@garden of eden I wasn't being serious lol. Plastic roads seem like a great alternative to tarmac roads and I hope that investors will see it the same way.
Flying cars has always been and will continue to be a very bad idea that the world does not need. The last thing we need is traffic in the skies and mid-air collisions, people have enough trouble with cars on the ground already!!!!!!
I like the idea of plastic roads, but on the other hand I also have doubts about them when they wear down and they release super small particles of plastic into the nature around them. Plastics could accumulate up the food chain to bigger animals and possibly even to humans if the animals are hunted for meat. Then again this applies to every kind of plastics dumped in to the nature so it's not a new problem. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Non-degrading, non-renewable plastics are just a shit tier material with any scope longer 5 years. And if you strip these attributes, you also stripped all benefits.
If i remember it correctly the road will be mostly traditional materials with some plastic mixed in. There is just so many problems like cost and the sheer amount of plastic needed, it's just not feasible. The solar roadway is just a joke at this point. Thunderfoot here on RUclips has made some videos on it maybe check them out if you have time.
Tbh it would probably be beneficial for your community to just skip regular roads and choose these solutions instead. Especially since they will last longer and reduce cost, which is beneficial for developing countries with limited monetary resources.
That's true. For example, in some parts of Africa the contries skipped the infrastructure for telephone cable and jump right into cellular data. There's not an exact step by step guided implementation of tech in sub developed or development countries
Unfortunately for all of you the entire concept of plastic/solar roads has been debunked and disregarded years ago. Plastic has a low coefficient of friction that is far below what is needed to stop a high speed semi truck from crashing into your 1999 Honda Civic
Using waste plastic to reinforce roads? Good idea. Using purely plastic roads? Probably good for bike paths or pedestrian only paths but heavy vehicles will definitely cause problems Solar roadways? No. Just no.
@@aggressivetomate1393 the project already failed, it start breaking up under the usage and power efficiency was terrible as dirty and tree leaves cover the road blocking sunlight. Something that engineers who invent this took under the consideration when calculating efficiency. I saw other documentary a exactly bout this somewhere on RUclips.
Reinforcing roads with plastic just creates microplastics. And will cause the road to disintegrate faster. The sun is going to break down the plastic mixed in and heat will cause it to melt and expand and 5x the rate of the surrounding asphalt. Creating cracks for water to seep in a freeze. Plastic roads in any form isn't a good idea.
@@aggressivetomate1393 for one, roads get dirty, which blocks the panels, you'll have things traveling over it blocking the panels, shadows of houses, buildings, trees, blocking the panels, things crash, high speeds,quick stops all wearing away at it. You can't adjust it all, etc. The solar road way people put panels on the sidewalk and they were godful and did almost nothing and broke all the time.
That is correct. Solar roadways was a spectacular failure, and highlighted only how viral videos and hype doesn't allow bypassing engineering and common sense.
Correct. A RUclipsr by the name of ThunderF00t did an awesome job debunking it from the time it the idea was shared as a viral video to a year after the prototype was installed in somewhere cars can’t drive and the POS was 90% broken. He also did a video on the modular plastic road
*As much as i like the concept. It wouldn’t work in real life, for multiple reasons.* 1. *Problems with replacement of slabs* If you decide to put cables and such in, how would you be able to replace a pannel. (I self thought of a sort of door thingy at the bottom but that would be really impractical and expensive) 2. *Slabs coming loose with traffic* (Remember the video shows no way of connecting the tiles to the ground other than gravity) If you decide not to put cables in, you have a great danger of these coming out of the ground when a car brakes at the end of a tile, a tile would weigh about 500 kilos, (roughly 1100 lbs(i believe). A car could lift these tiles up. This would put the driver in great danger. And of the road is busy, the car(s) behind would need to break quickly enough to not crash in a sloped wall but also slow enough to not have the same happen to them. I could talk longer about this but the point is obvious. 3. *No grip*. Plastic has terrible grip, you can make it grippy but than you’d need a uneven surface which greatly increases the chance of little plastic pieces to break off and cause plastic pollution. ( which would render the product absolutely useless because it’s their main selling point). 4. *Cost*. Recycled plastic cost over 2 times as much as asphalt. Ps. Part of my arguments where formed by the video named “Plastic roads busted” from the creator thunderr00t. And part of my arguments where an addition to his. If you’ve read this far, thanks for sticking with me. Bye🙃
I think the people creating these innovative positive ideas are way more qualified and have put much more thought into the pros and cons of this kind of construction than you could ever have . I am sure they have worked out how to deal with most of the cons about these kinds of road construction and have weighed up if its a sustainable ethical profitable and worth perusing , also people with creative minds and engineering, chemistry, physics degrees etc and other learner ed talents and skills are problem solvers doing something positive unlike you sitting back unqualified blabbing on being negative about something you have hardly any info about , I wonder have you ever been accused of talking before thinking , you might want to ponder that one next time . anyway all the potential problems you sighted can be solved with some creative thought . problems are not problems , they are just things waiting to be solved
@@pungabunga9373 I don't want to talk about plastic roads, since I don't know much about them. But I do know that solarpanels in roads is crap and unsafe. Just for example, USA's Solar Roadways company and their test roadway from solar panels ended up in complete failure. Not only was it extremely reflective to sunlight, it's LED's were almost not possible to notice unless during night and the promised heat resistance towards snow wasn't there. Hell, the panels had to be replaced multiple times because of human, feet traffic. They couldn't handle people walking on them, much less cars driving on them. As for cost of them coming back from the solar energy they generate? They had a public website where you could see how much they generate - in most cases it wasn't even a few cents a day. And that's if they even did generate any energy. Total waste of money from people that donated to them and the taxpayers money that the gov gave them. Just a big scam.
1. Seems like something that could easily be overcome. Also this system is an advantage to the new road system that would've never been possible with the old one. 2. Pieces comming up seems like an engineering thing that neither you nor I could say anything about bases just on the simple animation showed. 3. How is plastic nog grippy? I mean, yeah it is probably less grippy than asfalt, but it is pretty grippy. There are many ways of improving the grip with coatings instead of going for a rougher surface as you suggested. (Which would indeed create a risk of plastic pollution and also would make it noisier). 4. They are twice as expensive but last 3 times as long. Seems like the value proposition is not the issue here. What I am expecting would be the issue is that new plastic is cheaper than recycled plastic. This company is going to put in a lot of R&D only for a different company to do the same thing with new plastic for cheaper...
So a few things from my own experience as a civil engineer and working for road building firms. Few people actually realize how productive modern paving actually is. A crew with a single highway paver can easily place 1,000 - 1,200 tons of black top in a single shift. Also black top is already one of the most recycled materials earth. Well over 90% of all HMA gets recycled. Also while I've obviously never placed prefabricated plastic roads or solar roadways I have used precast concrete panels for repairs to PCC pavement before. and a few things people dont always consider as part of the process. One, you need to do a very precise survey of the road before you make the panels. You need to account for any curves, super elevation, and changes to the crown and then build custom molds for each piece so that they will fit together perfectly and still have the correct geometry. The other thing is that you need to very carefully prepare the subbase of the road before placing the panels because any bumps or unevenness will prevent the panel from fitting properly. When doing precast concrete panels after we dug out the old concrete we were replacing we had to lay down a layer of fine sand which we then graded with a laser level to get it in tolerance. We then placed the panel and pumped grout through special ports in the panel to fill any potential voids beneath it and make sure it was fully locked in place. Panels can be a good repair system but they are far to slow and tedious of a way to construct whole roads compared to existing methods. Also for the whole putting utilities inside the road panels I was left wondering how you where then supposed to repair or replace sections of the road without also ripping out and breaking the utilities. Lastly, the typical U.S. Interstate is made out of concrete 1 foot thick and sit directly on a well compacted subbase. I very skeptical of how what appears to be a couple of inches of plastic with a big hollow space behind it has the same durability as a foot of concrete.
