On October 3rd, the Solar Roadways company unveiled the first American solar tiles in Sandpoint, Idaho.
It is done! World's first #solarroadways pilot is installed! pic.twitter.com/G5d1X5WhrP
— Solar Roadways® (@SolarRoadways) October 2, 2016
The project cost $4.3 million and took 6.5 years to develop and is creating enough electricity to run a blow dryer.
Yeah..you heard that right. Just one blow dryer.
Here is what it looks like:
Andrew Follett at The Daily Caller reported:
The Solar FREAKIN’ Roadways project generated an average of 0.62 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per day since it began publicly posting power data in late March. To put that in perspective, the average microwave or blow drier consumes about 1 kWh per day.
On March 29th, the solar road panels generated 0.26 kWh, or less electricity than a single plasma television consumes. On March 31st, the panels generated 1.06 kWh, enough to barely power a single microwave. The panels have been under-performing their expectations due to design flaws, but even if they had worked perfectly they’d have only powered a single water fountain and the lights in a nearby restroom.
Wow.
$4.3 Million well spent….
NOT!
Libs sure know how to waste a lot of money.
Back to the ‘drawing board’ there “green peeps”. But ‘good intentions’ don’t pay the bulldog. You best hire some Conservative engineers. Hmm?