cially if you live
in the dreamland that is
Solar Freakin’
Roadways.
the total cost of Solar Freakin’
Roadways is 56 trillion dollars (or
around $20 million per mile), which
is just under four times the national
debt of the USA.
The Brusaws
and others say
that starting small will
generate capital to build
more, but even that doesn’t look
likely, considering how far off we
are from actually making a profit
on these things. As much as we’d
all love to believe that there will
still be energy left over to sell, the
compelling maths shown by critics shows that this is very far from
reality.
On the other side of the Atlantic,
the Dutch SolaRoad, assuming it
will lengthen to 100m, will cost
around 3 million Euros (3.5 million
dollars), which seems expensive
considering that it will only produce enough energy to power three
houses. But that’s neither here nor
there. It is what this 3 million represents that is important – a step
towards a renewable and sustainable future.
To give some kind of perspective,
one such astronomical estimate
of the total cost of Solar Freakin’
Roadways is 56 trillion dollars (or
around $20 million per mile), which
is just under four times the national
debt of the USA. This is admittedly
only an estimate, and is one of the
only ones available. The Brusaws
are yet to have offered an official
detailed quote, which is actually
quite worrying in itself.
So… What’s next?
Excitingly, many institutions and
organisations are commercially interested in this concept. For
example the Mayor of London, Boris
Johnson, has been mulling over the
possibility of installing these road34