Plastic Roadways BUSTED!
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2017
- So they are going to make roads out of plastic.... they will last 3 times longer.... will handle cables and water... AND be made out of recycled material!! Kinda like solar roadways, just without the solar panels!.. and now it has some 60 million hits on facebook!
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Their FAQ page is far more realistic where they basically say they dont even know if its possible or not. Makes you wonder why they described it as 'a revolution in road construction'!
www.plasticroad.eu/en/
So the IMPLICATION is they are going to use polyethylene terephthalate, which is a great polymer. It's used to make soda bottles. However its just WAY too soft to make a road out of.
Could they make a composite material? Well maybe. Naturally it will cost more. If its fiber reinforced, you sensibly lose the ability the recycle the material. If its going to use rock to make a composite, then its basically indistinguishable from regular blacktop, with the exception it uses polymeric crap as the binder rather than bitumen. Hardly a revolution. People have been adding all sorts of extras to roadsurfaces for years. Most notably ground up waste tires worked quite well. Shoulda put that in the video really.....
Anyways, then you go and read their FAQ, and you realize that this is more things that they hope will be true, rather than the things they claim ARE true in their video, like 'this will be a revolution in road construction'. That BS has now been seen by over 60 million people! -great!
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/ thunderf00t - Розваги
If the plastic is too slippery, just make the wheels out of asphalt!
WOAH SOLAR ASPHALT FREEKIN WHEEELS???LIKE NO WAY
SOLAR *F R E A K I N'* WHEELS !!!
EternalBooda boom boom tish comment there... well played!
This reminds me that episode of Darkwing Duck where he got to past and saw dinosaurs civilization with roads from rubber and wheels from asphalt.
In no way that was a prophesy, right?...Right?
That's the episode I was thinking of :4)
As a fiber technician i wonder how they plan to replace one road unit without breaking the cable. Going to be a lot of splices on that link.
Gaffer tape...?
Cables, pipes, sewers, electricity, gas, water are all buried at different levels, surrounded by cushioning materials, for sensible reasons. They are accessed by various means, inspection chambers, ducts and so on. And so on...
Painfully funny :D
make a slot in the road pieces that the cable can be slid in and out of without cutting it. this is literally the easiest problem to solve in this roadway issue.
@@ah7027 Yeah man, definitely. Potholes now mean that tour house doesnt have power or internet, and you know how effective the government is at even getting someone out to fix the road.
with an solar panel and a hyperloop
But Thunderf00t you forget all the benefits, i.e. if a car gets on fire, 911 do no longer have to ask about where the car are located, it can be seen miles away and a half a ton of molten plastic has never hurt anyone! Oh and even the blind can now avoid driving over a burning road part, by the smell alone (how the blind would drive a car, is not the important here) it's innovation and the future. Also imagine how easy it will be to find the super "light" plastic-road tiles again after a tornado, you can easily spot them flying hundreds of feet in the air, and they do not break, just because they fly into a few cars on the highway, go trough a house or land on some pedestrians. Thunderf00t, you do not see all the advantages! Imagine how much power it will save, every time a tile or more have to be switched out, the hours without power or water while a new tile is transported, replaced and reconnected!! You simply have to embrace the progress and benefits!! :-)
Mmmm maybe they will make it fireproof ? Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This sarcasm is really underrated man im died laughing
@@yomiha.toysjogja LOL! Thanks, you made my day by that comment! :-)
Silly Fired Mute
If a car get in fire, the policeman no longer even need to work since the whole road will be on fire very soon. Better yet, I don't think it won't be a long shot for the whole city get an extra day off from this as well.
13 minutes in and you still haven't talked about how the entire road would need to be PERFECTLY STRAIGHT in all dimensions. No twists, no curves, no elevations.
Yeah, roads without inclinations, ok first rain, you get a river instead of a road, the idea blows in the connections between elements which is impossible with specifications of plastic itself, (to less grip, too much expansion)
It's a flat country!
Don't be so environmentally racist by using your brain and being logical.
The earth is flat tho! /s
Plus the micro plastics that will be made from abrasions that will then go into the environment.
Imagine doing a burnout and cutting the power to ur whole block
Haha 😂
The heat is gonna melt the road as well
@@happymeme1329 In an Australian summer it would be a honey like substance
Yeah.!!!!!!!!
IIGrayfoxII ewwww, I can smell it already
"Power lines, data lines, fiber optics and high-speed internet."
Speak really fast and no-one will notice you are repeating yourself.
This says a lot about our society.
Intenselly LIt
True. Nothing but tons of garbage being spewed
@@thalmoragent9344 please don't take my ironic comment seriously.
Intenselly LIt wouldn't be funny if there wasn't truth in it.
@@TomJacobW damn bruh thas deep
Give me ten million dollars and I’ll make new DirtRoads(TM)
These roads cost next to nothing to make, and allow for easy maintenance!
Ironically, dirt roads are better if you compare it to plastic roads. Because it actually does its job.
Not only that, they are environmentally friendly
In Hungary they used up nearly 1/3 of a million of USD to build 2 km dirt road.
I guess it includes the 2000 USD of renting the bulldozer, 200 USD of the worker.
Good luck when it rains
@icookchildrenandeatthem9085 actually once broken in dirt roads are fine in rain.
0:57 I'm more interested in that truck that can apparently levitate over pits.
that truck is a paid actor
we will have flying cars in future
the future :
LOL
Big Riggs (the game) presents:
Cyber truck
So snow melds durung the day, goes into the hollow interior then freezes at night blowing up the road.