No matter if you pour and road a road on or apply decking, the most important part of a road is how it's road bed is engineered for the soil it runs through. A road ultimately lasts or fails by its road bed. Ground soil conditions must be carefully assessed to see if it warrants stabilization using sand bore piling or geomat stabilization before bedding if the soil is spongy or silty clay. Extreme seasonal changes to the undersoil must also be factored in to avoid road heave, pavement buckling, pothole lines and washout.
They're yet another magic road scam: ruclips.net/video/Sj_FZduqblo/видео.html B1M doesn't think critically about some stuff (they've also fallen for the hyperloop nonsense).
@@maxfotoalbum243 Which is exactly why these roads still haven't been built. Because plastic melts in the heat and it also expands. 2 things your road should minimally do. There is also not enough recyclable plastic in the world to make many roads. Which is why we use asphalt. Its cheap and plentiful. Its rocks, dirt and bitumen. Bitumen is a byproduct of creating gasoline from crude oil. So its also keeping that out of the environment. And when a road gets torn up, the old asphalt is just reheated and melted back into the new road.
@@StrangerHappened I guess "physically impossible" is an imprecise term. What I really meant to say is, you can build it, you can install it, you can use it, but it will fail spectacularly and in an epic and dangerous way. Remember, "solar freakin' roadways" was also installed and their prototype is actually in a fully working location too, but its sad and proves it wouldn't serve any purpose in practice.
It would be nice to have roads be build faster. I-4 through Orlando and Tampa has been under construction my entire life. Even maybe a temporary road that can be placed and picked back up later after they are finished with the main road.
problem is the road consturctin is a lot more than just putting some black goo on the ground most of the time spent is spent creating a foundation for the actual road surface weird how a construction channel didnt realize that
Its because these crews are paid regardless of whether they do any work or not. Unions are crazy, workers only work if the weather is right, 60-80 degrees, no rain.
oh my how can anyone be this delusional... my leg u should wake up and realize how important unions and labor laws are take a look at europe where unions are the norm and people fight for their right to fair wages and hours and still maintain a higher standard of living than the US u should turn off CNN and listen to unbiased media
Aksel Hansen lots of the time is spent with red tape and health and safety. The biggest thing is organising services and doing pipe work. Prefabricated roads will never be faster than the traditional methods
@@Ricardo-gf7ts 24.75 Burgers Also, no worries, because that idea is never gonna happen. Also, using recyclable plastic into roads is a waste of plastic (not even mentioning the solar roads, which have been debunked to hell and back)
@Mulph bro chill its not that serious and also every language has its own variations and dialects so assuming there is only one kind of english is also quite ignorant
@Mulph Interesting, you're insulting him, but you're also wrong. Asphalt is not pronounced, ash-felt in Britain, a quick Google search would show you this. Yes, the pronunciation differs across America and Britain, however this narrator is making up his own pronunciation, or lending more popularity to a mispronounciation. Britain: As-felt America: As-fault
the project already failed, it start breaking up under the usage and power efficiency was terrible as dirty and tree leaves cover the road blocking sunlight. Something that engineers who invent this took under the consideration when calculating efficiency. I saw other documentary a exactly bout this somewhere on RUclips.
I like how there are obviously tons of people who watch thunderfoot, and they probably understand that others are watching him too, but no one actually mentions him
2:00 10 tons of asphalt per kilometer... assuming 6 meter width for two lanes, that's only 1.5 kg/sqm. Real-world figures start at 100 kg/sqm (and that's for a thin layer more suitable to bicycles than real vehicles).
While I honestly impressed with all these projects, I think most of the benefits are hypothetical. Sure, it's possible to built all of these. But it's just not practical
Yeah i was thinking the same thing but the way I see it, most new things are not going to be immediately economical but with scale growth and new construction methodology it might one day be more impractically to not switch.
@@slevinshafel9395 Plastic road -> We already have microplastics concern, so.. Modular road -> What if we need to change cable etc. that usually come in one long piece? Adding modularity will complicate things more Solar road -> most of them are fragile. Also shadow from vehicles especially in busy roads. Well.. maybe those will be different in the future though
@@slevinshafel9395 a fully plastic road would not be able to hold its weight, the prefab plastic roads use fiberglass reinforcement making the un recycleable, while asphalt roadways are fully recyclable, and have no concern for leeching microplastics, another issue is heat expansion, plastic has poor heat expansion properties.
@@adrianmiller103 you can only say that with good ideas. Most of these are going to be replaced with more ecinomical and smarter ideas over time. Most of these are just wanna be designers that want to be different. They are just smashing to "modern" things together and making something that is pointless. Like solar road ways. The dumbest thing ever. Imaginable.
i wouldnt trust the word of somebody who calls themselves an "anti sjw" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean, opposes black lives matter, and so on and so forth. that entire community of youtubers is a toxic cesspool whose only contribution is the incredibly stupid idea that white cis men are somehow oppressed by powerless minoritys, because those are getting some visual representation in pop culture.
@@jenshep1720 i wouldnt mix my opinion someones scientific analysis based on my "feelings" about his opinion on cultural matters. he might be the biggest douche (i dont know), but that doesnt render his knowledge worthless
@@dimosk7389 his opinion on cultural matters is exactly what renders his knowledge worthless. why should i trust a guy to respect the science of one thing if he cant accept on another matter hats simply politically inconvenient for him? if he rejects facts about one group of things, i dont trust his approach to facts on anything else either. he has an interest in opposing progressive ideas to keep his channel going alone.
@@dimosk7389 like the fact that blm are fighting for their civil rights, against systemic racism, because they are actively being discriminated against. im not gonna debate this with you. you can accept it or not, i dont really care. your opinion is irrelevant, its fact whether you believe it or not, and i dont need to listen to a sranger on the internet defend some anti science prick with a business built on lying to his viewers.
thats the exact same thought i had. and yet they never included the disadvantages of plastic roads but they said about the disadvantages of normal roads
Exactly. Also when the road gets replaces you cannot separate the plastic from the rest of the material, so you can't dispose it like you normally would or recycle it
The road will slowly erode and release the plastics back into the environment. Leo you're right. These plastics will be micro micro plastics and might even do more damage.
So if I throw a plastic bottle into the ocean that's bad, but it I throw a recycled plastic bottle into the ocean that's fine? There's little point in recycling plastic if it's going to be used in contexts where it will just be released into the environment anyways, especially when it will be through wear and tear that will convert it directly into microplastics. One major objective of recycling is to reduce the amount of microplastics released into the environment, so this is completely counter-productive.
