Solar-powered 'smart' roads could zap snow, and ice off of roads.
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[QUOTE=bravehat;27628709]...you know those things cars have called doors?
Yeah they were made to open to allow people to vacate the car in emergencies and when they want to leave the car, I think being cooked in your car would fall under both those criteria.[/QUOTE]
How would they get away from their cars when the road is hot enough to melt their shoes and skin?
[QUOTE=DrLuke;27639329]You know, you can also make thick glass with a rough surface![/QUOTE]
You severly over estimate the strength of glass, and you severly over estimate rough glass.
Here's what will happen, the glass on the surface will fracture, the rough grooves will succumb to the pressure and be smoothed out in days, not weeks, not months but days.
Then the phrase "It's like driving on sheets of glass!" will be uttered across the country as people slide sideways into trees and realise, they WERE driving on sheets of glass.
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Dr Kevorkian;27646677]How would they get away from their cars when the road is hot enough to melt their shoes and skin?[/QUOTE]
I'll now inform on three wondrous abilities of the human body.
Adrenaline: Trust me with that shit flowing in your veins your gonna run like an olympian
Endorphins: They'll block off a lot of the pain for a short time
The mental ability to shut off pain in times of Crisis: If being cooked alive doesn't class as a crisis then slap my arse and call me sally.
Besides the roads will have tiny resistors/heaters in them, not fucking oven elements you tool at best they'll reach 10 degrees so it'll be like walking on wood floors that the sun is shining on.
There's enough salt on the roads to fuel a cinema for 5 years.
[QUOTE=bravehat;27646698]
I'll now inform on three wondrous abilities of the human body.
Adrenaline: Trust me with that shit flowing in your veins your gonna run like an olympian
Endorphins: They'll block off a lot of the pain for a short time
The mental ability to shut off pain in times of Crisis: If being cooked alive doesn't class as a crisis then slap my arse and call me sally.
Besides the roads will have tiny resistors/heaters in them, not fucking oven elements you tool at best they'll reach 10 degrees so it'll be like walking on wood floors that the sun is shining on.[/QUOTE]
You really know how to kill a joke.
Unless you mean 10 degrees Fahrenheit, freezing glass roads, here we come!
[QUOTE=Dr Kevorkian;27646789]You really know how to kill a joke.
Unless you mean 10 degrees Fahrenheit, freezing glass roads, here we come![/QUOTE]
Only retards use fahrenheit, I meant Celsius.
At least we can agree that Celsius is the greater of the two.
Definitely, that or Kelvin, Fahrenheit is just broken.
Well I haven't seen snow in 15 years so I can't exactly relate to any hate to ice.
To me it'd be like a fucking miracle.
why not just put pipes under the pavement and fill them up with hot water.
[QUOTE=Elexar;27647405]why not just put pipes under the pavement and fill them up with hot water.[/QUOTE]
Expensive
I'm telling you, best way to do it is to flash melt the ice, tiny bulbs in a cars headlamps that give off a certain wavelength and frequency of radiation that the ice absorbs as energy to make the ice and snow melt very fast. Aim the bulb a few feet ahead of the car or vehicle and then the car basically drives over a normal road covered in water.
Fit them on all cars as standard and suddenly you don't need ploughs any more, no need to buy hundreds of tonnes of salt.
Money made by me cause I'll hopefully invent and implement the idea, and money saved by councils and people buying salt and putting out ploughs.
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[QUOTE=sharzu;27647594]Expensive[/QUOTE]
Like a glass road isn't? Let alone the developing cost, while we are already able to easily implement piping under the surface.
[QUOTE=bravehat;27647651]I'm telling you, best way to do it is to flash melt the ice, tiny bulbs in a cars headlamps that give off a certain wavelength and frequency of radiation that the ice absorbs as energy to make the ice and snow melt very fast. Aim the bulb a few feet ahead of the car or vehicle and then the car basically drives over a normal road covered in water.
Fit them on all cars as standard and suddenly you don't need ploughs any more, no need to buy hundreds of tonnes of salt.
Money made by me cause I'll hopefully invent and implement the idea, and money saved by councils and people buying salt and putting out ploughs.
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There are other cars and people in front of you. Will they burn to death or die a slow death by radiation?
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Elexar;27647701]Like a glass road isn't? Let alone the developing cost, while we are already able to easily implement piping under the surface.[/QUOTE]
I never talked about glass roads, but if you think about long terms... Water is not free. Every second means money. Glass road is 1 time pay and there is materials to make them.
Water is not infinite and by time it gets more and more expensive. The pipes will get damaged by time and needs to be fixed. Alot of pipes will freeze even though they are hot. Already happened a million times here in Finland.
[QUOTE=sharzu;27647734]There are other cars and people in front of you. Will they burn to death or die a slow death by radiation?
[editline]25th January 2011[/editline]
I never talked about glass roads, but if you think about long terms... Water is not free. Every second means money. Glass road is 1 time pay and there is materials to make them.
Water is not infinite and by time it gets more and more expensive. The pipes will get damaged by time and needs to be fixed. Alot of pipes will freeze even though they are hot. Already happened a million times here in Finland.[/QUOTE]
Nice to see people understand radiation.
It would be a specific wavelength of IR that would cause a reaction from water and energise the atom.
That's all, same principle as a laser but without the massive lasing medium.
The car and people wouldn't even feel it, perhaps a minor increase in heat at absolute worst.
Seriously people have to stop associating radiation with evil harmful shit, we fucking see radiation, that's all light is and that's all I'd be using, a few wavelengths of heat/Infra red radiation.
Fuck.
[QUOTE=bravehat;27647651]I'm telling you, best way to do it is to flash melt the ice, tiny bulbs in a cars headlamps that give off a certain wavelength and frequency of radiation that the ice absorbs as energy to make the ice and snow melt very fast. Aim the bulb a few feet ahead of the car or vehicle and then the car basically drives over a normal road covered in water.
Fit them on all cars as standard and suddenly you don't need ploughs any more, no need to buy hundreds of tonnes of salt.
Money made by me cause I'll hopefully invent and implement the idea, and money saved by councils and people buying salt and putting out ploughs.
:page3: :pcgaming:[/QUOTE]
Have fun with roads being even more fucked up than they are now. Large changes in temperature are essentially the most damaging things to roads during winter.
You see it in Europe everywhere right now. Even some recently repaired roads now have absolutely massive holes in them, which comes from expanding ice. You either need to clear the snow away, or keep it molten indefinitely, or have a surface that is resistant to this ice expansion.
[QUOTE=Elexar;27647701]Like a glass road isn't? Let alone the developing cost, while we are already able to easily implement piping under the surface.[/QUOTE]
Water is incredibly difficult to heat up.
It seems common to us to heat up water, as we do it all the time, but the amount of energy required to heat water is vast. Heating water under countless miles of roads would be far beyond the current power production capabilities of the nation.
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