Michigan
Lasky Labs Buffalo
@Great Value Bleach soda pop bottles can, that's because they're pressurised.
well it is possible to run a heat source into the road. Would reduce that chance of icing in general but ice freezing inside the road would cause an explosion.
@@ah7027 no it wouldn't.
If roads were converted into lego roads, it would prevent Jaywalkers
WhiteWolfos
Sorry to say, it's only going to stop barefoot j walkers.
As in, you going outside to get the mail.
Comedy gold!
You have a criminally under rated comment XD
oriontherealironman plagiarizing is criminally illegal
Hahaha
What are we planning to do with the billions of pounds of asphalt we get after we switch out all the roads? Just put it where the old plastic landfills were?
In your dreams. Asphalt is expensive i.e. you will be able to sell it anyway.
@@heyhoe168 sell it for what purpose? The biggest reason to buy asphalt in the first place is gone.
@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd have you watched the video? Asphalt, being expensive, is still cheaper and make better quality roads than plastic. Also it is the byproduct of oil refining. That means, no matter how cheaper it will get, it will still be sold. So Asphalt roads will be here until the end of all oil on planet.
@@heyhoe168 Yeah, good luck selling a product that had a plummeted demand when it switched to the plastic roads.
@@magosexploratoradeon6409 lol. Selling asphalt is like selling shit. You can go as low as delivery cost and still have profit. Nothing can beat out from market this kind of products.
The roads would melt in desert and tropical areas 😂 your tires would have a hard layer of plastic on them
Does a water bottle melt in the desert sun? No….then why would the considerably thicker plastic road melt?
I agree it’s a dumb idea but not for this reason
@@fijiwill2237 could still warp and sag from heat after a long period of time
Plastic doesn’t melt that easily. Asphalt melts in summer
@@fijiwill2237 you underestimate the power of sun...P R A I S E T H E S U N
@@WycliffStudios Asphalt gets soft, but it doesn't actually melt. It sticks together. That's the magic of bitumen! Have you tried separating asphalt?
Plastic degrades and will actually melt. That's why microplastics is a thing and a huge problem.
Nothing beats bitumen.
As an added bonus, when the plastic breaks down from UV, it can be carried directly into the water supply via its integrated drainage.
Your plastic star no longer needs to make the arduous journey when it escapes from your landfill. It can just be released directly into all of the local drainage thereby ensuring a steady diet of plastic.
Yum yum
@Dr.Cemong straight from the bottle, no processing or any of that unhealthy shit
@Dr.Cemong more nutrients and all. I need to get that daily intake of polypropylene somehow
@Daniel von Strangle oh that's just normal. Take some methanol every 4 hours and you'll be right as rain
I like the bitterness in this
Make roads out of recycled gold!
1) Not affected by sunlight, water or oil.
2) Allows for levitating vehicles.
3) Readily supports mounting of diamonds for high friction and durability when wheeled vehicles are used.
4) Increases the value of gold for investors.
5) Looks cool.
sidenote: ( the expenses of this project may be slightly more than the average roadway but it will be tooooootally worth it)
Better yet, let's make jewellery out of recycled roads.
BlankBrain Also will cause a decrease in burglaries due to the number if would-be thieves getting hit by cars.
... man kind is fck ...
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Asphalt is an amazing material. I was actually listening to this video as I'm spreading used ground up asphalt on a road to be reused.
i like to drive on concrete. Asfalt is too soft. Here in LA we sinking into it in summer time. Cars create tracks into it. Changing lanes 80 M/h is not fun on tracks.
@@mydigitallife8311 yikes. Don't need to worry about that here in canada. Lol
@@Wilmafistfit69 ideally we could build roads like the romans did, and admittably they would last hundreds of years, but at what cost...
Services works alone (water, sewage, etc) would be a nightmare, but hey, fancy roads at least.
@@DeerKoden roman roads actually last as long as regular roads do
the roman roads simply didn't have thousands of several ton vehicles going on them traveling at least 50 kmh
infact roman roads were pretty much made almost exactly the same as modern concrete roads. the romans just also used stones and slightly different consistencies of concrete than are used today
also idk why service works would be any issue? given that again it's pretty much the exact same material as is used today
also not only that they weren't even really durable, again they only last longer from not having trucks and cars breaking and accelerating constantly on them. as u can see from images of the roman roads they are very bumpy and include large rocks thus making it an absolutely miserable experience to even attempt to drive on them at slow speeds, if you tried going fast on them it might genuinely break ur car apart. modern concrete roads and especially stone roads would quite possibly last equally long if not even longer if they didn't have people driving on them constantly
another reason these types of cobblestone roads aren't seen as much anymore is because from what i've heard, they are an absolute pain for people with arthritis to walk on thus making them less useful as even a strictly pedestrian road
essentially every form of travel has a much more miserable experience using them and their durability isn't even THAT good. we stopped using the material for a reason
I'm stuck on the _"you can pass cables through it"._ Then how do you replace one of the things if it got cables going through it, genius? You cut the cables?
I know this already two month old comments, but that first things pops on my mind too when I saw the cable line inside this plastic road
No, silly. We would stop and divert traffic, painstakingly cut the segment into manageable pieces without damaging the utilities. Then we would bring in the necessary equipment to assemble forms and injection mold a new replacement section. Disassemble and demobilize all of the equipment and materials.., and open the road to traffic, again! -- Simple! -- And just think of the millions of more jobs! Everyone can now be employed... Round the clock road repair --- everywhere! No need to transit for work. Jobs within walking distance... Good for CO2 reduction. Employment and Climate issues resolved simultaneously. Win! Win! Win! I can't wait...
