Solar Sidewalks Within Five Years

Sounds great, but I'll believe it when I see it.

 

yeah, I wouldn't hold me breath on this one. I'll be happy if the cost of mono and poly silicon cells continues to come down at a steady rate.

 

Ditto! (Not to sound like Rush!)

Icarus

 

"Within the next five years, thin-film solar technology will be embedded into
sidewalks..."

I'd like to know just where and how often this is going to happen.

Here in Ballamer, it costs ~$100 just to repair/replace one roughly 3 ft. square
section of existing simple, good old fashioned, concrete sidewalk. In virtually all
jurisdictions, homeowners don't even own the sidewalk, although they are
responsible for snow removal, etc.

So what, the city is going to do the installation? I don't think so.

What a cockamamy idea. What in the world are the folks at IBM thinking?

 

Why stop at sidewalks? Why not cover roads and parking lots too?

 

And the roof of every Big Box Store.

 

Of course we don't need to wait for any breakthroughs to do that one.

 

Should generatye megawatts here in Phoenix where the temps exceed 110 in the sunner and we get over 310 days of sunshine.