China Solar Highway Stolen

Newstalk 14 06 9 jan 2018 share this article.

China solar highway stolen. Thieves in china have vandalised a newly opened solar highway less than a week after the road was christened with much fanfare. The road to china s autonomous driving future is paved with solar panels mapping sensors and electric battery rechargers as the nation tests an intelligent highway that could speed the. Does this mean the. Section of china s new solar highway stolen after only five days.

But it was vandalized and had sensitive parts stolen from it five days after opening the beijing youth daily said. The one kilometre stretch of road in the eastern city of jinan. It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes. Part of china s solar highway was stolen causing a shutdown.

China s first solar expressway with a length of 1 kilometer was opened for testing in december 2017 in east china s jinan. China s solar energy collecting highway in jinan which opened in december was forced to close after thieves stole or damaged some of the solar panels. Bloodsuckers overran a tower in china. In china one six foot panel of a 0 6 mile solar highway was stolen prompting the government to abandon the project.

China s solar highway was victim of heavy traffic and bad design not thieves report says stolen panel was actually hiding in plain sight in thousands of tiny pieces investigation. It is covered in more than 10 000 solar panels and its three layers include translucent concrete on the top photovoltaic panels in the middle and insulation on the bottom according to china central television cctv. The world s first solar panel paved highway opened to use in china s eastern shandong province on december 28 last year. A road construction worker was.