@@johnlshilling1446 Well, that would solve unemployment. :)
It's very clear whoever thought this shit up is used to small modular things that just snap together. Like a child playing with Legos.
What about other pipes?
Wait.. *Plastic Solar Roadways*
*goes on kickstarter
You have to have good 3D animations, though.
Don't forget that Thorium
+owchywawa mediocre* 3D animations. Most of these could trivially have been made by one guy with a bit of a hobby.
Great idea! You can even put 2-3 more layers of solar panels in the hollow space!
Mukor Subterranean solar power is a vastly unexploited resource, I'll have you know.
So basically plastic roads are:
Non durable
When scratched by small debris under cars weight turns into microplastics which is worse than normal plastic waste.
So basically they work. Holland 🇳🇱 has already got them in places and it’s working fine
Plastic has a moh hardness of 2 or 3 (depending on the type of plastic) but concrete is 8 in hardness which is why it is not durable
Yashua Fradkin ah yes because car tires are always 100% clean. Go ahead and lick your car tire and tell me there isn’t a ton of debris on it.
And asfalt is good for murder
@@Kj_Gamer2614 Dude. *A (literally one) bike path is NOT a motor-way..* You are ridiculous for even insinuating that. This is a joke of an idea.
Pretty soon you are going to be talking about how great "solar roadways" are.
"We have sOlAr RoAdWaYs In ThE UsA (🇺🇸🇺🇸 pride! derp!) hUrDuR, lOoK hOw GrEaT tHeY aRe"
Except we have a (literally one) "solar walkway". Not a roadway. And as was repeatedly explained by many people (such as Thunderf00t), it was never going to work. And its not. The same as this "plastic roadways" project..
*"So basically they work".* You sound like a child with a response like that. You are basically saying, "I am going to just completely ignore everything you just said and say it works because I said so".
This video taught me to appreciate the simplicity of asphalt
I wonder how fire holds up to these road ways??? Let's remember that there are fires in the forests in many countries.
Fun fact: Some versions of PET are flammable! So if a Tesla caught fire, the entire road network would go up in flames! And... if you ran gas pipes down roads, they would also spontaneously combust. How fun!
Thunder, You should make an "Asphalt FREAKIN' Roadways" propaganda video, espousing the revolutionary properties of asphalt as a road surface.
That would be pretty good I do have to say. It may be a bit too scientific and complicated for the average joe though.
ChapstickPremonitions THORIUM FREAKING SOLAR PLASTICSEER FUSION REACTING HYPERLOOPING AIR CARBON!!!111
Yes, but do it like a Roman engineer would have to had to pitch it to the Emperor. Where the existing technology was cobble stone, and everyone was fine with it. He'd have to convince why his smooth paste like road would increase the rate of travel between Rome and the outlying territories etc.
Will you make a propaganda video espousing the revolutionary properties of imperative structural programming as a programming paradigm?
+Kakto Tak
These are the parentheses of your father. A sophisticated weapon from a more civilized age.
Rule number one of BS detection, Show me it working and not just pictures or nice computer videos
Heads Tails Nice computer videos? They look like shit; they probably spent as little as possible on them.
It really is incredible just how so many folk find a third rate cheap'o animation and some bullshit faux edutainment spiel to be convincing.
They are surely aimed squarely at that section of the population who have no knowledge of anything remotely relevant, and who will simply jump enthusiastically at the supposed futuristic, green, recycling, environmentally friendly, and I stress EASY option.
Typical wishful thinking fantasy bollocks. I find it difficult to not view them mostly as scams. Or at best highly suggestive and disingenuous, for the purpose of acquiring or securing some grant or funding.
True but to some person in an office whose graphic viewing limit is MS office, that video probably looks like withccraft :P
Problem is that once a company has a working prototype, their share prices rocket. Most people are hoping to buy up before that date and enjoy the ride up. That is why people are pulling their hair out when these pitches come out, they don't know what to believe.
Yes just like Waterseer, no Actual Model whatsoever only use Computer Model (CGI)
Did they hire the guy who narrates the "how things are made" TV show?
"We have a lot of knowledge and experience in dealing with a lack of stiffness."
Sounds like my ex wife...
HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ooooh self burn
She dealt with it alright...
Bahahahahahahaha
Nuclear waste roadways.
Just radioactive enough to stay warm enough to melt snow and keep fluorescent paint glowing. Pre-treats waste rain water killing microbes.
I'm fucking brilliant.
Xelbiuj - Unfortunately you might be good at this shit but your marketing sucks. This should be targeted at hospitals instead.
Xelbiuj r u looking to give hospitals more business ?
Even if u die of radiation poisoning its still worth it.
Nuclear Waste FREAKIN' Roadways!
ADHIRAJ OBEROI
If people die of radiation, then the road also contributes to reducing human population
💥💥 BOOM 💥💥
Population Explosion eradicated!!!
PLASTIC FRICKIN ROADWAYS? WITH LEDS? AND THEY'RE THORIUM POWERED?
Arminius idiocy is described as reinventing the wheel but great innovators reiterate past inventions for efficiency savings (I don't mean cost)
Thorium powered AND solar powered.
You forgot the part where they could generate clean drinking water from hot air.
They are also enclosed in a vacuum for super speed travel!
And next to the roads they have solar walls with no solar panels
Don’t reinvent the wheel...asphalt is an incredible material that currently cannot be beat.
"We have a lot of knowledge dealing with a lack of stiffness."
Sounds like a personal problem.
Or you know, we could recycle the bottles into, like, *other bottles*.
