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2 minutes ago, WMGroomAK said:

Power storage by Samsung?

It's the battery not the storage that caught explosions from Note 7

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13 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

It's the battery not the storage that caught explosions from Note 7

Maybe I should have said Energy Storage...  Do wonder if they bought up all of those Note 7 batteries on the cheap and tried to add them into the roadways. xD

13 hours ago, App4that said:

But how do they perform at 1080p?

The thermal throttling is horrible for racing games.

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3 minutes ago, App4that said:

But how do they perform at 1080p?

In Crysis 3

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Just now, WMGroomAK said:

The thermal throttling is horrible for racing games.

I told them to use a better AIO....

 

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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1 minute ago, App4that said:

I told them to use a better AIO....

 

Welp there's your issue. 

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Just now, DildorTheDecent said:

Welp there's your issue. 

Custom loop, with government funding. You trippin

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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1 minute ago, App4that said:

Custom loop, with government funding. You trippin

If they want the job done properly, they'll have to pay. 

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Just now, DildorTheDecent said:

If they want the job done properly, they'll have to pay. 

Found the guy who never wrote a grant proposal! 

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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i thought they meant the *actual* solar roadway in france, not the joke that is solar freaking roadways.

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15 minutes ago, App4that said:

Custom loop, with government funding. You trippin

*Phase cooling 

Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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21 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

*Phase cooling 

LN2 cooling required or only can be used in the arctic

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But does/did it have rgb?

And on the first day god said: "Cue one GO" And there was light!

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6 minutes ago, WMGroomAK said:

RGB LEDs confirmed! But they need MORE!!!!

 

http://www.solarroadways.com/Home/Specifics

 

You mean, more money from suckers without a clue.

 

You know what, they earned that. If they can successfully land such a scam, they earned the money and the scammed deserved to be scammed.

I deal in shitposts and shitpost accessories.

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1 minute ago, Urishima said:

You mean, more money from suckers without a clue.

 

You know what, they earned that. If they can successfully land such a scam, they earned the money and the scammed deserved to be scammed.

It's not a scam. They developed solar panels you can drive on so that they can create energy from mostly unused space. It is the same idea as putting solar panels on your roof.

And on the first day god said: "Cue one GO" And there was light!

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12 minutes ago, purple_rider said:

It's not a scam. They developed solar panels you can drive on so that they can create energy from mostly unused space. It is the same idea as putting solar panels on your roof.

The bloke up there has made several videos on the topic showing in detail why the proposed idea does not work. It is a waste of money. This specific video up there shows that they are a massive failure.

 

Sso they are either running a very successful con, or about as stupid as the people giving them money.

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21 minutes ago, purple_rider said:

It's not a scam. They developed solar panels you can drive on so that they can create energy from mostly unused space. It is the same idea as putting solar panels on your roof.

the thing is, the panels are a hilareously bad road surface, they are appareantly insanely unreliable, and they use more power than they generate.

 

meanwhile in the netherlands a project that's proven to be viable:

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23 minutes ago, purple_rider said:

It's not a scam. They developed solar panels you can drive on so that they can create energy from mostly unused space. It is the same idea as putting solar panels on your roof.

It may not be a "scam," in that they believe that it works, but looking at the above video in the OP...the idea is absolute tosh. The power draw is horrible - which I would expect for LEDs that need to be bright enough in broad daylight(but they aren't anyway. Those reflections were absolutely awful and I could barely see the LEDs). If you and others(including the company itself) truly believe they're going to replace roads with this idea, you and the others are wrong.

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1 hour ago, purple_rider said:

It's not a scam. They developed solar panels you can drive on so that they can create energy from mostly unused space. It is the same idea as putting solar panels on your roof.

Yes it is 100% a scam if that video is accurate.  If they took a lot of money and years and all they managed was a pointlessly tiny area that never worked never generated any power then how is that not a scam?

 

They have seemingly failed to deliver on any of their crazy promises.

 

59 minutes ago, manikyath said:

the thing is, the panels are a hilareously bad road surface, they are appareantly insanely unreliable, and they use more power than they generate.

 

meanwhile in the netherlands a project that's proven to be viable:

 

The stuff in this picture looks far better IMO.  Hex shaped panels are not practical when roads are rectangles.  Parking lots, walkways, etc. are most often not shaped to match well with a hex shaped building block.  

 

Using a square or rectangle shaped panels seems much better to me.  

 

I think the basic idea is cool but it'd be really stupid to give those two idiots any more money.

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2 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It may not be a "scam," in that they believe that it works, but looking at the above video in the OP...the idea is absolute tosh. The power draw is horrible - which I would expect for LEDs that need to be bright enough in broad daylight(but they aren't anyway. Those reflections were absolutely awful and I could barely see the LEDs). If you and others(including the company itself) truly believe they're going to replace roads with this idea, you and the others are wrong.

This particular company could probably be a scam, I agree with you in that respect. The idea itself, however, is not.

And on the first day god said: "Cue one GO" And there was light!

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