I can't understand the likes of downvoters. It's time we got rid of the plastic in the oceans. I'be been thinking about all these things for years and am delighted to see this finally being put to work.
My respect for this channel has just plummeted after seeing this shit. Solar roadways have been debunked over and over and those plastic roads shown would not carry a fully laden truck. The longevity estimates are completely made up.
Thanks for your Videos i like them : ) (Solar Roads) that is the Worst place to have a Solar, real bad angel + all the scratch, so you will loss so much sun light + the most expensive place to install it
Unfortunately the project already failed, it start breaking up under the usage and power efficiency was terrible as dirty and tree leaves cover the road blocking sunlight. Something that engineers who invent this took under the consideration when calculating efficiency. I saw other documentary a exactly bout this somewhere on RUclips.
I really wish you didn't lump these 3 ideas in the one video, the first one seems fairly reasonable but the other two scream of short-sightedness on behalf of the creators.
In Romania they don’t even put the whole 10 cm of asphalt that they are supposed. They put like 4cm and say they put 10cm and they keep the money for the rest of 6cm for themselves. With other words: they steal. Who are they? Mostly private companies owned by members of the same city hall that hires the company.
Adding plastic to the road surface: Neat but saying it will prevent plastic particles from reaching the ocean is short sighted. The plastic, just like the road surface, is prone to erosion, wear and tear. Plastic particles will come lose and tires will spread them out, they will reach water bodies in time… it might actually be the highway to micro plastic in our food chain... Prefabricated plastic road: Because replacing a damaged road segment is so much faster and cheaper than filling a pot hole… if your town, state (whatever) fails to fill pot holes in time do you really think they will be able to repair damaged segments in time? Stop doing drugs. Solar road ways: Proven to be the most ineffective way to utilize solar power in the world and a colossal waste of money. Ask the French, the just build a road costing millions that can barely charge a AAA-accumulator… but who cares it is just tax money.
it's such a tiny amount though, did you even listen at all? 3-10 kg per tonne of asphalt. that means 0.3 - 1% is plastic and the rest is asphalt. plus they are said to last 10 times longer, which is a absurd amount of extra lifespan for roads. even if it's mostly false say 2 times longer that's MASSIVE. roads roughly speaking start to crack within 5 years and are bumpy as hell within 10-15 and REALLY need to be replaced by the 20 year mark. depending on traffic ofc. more traffic the more wear and tear done to the road and thus shorter lifespan of the road. we are talking about 3-10kg per tonne of asphalt released in particle sized bits over 30-40 years. that's if it only extends the life of asphalt by 2x, if it's 10 times then it would be over a 150-200 year range. if at 2x extended life that's only 75 - 100 to 250 - 333 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in a 1 km stretch of road 750 - 1000 to 2,500 - 3,333 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 2 - 2.7 to 6.8 - 9.1 grams of plastic each day will be released. it's such a tiny amount even though we are only at 2x life. if at 10x extended life that's 15 - 20 to 50 - 66 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in in a 1 km stretch of road 150 - 200 to 500 to 666 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 0.41 - 0.58 to 1.37 - 1.82 grams of plastic each day will be released. this assumes the entire road will be completely turned to dust at the end of it's lifetime which never happens so realisticly it would be closer to 20-30% of those numbers MAYBE and that's pushing it honestly. really most of the surface of the asphalt is intact when they tear it up and replace it. 5-10% is a better number which makes the release of plastic so tiny that it's not even something to think about it.
2:53 i like that one. look the most efficient and easy to replacement. but we must see the coeficient of friction if is high enoght to stop the car more quickly.
3:07 Im a very very tidy person, and when I think of the mess of cables, pipes etc. in our earth and how difficult it is to get to know where a pipe or a cable is placed I get sick. This method would solve it: You always know, where everything is, you can upgrade internet pretty fast and cheap as well.... There are so many benefits of this method of building a road!
I like how no one is mentioning the problem of accessing the pipes and cables inside the road. Or like, how you would replace a damaged section without cutting the utilities.
@@pwnmeisterage it isn't but, it doesn't change the fact that the roads (few roads) in Chandigarh are actually made using plastics. You're just salty that a less developed nation is kinda already doing it when your developed nation is catching up. Also, its not just in Chandigarh, there are many cities in India which uses plastic in their roads and its been in used for a decade now. Although the risk of plastic erosion and mixing in ground water is still not fully studied.
Hollow roads - the perfect place for rats to live and eat the pipes and cables. Solar roads - the most pointless idea ever created. Solar panels needs to be pointed towards the sun, to be efficient.
Wait wait wait, the roads double as a rat habitat? And they have an all-you-can-eat plastic buffet? *ENVIRONMENTALISM INTENSIFIES* Seriously though, as bad as a rat infestation sounds, their combined body heat might just be enough to melt snow and ice. That would solve solar roadways' issue with ice and snow forming on the panels in the winter and blocking sunlight. Still a monumentally stupid idea.
Modular Roads sound good but once services are threaded through, and one goes faulty, how do you lift the module without disconnecting all the other services? It would be a logistical nightmare!
Steve Green Brocken roads are a symptom of a broken government system. Some countries have good roads, countries with low tax and large inequality have bad roads.
Amazing! Solar roads and recycled plastic! The world is becoming more and more efficient and sustainable! We are proud to be a part of those developments!
3:40 ah yes, putting solar panels, that are known to be fragile and won’t work when dirty, directly under heavy trucks and dirty wheels. Perfectly sound idea.
Plastic roads What about erosion? When the plastic bits start to erode where will they end up? Will they get carried off by rain water into rivers and streams and eventually the ocean? If so, how is this better for the environment?
Not a good idea. We already run the risk of plastic micro particles building up to dangerous levels within the worlds eco systems, and you think adding plastic to the largest, most frequently damaged & worn down, man made system on the planet will solve anything in the long run?
it's such a tiny amount though, did you even listen at all? 3-10 kg per tonne of asphalt. that means 0.3 - 1% is plastic and the rest is asphalt. plus they are said to last 10 times longer, which is a absurd amount of extra lifespan for roads. even if it's mostly false say 2 times longer that's MASSIVE. roads roughly speaking start to crack within 5 years and are bumpy as hell within 10-15 and REALLY need to be replaced by the 20 year mark. depending on traffic ofc. more traffic the more wear and tear done to the road and thus shorter lifespan of the road. we are talking about 3-10kg per tonne of asphalt released in particle sized bits over 30-40 years. that's if it only extends the life of asphalt by 2x, if it's 10 times then it would be over a 150-200 year range. if at 2x extended life that's only 75 - 100 to 250 - 333 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in a 1 km stretch of road 750 - 1000 to 2,500 - 3,333 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 2 - 2.7 to 6.8 - 9.1 grams of plastic each day will be released. it's such a tiny amount even though we are only at 2x life. if at 10x extended life that's 15 - 20 to 50 - 66 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in in a 1 km stretch of road 150 - 200 to 500 to 666 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 0.41 - 0.58 to 1.37 - 1.82 grams of plastic each day will be released. this assumes the entire road will be completely turned to dust at the end of it's lifetime which never happens so realisticly it would be closer to 20-30% of those numbers MAYBE and that's pushing it honestly. really most of the surface of the asphalt is intact when they tear it up and replace it. 5-10% is a better number which makes the release of plastic so tiny that it's not even something to think about it.