LazerLord10 that's *crazy*
LazerLord10 What are you... logical?
Or even clothes, I used to have a jacket made of recycled bottles (or at least mostly I don't remember it was a long time ago)
Quick, we need an animator; partner.
LazerLord10
The carbon chains break each time plastics are reused. This means that there is a limit to how many times you can recycle hydrocarbons, due to this deterioration.
A better process would be to track plastics from production through to eventual conversion into e.g. a fuel source, or conversion into some form of aggregate for use in a suitable application.
Now hear me out on this one guys, I think this will really work. Three words; Ramen. Noodle. Roads.
Naruto Uzumaki Better idea. Spicy Chicken Ramen Noodle Roads.
Naruto Uzumaki GENIUS! RAMEN IS SO CHEAP!
Dillon Sucks m mo
Naruto Uzumaki "I should rhyme, rhyme with roman noodles"
No spicy chicken, that's my favorite flavor.
Remember kids, every time you hear about ecological tech, you should to search for other red flags.
Plastic roads exist...succesfully, in a few areas.
@Mogul Dash Define "successful." We've been "successfully" wasting plastic and putting it into the ground for decades. It's ridiculous and you'll ruin the environment in your quest to be right.
It hasn't even been long enough to prove it can hold up. 🤦
I genuinely hope you're getting paid by them, because that's the only excuse for thinking PLASTIC roads will be good for you and your family.
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 I watch thunderfoot and he has enjoyable content. He is right about a lot, but an ignorant fool in this case. Seems like he has sicked you in as well
@@Mogul20478 yeah you mean that one by jusco in India, which strangely has no figures on how much repair needed to be done to it and any environmental impact study after that?
@@Jinkypigs Chennai: While the plastic roads may be a new concept in many parts of India, Chennai has been experimenting with it since 2011. Chennai has used nearly 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste to construct 1,035.23 kilometres length of roads in recent years, which include N.S.C Bose road, Halls road, Ethiraj Silai Street and Sardar Patel Street.
Pune: Using bitumen technology on waste plastic, the Pune Municipal Corporation constructed a 150-metre stretch of Bhagwat lane at Navi Peth near Vaikunth Crematorium in 2016. The other trial patches in Pune include Dattawadi Kaka Halwai Lane, Katraj Dairy, Magarpatta City HCMTR Road, Kavde Mala Road, Koregaon Park Lane No 3 and Yeravada Sadal Baba Darga Road from Chandrama Chowk.
Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Utility and Services Company (JUSCO), which is a subsidiary company of Tata Steel, constructed a 12-15 km road in the steel city as well as Tata Steel Works using plastic road, including a nearly 1 km stretch in Ranchi, 500m stretch each in Dhurwa and Morabadi, 3 km of roads in Chas and Jamtara each and 500m stretch in Giridih.
Thunderfoot IS WRONG.
When something sounds too good to be true, it usually means it's a scam. Also, I liked seeing the video of the solar walkway that was supposed to melt snow and ice on its surface to eliminate the need to shovel and salt it in winter, but the video showed someone secretly shoveling it.
_"Our project is ground breaking and world changing. We haven't researched it yet, but nevermind, the results will be awesome!"_
hahahaha true
skaruts Now, where have I heard that logic before?
Just like Trump!
(sarcasm)
Well, it's true that it'll be "ground breaking" if it's ever implemented in any way shape, or form...
ground breaker indeed
I’d love to go 65 mph in the rain on a plastic road.
Omar Peoples also add twisty roads not a straight away
It would just go through the plastic and below so it wouldn’t become slippy
It would be like driving on an ice lake
@@Kj_Gamer2614 the roads would not become instantly dry dummy
Daniel Zola yeah but asphalt also doesn’t dry instantly and is slippy DUMMY
"Where we're going, we don't need roads" is what I keep thinking ...
I'm three years late to this, but I'm going through a binge watch of your BUSTED videos and honestly I'm in awe of how intuitive your scientific counterarguments are to many of these busted products. Wish there were more science teachers out there with your attitude, it'd make debunking shit like this as well as inventing good quality products a billion times easier if students were taught to think in a similar fashion.
One of the best advantages of asphalt is that it is NOT prefabricated. Asphalt is actively laid to fit the desired form at the job site. Prefabricated modules would probably be a nightmare anyway.
Could you imagine having to field fit every single tile while building a road? You'd be lucky to "pave" a kilometer a month.
tbh over here in germany we had the old autobahn produced in tiles from beton, i think there are even some of them left in east-germany. It actually was cheap and fast to build/repair but didnt last long. The problem was that the tiles get driven into the ground uneven, so you'll get very bumpy roads quite soon. That would also not be very good for those cables and pipes running through there.
Linus P Mate, for a while here in Mumbai, the government decided that paver blocks where the way to go. Next monsoon half of them were gone. The rest had a tendency to dip ever so slightly when trying to drive on them.
William Hammond Plastic roads,are real,and do work.He isn't telling people everything about them,they are mixed with Assfault.
I have an Autobahn near me made of concrete, although I think they poured the slabs on site. When it got really hot one summer the expansion joints where overwhelmed and some of the slabs popped up. That made some neat ramps that you could get some good air of, especially since most of that Autobahn is unrestricted.
Think of all the micro plastic this would generate and go everywhere.
Man, that ship has sailed. Our society relies so much on plastics for nearly every facet of its existence that I doubt any person living in an urban environment goes a single regular day without consuming microplastics in some capacity or another.
Not like this idea'd help the situation, though. Shame, it was such a nice thought to believe we'd kill two birds with one stone...
