. I had pasta, it was nice.

Reply #38 Posted: July 26, 2014, 11:45:29 pm
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It seems there have been some improvements in efficiency.

I suppose their proposed system is not much different to the idea of a tram (not train), except the wires run under the road, and there is no physical connection to the tram.

I concede the system is certainly worth consideration for public transport.

Well played Tiwa. I had pasta, it was nice.
I was less curious about efficiency and more curious about why this system was better than just recharging the buses now and then.

It turns out that the downtime from recharging normal electric buses is quite high due to the buses being completely out of commission while charging. That includes the idea of having charging stations at bus stops.

This system lets the bus travel up to 2km on a full battery. The segmentation of the system means that power is only provided when the bus passes over a section

By charging the buses while in motion, it cuts downtime to a negligible amount. Even better, it decreases the need for storage on the bus which cuts down the size of the engine and any battery requirements.


It is such a weird equation: Bigger Battery = Less Efficiency. Bigger Engine = Less Efficiency. More Recharge Stops = Less Efficiency


In comparison to Solar Roads: It seems that one Korean Businessman can do more than USD$2,000,000 and a bunch of idiot hippies could ever do

I would have liked to have seen this in Dunedin instead of the Forsyth Barr Stadium which, by my calculations, will take 132 years to pay for

p.s Shinkansen is an almost 100% reliable electric train system
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Reply #41 Posted: July 04, 2016, 06:24:30 pm
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