[quote][quote]This is stupidly impractical.[/quote] I would love to hear why you think this is true?[/quote]1. The expenses. It's already expensive to construct a road made out of asphalt. Normal solar panels are also incredibly expensive. Coupling these two together, it's easy to see how the cost will quickly get out of hand. On top of this, the project isn't even worth it, as I will explain later. 2. The inconveniences. It's already a massive inconvenience to repair or update just a portion of a road. Now imagine tearing apart an entire road. It would be a nightmare. 3. The maintenance. It doesn't matter how durable these panels are--run over anything more complex than gravel or dirt with thousands of pounds each day and it will break. Undoubtably, these panels would constantly break both physically and electronically. It wouldn't surprise me if each road would have a completely new set of tiles every couple of years from constant replacement. And keep in mind that these things are expensive. 4. The benefits aren't worth it. If you're dealing with areas where the road needs to be heated due to snowfall or regularly floods and needs runoff options, you're already in a bad place for solar panels. In order for solar panels to be even somewhat useful, they need to be exposed to constant sunlight. Placing them in areas that experience frequent precipitation usually don't get enough light to make their installation worth it. It would be both cheaper and equally efficient (which is still very inefficient and expensive) to just redesign roads that prevent ice formation and incorporate drainage systems--with the addition of solar farms elsewhere. 5. There's a good chance that it's a scam. With the increasingly large number of Kickstarter projects promising "the next stage of human evolution," such as [url=http://pando.com/2014/05/19/one-month-after-getting-its-million-dollars-healbes-scampaign-keeps-on-stacking-up-broken-promises/]Healbe[/url], only to be revealed as scams, we should stop being so naive when it comes to ambitious projects. This is one of them--the website is amateurish, its costs are unlisted, and the actual technology is vague. Be wary.