@Yashua Fradkin rocks in tire holes
@Yashua Fradkin are you replying to every comment? tires have loads of debris grinding on the road plus thousands of pounds of car above it... it's amazing how stupid you are
@Yashua Fradkin are you stupid a tire creates alot of friction not to mention debris in the tires, dirt sand or any other contaminates on the surface or within a tire, worn down tires have metal bands which can be exposed and destroy plastic or rip high end working gloves. not to mention the road would have to hold over 10 tons of moving weight by semi trucks or multiple cars. concrete deteriorates faster that asphalt which is why you rarely see it except on entrance to highways or on certain applications such as bridges.
It's already a problem, but plastic roads would make it worse. Microscopic bits of plastic are being found in human body cells.
This has to be about the 10th video of yours I watched and this reminded me of one of my "insights" I've learned in my 50 years on the planet. "Everything is easy...until you try to do it yourself". All these people who just eschew the details aside are just fabulous Dunning-Kreuger subject.
Imagine all the microplastics this stuff releases due to friction
That's what happens when designers play engineers.
Every Fucking Time.
hellcat1988
You do understand that bridges in your link have absolutely nothing to do with this plastic roadway?..
Yeah I understand they don't. The reason I linked to all those articles is because they are proof that nearly every claim this guy made about plastic roadways is false. They CAN take the weight without deforming. They CAN take the abuse of vehicles driving over them without abrading into nothing in a minute's time. They CAN be made with whatever surface texture they need them to be in order to give positive traction in any weather condition.
Those plastic bridges don't use simple PET plastic, which was the entire point of the video. They certainly can't be recycled. But they're cheaper than regular bridges and last about the same or longer (estimated). And as said in the video, the road foundation is the hard part. Once they start putting on the asphalt the road is pretty much finished.
This doesn't even remotely compare to your bridges.
You'll also notice the video describing the plastic road surface said they don't have a final design or material makeup selected. There is no reason they can't change it. As far as the bridges using glass fiber reinforcement, I still haven't seen anything saying they can't be recycled into the same material for the same purpose. If you can provide me with a link with definitive answers as to such, I'd appreciate it.
As far as the road surface is concerned, if they can use crushed granite rocks as a base for railroad ties to provide support and drainage, I don't see why they can't do the same with the road base. It would save a lot of time and labor compared to the current system.
Yes, there is still quite a bit of prep work to be done in making the base for rails to pass over, but not nearly as much as for roadways as the overlying road surface tends to be much more susceptible to variations in ground density.
Using crushed granite stone as a base would cut the time and maintenance, and the rigid plastic panels would help overcome the difficulties associated with different levels of compaction in the base that lead to potholes and cracks in typical asphalt and concrete road surfaces.
I'm not saying that the original plastic roadways video is by any means correct or complete, but as a base of an idea to build on, it has merit. Many of the problems that people have pointed out in the comments here and in the video by thunderf00t have already been solved in other areas of construction using plastics or can be overcome relatively quickly.
I still have yet to hear of a sure fire way to guarantee against potholes in asphalt or concrete; or even a cheap and quick way to repair them long term.
Since the actually expensive part is the foundation, there is simply no point in making the road out of plastic. The asphalt layer is rather thin. And better plastics (not PET) are expensive. That's nice for specific points (like bridges), but sucks for entire roads. Bridges also have the problem that cities cheaped out with corrosive steal in that reinforced concrete and now they have to pay the price for their greedyness.
Solar roadways made out of recycled thorium plastic that's hollow so it can hold tiny cold fusion reactors inside to charge EM drives. Also it condenses water which we give to people in Africa or something.
All the rain runoff will collect under the road, and the cold fusion reactors will run underground water treatment plants. Then we'll build a 9,000 mile long hyperloop to send the water directly to Africa.
Brilliant. Take all of my money.
mrbobmanbob and is airborne with pripeller fans to generate electricity and hold itself up and provide internet to people worldwide
Are your roads gender neutral too? If not I'm not buying them!
mrbobmanbob oh and don't forget to put magnetic mines near it to keep the sjws away
Omg I'm so glad you covered this and I found your video. There are so many issues that they do not address or skim over as if it's not a problem. You've done such a great job on this video!
America: declares that it will be using plastic roads
Middle East: *profuse sweating*
Cant wait for plastic solar thorium powered hyperloop freaking roadways
Birki gts best moment i read all day
cheater, you just copied my comment
built in waterseer too
lol you did copy his comment
Birki gts checkmate atheists
We should make roads out of Flex Seal Liquid
ya boi gmac I mean. It would actually work.
I sawed this road in half
T H A T S A L O T T A D A M A G E ! !
I have an idea of a flex seal product! Flex Seal Metal Liquid! It can probably be suitable for a road!
@@kasparthorngirl lmao underated comment
I see that Thunderf00t had to CONVIENTLY blur himself out of camera when biting gold, obviously so we couldn’t see his hidden He-Man Trap Jaw teeth.
I just found this video. My family has been in asphalt road construction since the 1950’s. Thank you for bringing up how green asphalt is. I hate how much grief asphalt is given.
Can't wait for thorium powered hyperloop freakin highways
2 mins after birkis comment, rip
before*
It's even spelt the same way as what he said only two hours ago no period one cap and nothing else.
Just take it as a compliment, idiots like Birki gts will always steal the best idea.
Solar Thorium Powered Hovering Hyperloop Freakin' Plastic Highways** Get it right, you racist misogynist!
