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Old 09-14-2010, 10:56 AM
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Default Snow and salt?

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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1 View Post
$35 trillion would be the estimated cost.

That is based on a 12′x12′ solar panel costing $7000 and using 5 billion of these roadway panels to cover the millions of miles of roadways, parking lots and driveways in the US and the cost of jackhammering the current roadway system.
It is an interesting idea but I also wonder how they would do in snow and salt.