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I dunno. What happens in case of a crash? If a vehicle burns on the PV panels? You don't want to pour water on a PV installation.

And a road built from glass? What happens in winter with ice forming? That's not going to go well.




You're not going to use glass panels in your roads. You're far more likely to use printed spools of flexible cells and cover them with a translucent, pourable protective layer. Some form of epoxy, or a concrete impregnated with optical fibers, perhaps? The efficiency per unit area will be horribly low, but when multiplied by the area of the whole road, you still end up with a lot of power.

You will lose some area to potholes. That's just another reason not to use the expensive, glass-covered cells.




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