Being an engineering student I instantly knew the presentation was BS, but even I wouldn't have known just HOW MANY problems there were until you pointed them out. Thank you for making these videos and ever so slightly raising the collective IQ of society.
Lawrence Lentini i am an asphalt paver opperator. this BS is laughable at best. i cant believe how much they underestimate the effects of continuous pressure of vehicles.
datipa disdick I honestly don't think they believe a word they say about it. They're just taking advantage of people's ignorance for publicity.
Lets make vehicles out of plastic. Well that's a bad idea. Lets not do that.
Christopher Weaver Automakers: **autistic screeching**
Christopher Weaver they already do and alot of adhesive involved as well.
I would love to see how this would work during a Washington winter.
I live in Wales and they have just recently found microplastics in lakes high up in our mountains so this means that shit is getting in the rain. This is why it is such an idiotic idea.
Yup, this is what will happen and why I'm angrily replying to morons claiming they've had "success" when they have no idea what that plastic road is going to be in 5 to 10 to 20+ years. They haven't given the plastic a chance to break down and go into their water...no further tests, just, "it's a success!!!"
Those micro plastics most likely came from you current roads, or doing laundry with your plastic clothes. A vehicles tires are made of twice as much Styrene, polyester, and nylon plastics as actual rubber. Tires wearing out on the road directly add microplastic to the nearest waterway whenever it rains. Old tires and PET bottles are also shredded and added to asphalt mixes when roads are paved and repaved(even in Wales). Every time you wash a piece of clothing or sheet that contains polyester(PET) or nylon you're also washing more microplastics into the water cycle.
Micro plastics is pretty far down on the list of reasons why this road is an idiotic idea.
Hahahahahaha, I saw this on Facebook and I thought, "Oh look, another Thunderf00t video incoming." Man, people just want to make stupid shit for Thunderf00t to disprove.
They see people will fund anything with a pro-Earth positive label and want to get in on the money.
But why?? It's 100% medically acurate!!
Wait I can get a Thunderf00t video about me by just making up some stupid shit?
*goes to design table to start making up stupid shit*
+qwerty asdf
Lol true
it's a great idea, for everything but roads. sidewalks, driveways, etc.
I'm gonna do a kickstarter for genetically engineering a plant that can grow into a very strong fiberous mass, creating roads
Also it absorbs water and conducts electricity. No road floods. Any damage is fixed by the plant growing and self repairing.
You know, that could actually work, there are ideas similar to that being tossed around by geneticists. We just don't quite yet have the level of sophistication in the field of genetic engineering to do a modification that large yet. But you'd be surprised what a few decades of research can accomplish.
There is a place where they make bridges and pathways from the roots of trees. They carefully train the roots by tying them off and suchlike to create their highways.
as the trees grow they tend to the roots ,it can take generations to complete .
You mean trees and wood?
When I was watching the first ad at the start of this, my first thought was, "what idiot dreamed this up?"
The ad ??
I'm late to this but i'm so glad you brought up the building of subgrade and drainage. I was astounded by the video only showing the panels being used on compacted dirt.
just imagine a car burning on a plastic road ^^' bye bye road, bye bye pipes, bye bye cables. yeah genius idea!
You made me lough )))
Didn’t even think about that, lol.
The gov will mandate fire proof cars!
@zack dai some plastics can take some heat, so exhaust / friction heat from the tires probably won't matter. But some plastics will just melt from the sun alone (I've been in a 3D printing group where someone shared the sad picture of a PLA figurine that turned into a plastic puddle. R. I. P)
Imagine a wildfire out west burning 100 miles of interstate highways.
Not to mention what it will do to microplastic pollution when all this abraded plastic inevitably ends up in the oceans................
No joke, all those bits of plastic shaving constantly peeling off these roads would be a disaster.
Wade Haden yes.
Plastic, especially micro beads, are an ecological nightmare.
It's already in the oceans. Just source it from there to start with.
@@snowcrash512 "It's flood proof"
*Show's image of water run off going into the soil
*Hidden vid doesn't show the downstream effects of microparticles ending up all over the goddamn place.
But yeah, but no. Didn't you watch the movie - they're going to have localised, specialist water treatment so that none of the pollution escapes. You know, just like in Flint, Michigan.
Love how they want to move all the cables, pipes that run underground next to the roads - a few metres into the road, just complicating it and removing core features to insane levels.
I remember that concept a few years ago. The first problem I saw is when you recycle any UV degraded plastic polymer, it would be just as brittle afterwards. It would have to be another item for the landfill. I just found this channel and I am enjoying it. Thumbs up!
You might call this idea _surface-level thinking_.
EdwardHowton bud dum tss
Your sense of humour is *pretty shallow*.
hi, i'm from germany
and i only got one question
how the fuck are our tanks going to roll on this shit
Kniv Jesus cheese tanks my friend, cheese tanks.
Kniv Jesus What happens if you do a burnout on it? xD
Actually I think tanks are pretty benign, I mean they can rough up the surface, but they are quite unlikely to actually make it fail. At least they spread their weight over a huge contact patch. I'd be more concerned about your typical everyday semi-trailer truck.
Speaking of burning... a car fire would royally mess that stuff up, or worse a pool fuel fire...
Corvid At least asphalt is fire proof
imagine on a sunny day it expands and causes the deformation to cause car crashes, or during winter it contracts into a breaking point ruining those power and data lines.
4:39 When I see this, my first thought is some guy opening a very thicc soda can.
Its nothing new, Scaletric and Hot Wheels have been doing it for years:-)
The Last Pilot even lego caught on to the idea..
Oooh yeah, and you can build loop the loop.