Asphalt is already super recyclable so this kinda a situation of if its not broken why fix it. People are trying to find solutions to stuff that isn’t a problem
Many valid concerns raised about putting plastics in roads being raised in the comments. I am intrigued by the modular prefab idea though. Lately I've been obsessed with the idea of heated roads for melting snow and ice. Removes need for plows and damaging salt, and would (I think) all but eliminate potholes. Seems like a worthwhile infrastructure project for northern climates. Maybe that type of thing would work well with the modular roads idea (whether they integrate plastic or not)
John Guo good point. Maybe the upper part could detach from the lower with the pipes in it. It seems like a good idea at first because you could prefab pieces and keep them stockpiled, but we’d have to rework how we do roads, for sure
it’d be nice, but charging a battery that size, even with a cord, is super slow, but if it was wireless, it’d be so slow, you probably wouldn’t be able to notice it.
All these innovations are just wonderful, but I am old, so are my friends - we probably cannot get to see all of them in use in our life times... (sigh)
🤔 but this is the nature of the world, it works in cycles. Nothing is completely gone, it just goes round again, some things take longer then others but all will be used again.
until u think about all of these solutions and realize how flawed they are the only idea that makes sense is they guy putting plastic in regular black top
The types of plastic that are durable enough to mimic asphalt are not recyclable unfortunately. Asphalt is recyclable. Also, solar road's are very inefficient for power production as panels gain 30-50% more power when they're pointing towards the sun rather than laid flat. That's why panels on rooftops are so great. Not to mention the inefficiencies from putting the panel under textured glass...
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1970: Everyone will be using flying cars by 2020
2020: Plastic roads
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Sometime
Expectations fails to meet the reality
This happens only in the case of future
@garden of eden I wasn't being serious lol. Plastic roads seem like a great alternative to tarmac roads and I hope that investors will see it the same way.
Umm....some of us have been waiting for flying cars since the fifties!
Flying cars has always been and will continue to be a very bad idea that the world does not need. The last thing we need is traffic in the skies and mid-air collisions, people have enough trouble with cars on the ground already!!!!!!
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I like the idea of plastic roads, but on the other hand I also have doubts about them when they wear down and they release super small particles of plastic into the nature around them. Plastics could accumulate up the food chain to bigger animals and possibly even to humans if the animals are hunted for meat. Then again this applies to every kind of plastics dumped in to the nature so it's not a new problem. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
Yep. My thoughts exactly. What happens when plastic roads wear off?
Most of this is just marketing BS, solarroadways and plasticroad have been debunked years ago.
@@illuminatuz1 agree wonder how the friction co effiecent compares to traditional roads... slippery when wet...
Non-degrading, non-renewable plastics are just a shit tier material with any scope longer 5 years.
And if you strip these attributes, you also stripped all benefits.
If i remember it correctly the road will be mostly traditional materials with some plastic mixed in. There is just so many problems like cost and the sheer amount of plastic needed, it's just not feasible. The solar roadway is just a joke at this point. Thunderfoot here on RUclips has made some videos on it maybe check them out if you have time.
0:47 - that guy is doing absolutely no work...
Hagahaha! He's working very hard, he's making sure the 'ashfelt' is being evenly distributed by managing it with his ocular sensory perception.
in Arizona it takes 5 state workers to do that kind of work.... and a cop to direct traffic!
manualLaborer …but he’s doing it very skilfully
But it's plastic
Thats it! You are hired as our new supervisor!
3:18 "You could see pre fabricated plastic roads on streets near you in near future".LOL I am from India, let me see regular roads first .
Tbh it would probably be beneficial for your community to just skip regular roads and choose these solutions instead. Especially since they will last longer and reduce cost, which is beneficial for developing countries with limited monetary resources.
That's true. For example, in some parts of Africa the contries skipped the infrastructure for telephone cable and jump right into cellular data. There's not an exact step by step guided implementation of tech in sub developed or development countries
Exactly my thoughts (from Russia).
Unfortunately for all of you the entire concept of plastic/solar roads has been debunked and disregarded years ago. Plastic has a low coefficient of friction that is far below what is needed to stop a high speed semi truck from crashing into your 1999 Honda Civic
Raghav Agarwal 😂👍
Some how asphalt turned into “ ash felt “
Because people are afraid RUclips will hear ASS fault.
@@Gr3nadgr3gory hahaha
The illiteracy from the progressive public schools systems.
american moment
@@videolabguy Much better in Arkansas, right?
Using waste plastic to reinforce roads? Good idea.
Using purely plastic roads? Probably good for bike paths or pedestrian only paths but heavy vehicles will definitely cause problems
Solar roadways? No. Just no.
why no solar?
@@aggressivetomate1393 the project already failed, it start breaking up under the usage and power efficiency was terrible as dirty and tree leaves cover the road blocking sunlight. Something that engineers who invent this took under the consideration when calculating efficiency.
I saw other documentary a exactly bout this somewhere on RUclips.
Reinforcing roads with plastic just creates microplastics. And will cause the road to disintegrate faster. The sun is going to break down the plastic mixed in and heat will cause it to melt and expand and 5x the rate of the surrounding asphalt. Creating cracks for water to seep in a freeze. Plastic roads in any form isn't a good idea.
@@aggressivetomate1393 for one, roads get dirty, which blocks the panels, you'll have things traveling over it blocking the panels, shadows of houses, buildings, trees, blocking the panels, things crash, high speeds,quick stops all wearing away at it. You can't adjust it all, etc.
The solar road way people put panels on the sidewalk and they were godful and did almost nothing and broke all the time.
nah plastic is strong enough (with proper structure) to keep even heavy vehicles... but I suppose until hot sunny day...
3:23 I thought that was DEBUNKED ages ago, and has been proven to not work or be completely inefficient.
That is correct. Solar roadways was a spectacular failure, and highlighted only how viral videos and hype doesn't allow bypassing engineering and common sense.
Yep. B1M proves once again that all he does is google some footage and read the spec sheets. Great "journalism" lol
Road to Reality
what doesn't work today could work in the future. That is usually how technology advances.
Correct. A RUclipsr by the name of ThunderF00t did an awesome job debunking it from the time it the idea was shared as a viral video to a year after the prototype was installed in somewhere cars can’t drive and the POS was 90% broken. He also did a video on the modular plastic road
We needs roads that charge electric cars automatically. That is the future.
That's idea is just like people talking about flying cars
kinetic energy via friction, different material tires, rails systems
So funny, it be like toy electric circuit racing track . So means they going put 2 big pins under the car like a toy car is going to run on a circuit
that would make free of charge electricity haha just by paying taxes
we need to get rid of cars
*As much as i like the concept. It wouldn’t work in real life, for multiple reasons.*
1. *Problems with replacement of slabs* If you decide to put cables and such in, how would you be able to replace a pannel. (I self thought of a sort of door thingy at the bottom but that would be really impractical and expensive)
2. *Slabs coming loose with traffic* (Remember the video shows no way of connecting the tiles to the ground other than gravity) If you decide not to put cables in, you have a great danger of these coming out of the ground when a car brakes at the end of a tile, a tile would weigh about 500 kilos, (roughly 1100 lbs(i believe). A car could lift these tiles up. This would put the driver in great danger. And of the road is busy, the car(s) behind would need to break quickly enough to not crash in a sloped wall but also slow enough to not have the same happen to them. I could talk longer about this but the point is obvious.
