MEP EP#259: Troncrete

MEP EP#259: Troncrete
Parker

Your C@$% Is Mine Now

We actually brought up the security report on this device back in Oct 2020 on episode MEP 245: K-factoring A Gumbo
Qiui, the China-based manufacturer of the device, which is aptly called Cellmate, did not respond to a request for comment

Stephen

Solar Freaking Roadways!

First talked about on MEP EP1…

“France building a huge solar roadway. This again?”

Solar Roadway
Timeline

2006 solar roadways is founded
2009 - 100k small business innovation grant from USDOT
2011 - 750k small business innovation grant from USDOT to make small “parking lot”

This is what shows up in all the videos.

2014 Indigogo campaign raises 2.2mil - the highest at the time
2016 given an additional 750k by USDOT
2016 Jeff Jones Town Square

30 panels
Supposed 60k install cost
Wiki - .25kW per day
Typical Home install 1.45kW/day
According to thunderF00T ⅓rd of the energy is consumed by the LEDs and the remainder is in heat.

2016 France installs Wattway

5.2 million to build expected 767 kwh per day.
$20/ kwh 13x the cost of rooftop installation. Only produced 409kwh/day

2020 December USA gets its first real solar road! Woohoo!

City of Peachtree Corners in Gwinnett County, Georgia
About the size of a typical Rooftop install but less than half as efficient

4 Solar roadways we can find in the world… only 1 has been declared a success.

Dutch bike path
70-metre test bike path generating 3,000 kWh

Looks to be a meter wide. 70 sq meters or ~760 sq ft
Average house only needs ~300 sq ft of solar panels on a roof....