So they think we’re hotweels now?
NotYourRegularMate :/ As long as I can slam down the road at 500 miles an hour towards the loopty loop(I assume they'll install them in intersections), I pledge full support.
Not Pulverman Don't look now, but I think I just saw a Hitch n' Haul roaring into the loopi-....SWEET BABY JESUS, THE LOOP'S CAVED IN!
NotYourRegularMate :/ yes
Easy replacement 😂 I thought they want to put cable into it how can you replace it ever without cutting the cable .
2 WORDS...... SNOW & ICE.
reinventing the wheel
Badly
and with plastic
kaden gosso no with solar panels
It’s even stupider
Wait, but wheels are already made of plastic!
Behold, the brand new Solar Firckin' Plastic Thorium Hyperwheel!
Why do people try to re-invent roads all the time? What is wrong with asphalt? Nothing, that's what's wrong with asphalt.
DN Swag but still better than foil hats
Vanessa H just because they have being toxic in common does not mean they are basically the same. they have completely different formulas and different physical properties lol. but true very toxic. but only when wet. you can smell and lick asphalt all day after it is 100% cured. not on a sunny day though. wouldn't recommend it.
DN Swag He did talk about them using a different kind of plastic, mentioning that it loses most of the features it would be advertised as having. Did you make your comment without actually watching the entire thing? He even, for the sake of the argument, imagined that there was some plastic that was durable enough to do the job.
Do you have any idea how much a 50 yards segment would cost? Do not forget underlying work that probably has to be done in reinforced concrete to avoid segments to break?
this idea has merits i think,they could always use this to make private roads,or bicycle roads etc, ofc the idea of pipelines bellow it like the video demonstrates is ludicrus
"Oh gee, where to start.... Number one, nO"
damn I was about to type in N omegalul
all the answers in the FAQ sound like when you try to beef out an essay to get the word count up..."we believe in the feasibility of the idea but more research will have to be done to determine if the idea is feasible in practice."
they'll just build solar roadway bridges above the plastic roads to protect it from sunlight
uh.. solar road ways are made outta plastic... they're see through eh....
@@harleyme3163 they are made from glass
@@shiinondogewalker2809 how about informing your self a little bit
Also the Production of solar panels causes more damage then a coal power plant
@@julius855 where am I misinformed?
They will have one trillion oompa loompas holding umbrella to make sure the road is dry
So you can scratch that type of plastic with your teeth? Meaning teeth are stronger....
Time to make roadways made out of enamel.
ktyfiend there's like 7 billion people! When they die we can recycle their teeth!1!1!1
ktyfiend - Please don't do that. You'll drive up the price of solar frikkin teeth implants.
yeah but cavities would happen unless it was brushed everyday
Robert Dicke IDEA replace all tires with advanced solar powered toothbrushes
You guys heard of the Grush? It's a gaming toothbrush (dunkey did a good video on it). I suggest we just add solar panels and use asphalt instead of plastic in its construction. Therefore, it's simple, efficient, low cost, easy to construct, easy to repair, contributing to circular economy and sustainable.
HI Phil, having driven over 150 MPH (280z w/200+ rated tires) the thought of plastic road makes my blood run cold! Not only would it rip the road up, my tires might even melt the road lol WOW!
These people are the best and brightest?
This is the first video i have watched from you and im already subscribed.
condom based roads: coming next, to a sexually active city near you...
Finally, edible roads
Get an STD just for walking barefoot.
hehehe
They even cum prefilled with adhesive...
Finally the hot singles in my area can reach me 😊😊
Okay, what the actual fuck.
Asphalt is already the non-plus-ultra (as we would say in Germany).
It is cheap, versatile, durable, gives tons of grip to cars with rubber tires, isn't as prone to cause aqua-planing, safe to handle, doesnt hurt the environment, can be reused/recycled, etc...
Why would you replace it?
Nec plus ultra. :p
It doesn't have Bluetooth connectivity and an app.
xXYannuschXx Das heißt "Nonplusultra" und ist ein Substantiv, du Spaten. -.ğ
xXYannuschXx it is not durable at all
Nick Henry More durable than plastic.
I'm sure I've heard that exact "circular economy" spiel on another one of these things 😂
So I never saw the promo video, but I thought I saw something somewhere that left me with the impression of using recycled plastic as an alternative aggregate. I appreciate this breakdown on exactly how and why that would fail miserably (I'd been wondering :) ). Thanks!
Asbestos is a wonder material. Let's use that one.
Christos Bakolas - I was thinking of crowd sourcing a machine that crushes asbestos to a fine powder, we can mix it with lead and coloring and give it to poor children so they have coloring paints to make art in third world countries.
Asbestos is actually a great material... Just sucks for the people breathing it 30 years later...
YOu can't write asbestos without best! As - best - os
Oh yea, great Idea and if we die of loung cancer.... everybody dies someday hehehe. Asbestos is always the (as) best (os) methode.
Blah b - I wouldn't worry so much about the fine details. If we all huff the dust together at the same time then we're all playing the same game with the same rules :-p
Might as well build them out of Lego. It’s even more modular!
Ya but how would I walk barefoot on roads
@@mr.contentdeleted9660 *L E G O S H O E S.*
TOASTER
Or ya know, just normal shoes
@@elitaylor8710 no *L E G O S H O E S*
At least the grip would be better ;)
Absolutely, I was thinking durning the animation of the truck installing the modular road panels, what about a curve? Are the manufacturers going to have a wide range of molds for all the different degree turns?
Exactly. "Prefabricated"...and they only show straight rectangles, on a completely flat ground.