3. *No grip*. Plastic has terrible grip, you can make it grippy but than you’d need a uneven surface which greatly increases the chance of little plastic pieces to break off and cause plastic pollution. ( which would render the product absolutely useless because it’s their main selling point).
4. *Cost*. Recycled plastic cost over 2 times as much as asphalt.
Ps. Part of my arguments where formed by the video named “Plastic roads busted” from the creator thunderr00t. And part of my arguments where an addition to his.
If you’ve read this far, thanks for sticking with me.
Bye🙃
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You sir are correct
I think the people creating these innovative positive ideas are way more qualified and have put much more thought into the pros and cons of this kind of construction than you could ever have . I am sure they have worked out how to deal with most of the cons about these kinds of road construction and have weighed up if its a sustainable ethical profitable and worth perusing , also people with creative minds and engineering, chemistry, physics degrees etc and other learner ed talents and skills are problem solvers doing something positive unlike you sitting back unqualified blabbing on being negative about something you have hardly any info about ,
I wonder have you ever been accused of talking before thinking , you might want to ponder that one next time
. anyway all the potential problems you sighted can be solved with some creative thought . problems are not problems , they are just things waiting to be solved
@@pungabunga9373 I don't want to talk about plastic roads, since I don't know much about them.
But I do know that solarpanels in roads is crap and unsafe. Just for example, USA's Solar Roadways company and their test roadway from solar panels ended up in complete failure. Not only was it extremely reflective to sunlight, it's LED's were almost not possible to notice unless during night and the promised heat resistance towards snow wasn't there.
Hell, the panels had to be replaced multiple times because of human, feet traffic. They couldn't handle people walking on them, much less cars driving on them. As for cost of them coming back from the solar energy they generate? They had a public website where you could see how much they generate - in most cases it wasn't even a few cents a day. And that's if they even did generate any energy.
Total waste of money from people that donated to them and the taxpayers money that the gov gave them. Just a big scam.
1. Seems like something that could easily be overcome. Also this system is an advantage to the new road system that would've never been possible with the old one.
2. Pieces comming up seems like an engineering thing that neither you nor I could say anything about bases just on the simple animation showed.
3. How is plastic nog grippy? I mean, yeah it is probably less grippy than asfalt, but it is pretty grippy. There are many ways of improving the grip with coatings instead of going for a rougher surface as you suggested. (Which would indeed create a risk of plastic pollution and also would make it noisier).
4. They are twice as expensive but last 3 times as long. Seems like the value proposition is not the issue here.
What I am expecting would be the issue is that new plastic is cheaper than recycled plastic. This company is going to put in a lot of R&D only for a different company to do the same thing with new plastic for cheaper...
2:57 Apparently these new roads allow your vehicle to levitate over empty space
LOL laughed so hard
it's a new type of road - and invisible one
Does that mean that we have flying cars :o
@[S1D32] 葉鎧鋒 YIP HOI FUNG yeah😅
haha i'm on dark mode u can't fool me
So a few things from my own experience as a civil engineer and working for road building firms. Few people actually realize how productive modern paving actually is. A crew with a single highway paver can easily place 1,000 - 1,200 tons of black top in a single shift. Also black top is already one of the most recycled materials earth. Well over 90% of all HMA gets recycled.
Also while I've obviously never placed prefabricated plastic roads or solar roadways I have used precast concrete panels for repairs to PCC pavement before. and a few things people dont always consider as part of the process. One, you need to do a very precise survey of the road before you make the panels. You need to account for any curves, super elevation, and changes to the crown and then build custom molds for each piece so that they will fit together perfectly and still have the correct geometry. The other thing is that you need to very carefully prepare the subbase of the road before placing the panels because any bumps or unevenness will prevent the panel from fitting properly. When doing precast concrete panels after we dug out the old concrete we were replacing we had to lay down a layer of fine sand which we then graded with a laser level to get it in tolerance. We then placed the panel and pumped grout through special ports in the panel to fill any potential voids beneath it and make sure it was fully locked in place.
Panels can be a good repair system but they are far to slow and tedious of a way to construct whole roads compared to existing methods. Also for the whole putting utilities inside the road panels I was left wondering how you where then supposed to repair or replace sections of the road without also ripping out and breaking the utilities.
Lastly, the typical U.S. Interstate is made out of concrete 1 foot thick and sit directly on a well compacted subbase. I very skeptical of how what appears to be a couple of inches of plastic with a big hollow space behind it has the same durability as a foot of concrete.
All good points, great comment
Great commemt❤
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No matter if you pour and road a road on or apply decking, the most important part of a road is how it's road bed is engineered for the soil it runs through. A road ultimately lasts or fails by its road bed. Ground soil conditions must be carefully assessed to see if it warrants stabilization using sand bore piling or geomat stabilization before bedding if the soil is spongy or silty clay. Extreme seasonal changes to the undersoil must also be factored in to avoid road heave, pavement buckling, pothole lines and washout.
2:55 *That's the real future of cars🚗✈*
2:57 *top ten photos taken seconds before disaster*
Fun Fact: Everyone Watching This Video Are From The Future.
*is
Certainly not, everyone reading this is in the present and every comment is from the past
@@Brambazai No, The name of the video is Road to the Future, so I meant we are the Future the Video Meant.
@@kunaalkotak that’s cap
the future is now, old man
How would plastic roads handle extream temps (from over 110 in TX/AZ to -50 in ND?) What about road salt? Snow Plows?, etc
when designing a new type of road they'll obviously think about these things before putting the road out there
@@selkim7426 well, it's not that common...
We don't know yet how they will hold up?
They're yet another magic road scam: ruclips.net/video/Sj_FZduqblo/видео.html B1M doesn't think critically about some stuff (they've also fallen for the hyperloop nonsense).
@@maxfotoalbum243 Which is exactly why these roads still haven't been built. Because plastic melts in the heat and it also expands. 2 things your road should minimally do. There is also not enough recyclable plastic in the world to make many roads. Which is why we use asphalt. Its cheap and plentiful. Its rocks, dirt and bitumen. Bitumen is a byproduct of creating gasoline from crude oil. So its also keeping that out of the environment. And when a road gets torn up, the old asphalt is just reheated and melted back into the new road.
Thunderf00t already debunked this as physically impossible.
Could you link video/article, I would like to see what they say
@@applerox1306 could have typed plastic roads and find his video.
ruclips.net/video/Sj_FZduqblo/видео.html
@@applerox1306 ruclips.net/video/Sj_FZduqblo/видео.html
Not impossible though. The firm is still very well alive and is still building their prototype PlasticRoad thing in various countries/continents.
@@StrangerHappened I guess "physically impossible" is an imprecise term. What I really meant to say is, you can build it, you can install it, you can use it, but it will fail spectacularly and in an epic and dangerous way. Remember, "solar freakin' roadways" was also installed and their prototype is actually in a fully working location too, but its sad and proves it wouldn't serve any purpose in practice.
