MEP EP#259: Troncrete
Parker
- Your C@$% Is Mine Now
- We actually brought up the security report on this device back in Oct 2020 on episode MEP 245: K-factoring A Gumbo
- Qiui, the China-based manufacturer of the device, which is aptly called Cellmate, did not respond to a request for comment
Stephen
- Solar Freaking Roadways!
- First talked about on MEP EP1…
- “France building a huge solar roadway. This again?”
- Solar Roadway
- Timeline
- 2006 solar roadways is founded
- 2009 - 100k small business innovation grant from USDOT
- 2011 - 750k small business innovation grant from USDOT to make small “parking lot”
- This is what shows up in all the videos.
- 2014 Indigogo campaign raises 2.2mil - the highest at the time
- 2016 given an additional 750k by USDOT
- 2016 Jeff Jones Town Square
- 30 panels
- Supposed 60k install cost
- Wiki - .25kW per day
- Typical Home install 1.45kW/day
- According to thunderF00T ⅓rd of the energy is consumed by the LEDs and the remainder is in heat.
- 2016 France installs Wattway
- 5.2 million to build expected 767 kwh per day.
- $20/ kwh 13x the cost of rooftop installation. Only produced 409kwh/day
- 2020 December USA gets its first real solar road! Woohoo!
- City of Peachtree Corners in Gwinnett County, Georgia
- About the size of a typical Rooftop install but less than half as efficient
- 4 Solar roadways we can find in the world… only 1 has been declared a success.
- Dutch bike path
- 70-metre test bike path generating 3,000 kWh
- Looks to be a meter wide. 70 sq meters or ~760 sq ft
- Average house only needs ~300 sq ft of solar panels on a roof....
