<story><title>France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels</title><url>http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/france-pa7ve-1000km-ro7ad-so7lar-panel7s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a &amp;#x27;simple, easy, wrong&amp;#x27; solution. It seems that some people have gross misconceptions about the barrier to solar panels.  People living in crowded cities think there is some sort of shortage of space.  In a broad sense this is of course very far from the truth. The barrier to solar is cost per kw&amp;#x2F;hr. As that goes down, solar installations go up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wang_li</author><text>&amp;gt; Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a &amp;#x27;simple, easy, wrong&amp;#x27; solution.&lt;p&gt;You are likely not seeing the same &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; that the powers that be in France are seeing. When looked at through the lens of graft, corruption and cronyism, it&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;simple, easy, and profitable&amp;#x27;. Whether it ever delivers worthwhile amounts of power at efficient costs is entirely secondary.</text></comment>
<story><title>France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels</title><url>http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/france-pa7ve-1000km-ro7ad-so7lar-panel7s/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CyberDildonics</author><text>Paving roads with solar panels is a classic example of a &amp;#x27;simple, easy, wrong&amp;#x27; solution. It seems that some people have gross misconceptions about the barrier to solar panels.  People living in crowded cities think there is some sort of shortage of space.  In a broad sense this is of course very far from the truth. The barrier to solar is cost per kw&amp;#x2F;hr. As that goes down, solar installations go up.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chillingeffect</author><text>&amp;gt; People living in crowded cities think there is some sort of shortage of space.&lt;p&gt;Too true.  When I spent some time in an urban technology research lab, the researchers and students gravitated strongly toward projects described as &amp;quot;a little tiny $X that you can carry with you.&amp;quot;  Their focuses narrowed from stage performances to screen-based art.  In the Indra&amp;#x27;s web of city life, the wide, open space of rural areas was not only forgotten, but incomprehensible and unavailable as a resource for deployment.</text></comment>