It would be nice to have roads be build faster. I-4 through Orlando and Tampa has been under construction my entire life. Even maybe a temporary road that can be placed and picked back up later after they are finished with the main road.
problem is the road consturctin is a lot more than just putting some black goo on the ground most of the time spent is spent creating a foundation for the actual road surface
weird how a construction channel didnt realize that
Its because these crews are paid regardless of whether they do any work or not. Unions are crazy, workers only work if the weather is right, 60-80 degrees, no rain.
oh my how can anyone be this delusional... my leg u should wake up and realize how important unions and labor laws are
take a look at europe where unions are the norm and people fight for their right to fair wages and hours and still maintain a higher standard of living than the US
u should turn off CNN and listen to unbiased media
@@akselhansen304 we're talking about Florida.
Aksel Hansen lots of the time is spent with red tape and health and safety. The biggest thing is organising services and doing pipe work. Prefabricated roads will never be faster than the traditional methods
3:22 Are the gaps between them going to get covered? Because when you ride a bicycle it’s not really pleasant to have a bump every 5 meters.
Please explain correctly in American metric system
@@Ricardo-gf7ts lmao.
@@Ricardo-gf7ts 16'1 foot
@@Ricardo-gf7ts That would be 5 yards and 16.8 inches or, almost 16.5 feet.
@@Ricardo-gf7ts 24.75 Burgers
Also, no worries, because that idea is never gonna happen. Also, using recyclable plastic into roads is a waste of plastic (not even mentioning the solar roads, which have been debunked to hell and back)
Love from INDIA 🇮🇳🇮🇳
“ash-felt” lol nice video
@Mulph bro chill its not that serious and also every language has its own variations and dialects so assuming there is only one kind of english is also quite ignorant
@Mulph Interesting, you're insulting him, but you're also wrong.
Asphalt is not pronounced, ash-felt in Britain, a quick Google search would show you this.
Yes, the pronunciation differs across America and Britain, however this narrator is making up his own pronunciation, or lending more popularity to a mispronounciation.
Britain: As-felt
America: As-fault
But but.. w-what about..
*SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS THAT "TOTALLY" WORK.*
the project already failed, it start breaking up under the usage and power efficiency was terrible as dirty and tree leaves cover the road blocking sunlight. Something that engineers who invent this took under the consideration when calculating efficiency.
I saw other documentary a exactly bout this somewhere on RUclips.
@@MK.1599 Thunderf00t?
Can we still do good burnouts on these roads tho
Go for it, police are happy to give performance driving tickets!
Tejaswin Jain Well said man! 😀👍🏻
@Tejaswin Jain can we still makes jokes tho?
@@nw3473 tyres* idiot
Its a real question though lol
I like how there are obviously tons of people who watch thunderfoot, and they probably understand that others are watching him too, but no one actually mentions him
2:00 10 tons of asphalt per kilometer... assuming 6 meter width for two lanes, that's only 1.5 kg/sqm. Real-world figures start at 100 kg/sqm (and that's for a thin layer more suitable to bicycles than real vehicles).
10 tons Plastik in a km street
@I love you but yeah thats why you repave the road, if what he said was accurate they'd just dig the top layer off and say HEY BRANd new ROAD
While I honestly impressed with all these projects, I think most of the benefits are hypothetical.
Sure, it's possible to built all of these. But it's just not practical
Yeah i was thinking the same thing but the way I see it, most new things are not going to be immediately economical but with scale growth and new construction methodology it might one day be more impractically to not switch.
Akun Saya why you say is not practical. any reason?
@@slevinshafel9395 Plastic road -> We already have microplastics concern, so..
Modular road -> What if we need to change cable etc. that usually come in one long piece? Adding modularity will complicate things more
Solar road -> most of them are fragile. Also shadow from vehicles especially in busy roads.
Well.. maybe those will be different in the future though
@@slevinshafel9395 a fully plastic road would not be able to hold its weight, the prefab plastic roads use fiberglass reinforcement making the un recycleable, while asphalt roadways are fully recyclable, and have no concern for leeching microplastics, another issue is heat expansion, plastic has poor heat expansion properties.
@@adrianmiller103 you can only say that with good ideas. Most of these are going to be replaced with more ecinomical and smarter ideas over time. Most of these are just wanna be designers that want to be different. They are just smashing to "modern" things together and making something that is pointless. Like solar road ways. The dumbest thing ever. Imaginable.
"Solar road rha can handle traffic loads"
... no they cant.
Hope you like micro plastics in your, well everything. Solar/plastic roads are a horrible idea.
That was my thought as well. I hope that the scientists are smarter than I am though and have thought about that.
@@grakkerful those engineers are certainly smarter than you are, that's why they can see things that you don't.
+Asterio why are you so rude
@@nachobabe3576 ... why are you so easily offended by people stating the truth?
Really? Where do YOU plan to leave our plastic trash currently either going into the ocean or in our dumps???
I think it's a great idea because anything that helps the environment should please everyone.
Hope that people will eventually agree to replace the traditional roads with this in all roads.
I was in office when I got the notification, couldn't wait to get home to watch it! And it was worth the wait I must say 👍🏼
Wait to get home? Pfft your job sucks.
@@voetbal12 yeah, the new GDPR has only made it worse. But the rest is great.
@@Masood1810 Word.
Ironic. I just finished watching a video exposing this scam. RUclips has a twisted sense of humor.
i watched more than two years ago a video exposing this scam XD
I guess this was in my recommended because I previously watched Thunderf00t completely bust these ideas.
i wouldnt trust the word of somebody who calls themselves an "anti sjw" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean, opposes black lives matter, and so on and so forth. that entire community of youtubers is a toxic cesspool whose only contribution is the incredibly stupid idea that white cis men are somehow oppressed by powerless minoritys, because those are getting some visual representation in pop culture.
@@jenshep1720 i wouldnt mix my opinion someones scientific analysis based on my "feelings" about his opinion on cultural matters.
he might be the biggest douche (i dont know), but that doesnt render his knowledge worthless
@@dimosk7389 his opinion on cultural matters is exactly what renders his knowledge worthless. why should i trust a guy to respect the science of one thing if he cant accept on another matter hats simply politically inconvenient for him? if he rejects facts about one group of things, i dont trust his approach to facts on anything else either. he has an interest in opposing progressive ideas to keep his channel going alone.
@@jenshep1720 what facts? on the one hand its an opinion about BLM for example. on the other hand, its plain math and physics.
@@dimosk7389 like the fact that blm are fighting for their civil rights, against systemic racism, because they are actively being discriminated against.
im not gonna debate this with you. you can accept it or not, i dont really care. your opinion is irrelevant, its fact whether you believe it or not, and i dont need to listen to a sranger on the internet defend some anti science prick with a business built on lying to his viewers.
Just keep our planet safe and clean my comrades love from Morocco North africa .
BRO PLASTIC ROADS IS LITERALLY PERFECT
What if the plastic roads started eroding plastic chemicals into streams and rivers tho 😬
thats the exact same thought i had. and yet they never included the disadvantages of plastic roads but they said about the disadvantages of normal roads
Exactly. Also when the road gets replaces you cannot separate the plastic from the rest of the material, so you can't dispose it like you normally would or recycle it
"solar roadway" is a complete fantasy
Plastic in roads? Even more microplastics? No thx
....recycled plastic
A blob of plastics in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas? No thanks.
