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> No idea on the cost of this

Driveway systems require about 35W per square foot when operating. Imagine a 36' wide road, and you're looking at around 6MW per mile.

That's a lot.



Add more power and have the roads charge the car like in F-Zero


It may be done if there's a cheap mass source of e.g. geothermal energy. IIRC the main streets on Reykjavik, Iceland are heated this way to avoid cleaning snow, but that's because they're pretty much sitting on top of volcanoes.




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