If you break on one of those plastic roads when it rains the friction will be non existing. Like driving on ice making it dangerous to drive like 5 seconds behind cars. Will cause so many traffic accidents as breaking length will be so longer.
IRL Hot-wheels
hahahah
Solar roadways: "It's like freakin tron out there!"
Plastic roadways: "It's like freakin Hot-wheels out there!"
Imagine driving your car through one of those double wheel projecters that make the cars go. Scary!!!
The ignorance of people and the ability of people to think they have a valid opinion on a subject they know nothing of just astounds me. I work in road construction and I can tell everyone who has commented negatively on here about Thunderfoot's video is just plain wrong. All of his points are correct and quite valid.
One of the things he touched upon a bit was friction or roughness of the surface. This is an extremely important property of the road surface to prevent accidents. In the industry we call this driving layer the surface friction course. The rougher the surface the faster vehicles stop when braking (ie. shorter distance travelled) and the less likely a car is going to slide and hydroplane in wet conditions. We actually test the frictional properties (ie. skid resistance) of a given surface course by testing the aggregates since they provide this property. What's more important than the initial frictional value of a given material is the frictional value it retains over time due to wear from vehicular traffic. This value is called the polished stone value or PSV. So, even if an aggregate starts off with a decent frictional value, it may be a soft aggregate - such as limestone - and it will polish or wear smooth. This is very bad. Other aggregates will wear rough and their frictional properties will largely be maintained. Some aggregates have other interesting properties that help them resist polishing. For example, gneiss has a rough macrotexture, so bits of crystalline pieces break off during wearing, thus allowing the surface to retain a rough texture. There is a drawback in that gneiss is quite fragile and wears faster compared to something like traprock which is both hard (wears slowly) and wears rough (resists polishing).
I hope some appreciate this extra, more in-depth information.
This man speaks the truth.
I mean i have no experience in road construction but just being in my 30's and having to build foundations for walls and driveway at my home address is enough to realize that there idea is some what stupid. i thought you could debunk this with just common sense but i guess not lol.
@@solid_snake9708 This man also speaks the truth
Jeremy Chunick Dunning Kruger disease my man....it’s an epidemic in the 21st century...and spreading
@@azraelbatosi This man also speaks the truth
Fantastic analysis, I actually learned quite a bit.
Thanks :)
I'm familiar with this concept for a long time now and there's another problem that hasn't been addressed. Getting all the lock tabs to click into each other without breaking off! Ya know, just like my matchbox and hot wheels tracks!
Let's wait for plastic skyscrapers. I don't think jet fuel can melt plastic beams.
Walpo
Yes! It's gonna be a plast!
Solar freaking plastic hyper (loop) sky scraper hanging from an asteroid!!!!!?
no it cant.
Trust me, I'm wearing a organic tin hat
Ethan R You forgot that it's also powered by thorium.
Next we'll make plastic freakin' airplanes!!
See, this is why they should make roads out of unicorn horn powder.
not if PETA gets to them first
Dear god. You're threatening genocide now?
Hey Shining Armor your future high councilor is here.
I'm gonna buy shares in unicorn horn. I will make millions :)
gonna be honest des, pleasantly surprised to see you here
This gives a whole new meaning to the Vine: "Road work ahead....uh yeah, I sure hope it does!"
@Dc Account well, it was a video done on vine, so yeah.
its crazy how damaging a singular EMPTY semi would do XD
Why the fuck is everyone trying to reinvent the road?
MrTweej
For free money from clueless dipshits.
MrTweej because everyone already failed to reinvent the wheel
MrTweej To make money.
MrTweej good money in monopolising a pillar of civilisation.
Cause they graduated from creation college...
roadways made of out of compressed powdered alcohol are the future, mark my words!
all hold together by energy healing, scientifically proven with a thermal camera
And it will make many more jobs, as energy healers must stay on each side of the road 24/7!
LU39 * chisel a chunk of road and soak it.
It rains, and the road dissolves. Hobos start drinking the mess. Hey! At least there will be more road repair jobs!
I was listening to this in the background while doing some stuff and got fkn jumpscared by the bottle explosion
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO! I discovered this channel last night, and I'm watching every video since then. Also, on a side note, here in Germany, they recycle the asphalt. And still plastic can be made into bitumen by an advanced process known as pyrolysis
There's a lot of BS science out there. Maybe I should start selling a highly conductive metal with anti-bacterial properties to people. I'll charge $30 per 100 grams. Then I will send them 3 pre-1982 pennies.
Fucking genius
Steven Baumann brilliant
Why don't you have a Nobel prize already? Lol
I am not kidding but copper fits that description
Oremo Oremo That was the joke.
Just make the road out of the same material used to create the Nintendo 64 console, Nintendium.
That shit's unbreakable.
D Shade
Or better yet, the Nokia 3310's material.
D Shade no, we must make it out of stalinium
Better yet use diamonds! It's hard, can provide wonderful traction, and can be made with recycled rings to make it economical!
we should use "Cykanium"
LEGO roads
It's hard enough and has friction surface that won't fade away
Okay now when you make a road
you put discarded construction items into an overpowered grinder.
Why is it they can't take a small amount of ground up plastic and glass from the land fills and add it to the mix?
" Our new construction method takes plastic and glass ment for the land fills
and grinds them into dust. We add this dust to the discarded rock and stone material
before we add our bonding agent. Our roads are saving the world one section at a time."
One follow up question Why is it road side billboards don't have solar panels on them?
I really liked the concept of making small prebuilt accommodation blocks made of reinforced plastic