25th
The Infrastructuralist kinda goes to town on this solar roadway idea. Kinda in a funny way. So much of it screams of awesome/terrible idea that I’m confused. I’m reminded of a bike trail made out of recycled glass in Massachusetts. It looks soooo pretty but it also drives plenty of punctured tube business to any adjacent bike shop.
It’d like to see solar panel placement get more creative and artistic and the manufacturing itself get greener and cheaper. Even if solar roadways don’t pan out, that there is an interesting experiment in a combination of technologies that’s got to lead to some other applications. We’ll be putting screens in our roads and solar panels behind weird glass things down the road anyway. It’s just a matter of whether we’ll actually put them in the road.
