Oh fuck this guy. A cellphone that requires you to carry a battery in a suitcase is not a great idea either. A wheeled vehicle in a country with no roads and horse trails is not a great idea either. An app that reduces public discourse to 140 characters is not a great idea either. A piece of software that allows the very few connected computers to talk to each other, is not a great idea either. Expecting your homemade rocket to revolutionize space flight on its first flight is not a great idea either. Taking on the entrenched auto manufacturers and the legislature of all 50 individual states and the battery industry and the gas and oil industry and public perception is not a great idea either. I could go on and on and on and on. Expecting the first prototype implementation of an audacious idea to be a commercial success is fucking moronic. It's amazing they got ANY power out of these panels. At all. Just finding a glassine surface that kinda worked... Just finding a way to store and distribute that power... Just finding a way to manufacture these panels in ANY quantity at all... Just finding the funding to build such a project... Just finding a municipality that was willing to take a chance on it... ALL of those are successes that would be lauded in ANY other context. Those are all significant technological, legislative, funding, and prototyping wins. Fuck this guy. I bet his next article will be about how stupid NASA was to test a rover in the Arctic. What a fucking tool. However, perhaps there’s a bigger point — solar roads on city streets are just not a great idea.