MEP EP#259: Troncrete

Show Notes

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....

Creators & Guests

Host

Parker Dillmann

A Founder @MacroFab.Builds Electronics, Cars, & Jeeps.

Host

Stephen Kraig

EE

Producer

Chris Martin

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