The plastic is locked up in the road surface, ~, other than actually recycling the stuff, it's a better way of getting rid of it.
The road will slowly erode and release the plastics back into the environment. Leo you're right. These plastics will be micro micro plastics and might even do more damage.
So if I throw a plastic bottle into the ocean that's bad, but it I throw a recycled plastic bottle into the ocean that's fine?
There's little point in recycling plastic if it's going to be used in contexts where it will just be released into the environment anyways, especially when it will be through wear and tear that will convert it directly into microplastics. One major objective of recycling is to reduce the amount of microplastics released into the environment, so this is completely counter-productive.
Waste not, want not....thank you for that ingenious plan dear India.
This site has some of the silliest videos outside of those promoting psychics.
Thanks B1m for making this video you guys are the best.
2:57 Gravity: Am I a joke to you?
I'm glad you mentioned the issues with solar roads. Thunderf00t (RUclips) has torn these projects apart in his videos.
perhaps we can use solar roadways on pedestrian and bicycle lanes.
This is one of the best video of this channel 😍
I can't understand the likes of downvoters. It's time we got rid of the plastic in the oceans. I'be been thinking about all these things for years and am delighted to see this finally being put to work.
My respect for this channel has just plummeted after seeing this shit. Solar roadways have been debunked over and over and those plastic roads shown would not carry a fully laden truck. The longevity estimates are completely made up.
Thanks for your Videos i like them : )
(Solar Roads) that is the Worst place to have a Solar, real bad angel + all the scratch, so you will loss so much sun light + the most expensive place to install it
Thank you! (solar professional here)
Unfortunately the project already failed, it start breaking up under the usage and power efficiency was terrible as dirty and tree leaves cover the road blocking sunlight. Something that engineers who invent this took under the consideration when calculating efficiency.
I saw other documentary a exactly bout this somewhere on RUclips.
I really wish you didn't lump these 3 ideas in the one video, the first one seems fairly reasonable but the other two scream of short-sightedness on behalf of the creators.
Thinking outside the box. This is great!
No it isn't, it's already been debunked.
Rubberized roadways are wonderful, they are so smooth and quiet.
In Romania they don’t even put the whole 10 cm of asphalt that they are supposed. They put like 4cm and say they put 10cm and they keep the money for the rest of 6cm for themselves. With other words: they steal. Who are they? Mostly private companies owned by members of the same city hall that hires the company.
I'm only kidding
Adding plastic to the road surface: Neat but saying it will prevent plastic particles from reaching the ocean is short sighted. The plastic, just like the road surface, is prone to erosion, wear and tear. Plastic particles will come lose and tires will spread them out, they will reach water bodies in time… it might actually be the highway to micro plastic in our food chain...
Prefabricated plastic road: Because replacing a damaged road segment is so much faster and cheaper than filling a pot hole… if your town, state (whatever) fails to fill pot holes in time do you really think they will be able to repair damaged segments in time?
Stop doing drugs.
Solar road ways: Proven to be the most ineffective way to utilize solar power in the world and a colossal waste of money. Ask the French, the just build a road costing millions that can barely charge a AAA-accumulator… but who cares it is just tax money.
All the run off from roads ends up in streams, then rivers and eventually the ocean. These plastic roads won't keep plastic out of the ocean.
@@paulntraci99 Its all ready there
it's such a tiny amount though, did you even listen at all? 3-10 kg per tonne of asphalt. that means 0.3 - 1% is plastic and the rest is asphalt. plus they are said to last 10 times longer, which is a absurd amount of extra lifespan for roads. even if it's mostly false say 2 times longer that's MASSIVE. roads roughly speaking start to crack within 5 years and are bumpy as hell within 10-15 and REALLY need to be replaced by the 20 year mark. depending on traffic ofc. more traffic the more wear and tear done to the road and thus shorter lifespan of the road.
we are talking about 3-10kg per tonne of asphalt released in particle sized bits over 30-40 years. that's if it only extends the life of asphalt by 2x, if it's 10 times then it would be over a 150-200 year range.
if at 2x extended life that's only 75 - 100 to 250 - 333 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in a 1 km stretch of road 750 - 1000 to 2,500 - 3,333 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 2 - 2.7 to 6.8 - 9.1 grams of plastic each day will be released. it's such a tiny amount even though we are only at 2x life.
if at 10x extended life that's 15 - 20 to 50 - 66 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in in a 1 km stretch of road 150 - 200 to 500 to 666 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 0.41 - 0.58 to 1.37 - 1.82 grams of plastic each day will be released.
this assumes the entire road will be completely turned to dust at the end of it's lifetime which never happens so realisticly it would be closer to 20-30% of those numbers MAYBE and that's pushing it honestly. really most of the surface of the asphalt is intact when they tear it up and replace it. 5-10% is a better number which makes the release of plastic so tiny that it's not even something to think about it.
the road segment is prefabricated so it's faster
finally another person with common sense in the comments #blessyou
2:53 i like that one. look the most efficient and easy to replacement. but we must see the coeficient of friction if is high enoght to stop the car more quickly.
India is first in using plastic in making roads.
Feel proud 🇮🇳
3:07 Im a very very tidy person, and when I think of the mess of cables, pipes etc. in our earth and how difficult it is to get to know where a pipe or a cable is placed I get sick. This method would solve it: You always know, where everything is, you can upgrade internet pretty fast and cheap as well.... There are so many benefits of this method of building a road!
I like how no one is mentioning the problem of accessing the pipes and cables inside the road. Or like, how you would replace a damaged section without cutting the utilities.
thankyou! was looking for this comment for like 10 minutes
amazing how many experts there are in this comment section (:
every comment section*
Equally amazing is the amount of people who lack a fundamental grasp of science to see how stupid plastic roadways really are.
It doesn't take an expert to see how dumb the idea is so
@@timlin1667 how is it dumb
@@davidcoleman4361 watch thunderfoot
The city of Chandigarh, India has all it's road network made with plastic
That’s not true
HUNTER BOYZ Lol. No, it doesn't!
Let's also pretend that India is the world leader in promoting proven, safe, "green", eco-sustainable practices, lol.
@@pwnmeisterage it isn't but, it doesn't change the fact that the roads (few roads) in Chandigarh are actually made using plastics. You're just salty that a less developed nation is kinda already doing it when your developed nation is catching up. Also, its not just in Chandigarh, there are many cities in India which uses plastic in their roads and its been in used for a decade now. Although the risk of plastic erosion and mixing in ground water is still not fully studied.
Bro r u sure! I know Chandigarh is well planned city. But is this really true? 😳
What an amazing solution
Solar roads seem so fragile but if they have durable panels then it’s a brilliant idea
Hollow roads - the perfect place for rats to live and eat the pipes and cables.
Solar roads - the most pointless idea ever created. Solar panels needs to be pointed towards the sun, to be efficient.
Wait wait wait, the roads double as a rat habitat? And they have an all-you-can-eat plastic buffet?
*ENVIRONMENTALISM INTENSIFIES*
Seriously though, as bad as a rat infestation sounds, their combined body heat might just be enough to melt snow and ice. That would solve solar roadways' issue with ice and snow forming on the panels in the winter and blocking sunlight. Still a monumentally stupid idea.
@@docferringer Maybe road rats will be the new delicatessen?
Literally all of these have been debunked multiple times.
I can't wait for modular roads. Sick and tired of these broken roads everywhere I live.
Modular Roads sound good but once services are threaded through, and one goes faulty, how do you lift the module without disconnecting all the other services? It would be a logistical nightmare!
Steve Green
Brocken roads are a symptom of a broken government system. Some countries have good roads, countries with low tax and large inequality have bad roads.
@@parajacks4 what does that say about where I live? 😭😭😭
Seeking to overcome these challenges
Awesome stuff
0:47 Hard work, huh
0:24 so nobody is gonna talk about the fact that they recreated that exact construction in gta 5?
cuz it Is gta
0:46 - Such a hard workers... :_-)
Amazing! Solar roads and recycled plastic! The world is becoming more and more efficient and sustainable! We are proud to be a part of those developments!
Proud to be a part of literally the dumbest ideas to date? Wow you have low standards.
Great idea to mix plastics.
3:40 ah yes, putting solar panels, that are known to be fragile and won’t work when dirty, directly under heavy trucks and dirty wheels. Perfectly sound idea.
I love this channel.
Plastic roads
What about erosion? When the plastic bits start to erode where will they end up? Will they get carried off by rain water into rivers and streams and eventually the ocean? If so, how is this better for the environment?
This is incredible
« إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ۚ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا ».
Lol, this video appeared in my feed again. I just relost respect for the B1M. Solar Roadways... 🙄
Thanks for this.
Not a good idea. We already run the risk of plastic micro particles building up to dangerous levels within the worlds eco systems, and you think adding plastic to the largest, most frequently damaged & worn down, man made system on the planet will solve anything in the long run?
We eat the plastic and we poop the plastic
it's such a tiny amount though, did you even listen at all? 3-10 kg per tonne of asphalt. that means 0.3 - 1% is plastic and the rest is asphalt. plus they are said to last 10 times longer, which is a absurd amount of extra lifespan for roads. even if it's mostly false say 2 times longer that's MASSIVE. roads roughly speaking start to crack within 5 years and are bumpy as hell within 10-15 and REALLY need to be replaced by the 20 year mark. depending on traffic ofc. more traffic the more wear and tear done to the road and thus shorter lifespan of the road. we are talking about 3-10kg per tonne of asphalt released in particle sized bits over 30-40 years. that's if it only extends the life of asphalt by 2x, if it's 10 times then it would be over a 150-200 year range. if at 2x extended life that's only 75 - 100 to 250 - 333 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in a 1 km stretch of road 750 - 1000 to 2,500 - 3,333 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 2 - 2.7 to 6.8 - 9.1 grams of plastic each day will be released. it's such a tiny amount even though we are only at 2x life. if at 10x extended life that's 15 - 20 to 50 - 66 grams a year, 10 tonnes of asphalt used per km means that in in a 1 km stretch of road 150 - 200 to 500 to 666 grams of plastic each year will be released. each day that means 0.41 - 0.58 to 1.37 - 1.82 grams of plastic each day will be released. this assumes the entire road will be completely turned to dust at the end of it's lifetime which never happens so realisticly it would be closer to 20-30% of those numbers MAYBE and that's pushing it honestly. really most of the surface of the asphalt is intact when they tear it up and replace it. 5-10% is a better number which makes the release of plastic so tiny that it's not even something to think about it.
@@rocksfire4390 You know asphalt is recycled right?
1. Can you recycle it?
2. What types of scrap plastics can you use making these?
3. Is it cost effective compared to asphalt?
Asphalt is already super recyclable so this kinda a situation of if its not broken why fix it. People are trying to find solutions to stuff that isn’t a problem
Many valid concerns raised about putting plastics in roads being raised in the comments. I am intrigued by the modular prefab idea though. Lately I've been obsessed with the idea of heated roads for melting snow and ice. Removes need for plows and damaging salt, and would (I think) all but eliminate potholes. Seems like a worthwhile infrastructure project for northern climates. Maybe that type of thing would work well with the modular roads idea (whether they integrate plastic or not)
The plastic modular roads are nonsense: ruclips.net/video/Sj_FZduqblo/видео.html
Great video. U recently got ur 100k plaque. I'm just thinking how u haven't got more than that
Thanks! We're thinking the same! LOL
2:57 wait that's 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡
What?
So, suppose a pipe needs repair. Will that be even remotely possible? What about if they need upgrading?
John Guo I assume you could take up the modular piece just like you installed it?
@@JBB685 how can you if there is a pipe running through it? It's just extremely impractical.
John Guo good point. Maybe the upper part could detach from the lower with the pipes in it.
It seems like a good idea at first because you could prefab pieces and keep them stockpiled, but we’d have to rework how we do roads, for sure
John Guo, that dumbass idea will never happen, so you'll never need to worry.
@@JBB685 If that the case then every time they need to fix the pipe you have to close the road. Seems horribly silly to do that.
Amazing
Good work, to interest of environment.
What if we put wireless chargers close to the red lights where cars are waiting?
it’d be nice, but charging a battery that size, even with a cord, is super slow, but if it was wireless, it’d be so slow, you probably wouldn’t be able to notice it.
wireless chargers still require contact to work efficiently on a small scale. l
More waves beaming around ?? No thanks
All these innovations are just wonderful, but I am old, so are my friends - we probably cannot get to see all of them in use in our life times... (sigh)
You can still help
ehm if u stop and think about it for 10seconds all of this falls completly appart
there is a reason we have been using black top for ages...
Enjoy your last year's on earth
Simpsons predict a flying car when Lisa Simpson becomes president
Innovation in construction industry is always a great idea and should always be sort after
Ucinisile
Great video and well voiced its a pleasure to listen to
Then when people stop using plastic they realize that they have to make plastic to use it to get rid of plastic
currently we use about 300 million tonnes of plastic every year. So theres more than enough plastic in use right now to make new roads
🤔 but this is the nature of the world, it works in cycles. Nothing is completely gone, it just goes round again, some things take longer then others but all will be used again.
2:48 You know it's legit when video is a render, and the only "real" example is for bicycles, not cars 🙄
Great video!
Thank you!!
until u think about all of these solutions and realize how flawed they are the only idea that makes sense is they guy putting plastic in regular black top
Just shared it with my city councilor.
The types of plastic that are durable enough to mimic asphalt are not recyclable unfortunately. Asphalt is recyclable. Also, solar road's are very inefficient for power production as panels gain 30-50% more power when they're pointing towards the sun rather than laid flat. That's why panels on rooftops are so great. Not to mention the inefficiencies from putting the panel under textured glass...
It was full of information I liked it
Both projects have utterly failed from the get go, and from some obvious reasons, so good job of not actually taking a deeper look on their specs.
0:47 Imma just tap these rocks a bit and move side to side
Can I just say I live in Cumbria and we got these roads because they were water proof so we don’t have any mudslides or major flooding
Nah bro u lying
Gregory Mooy The roads were designed specifically to direct water into the recently dredged rivers ;)
Amazing channel, love every single video
Well done, sir. Thank you