No bots. No local multiplayer that I know of (but I have it on PC)

Small team sizes were great! I’d much rather play a tactical shooter with 3 friends on my team, than join an endless series of matches populated with 23 other people I’ll never see again and have zero motivation to even try to coordinate with.

I’d say the sound design is strong without being revolutionary. It definitely contributes to situational awareness and a sense of presence, but I never stopped and went “wow!”

I was pleasantly surprised by the single player campaign; it was longer and richer than the thin veneer of story over “multiplayer training” I expected it to be.

Shhhh, it's time for your medication.

One can figure out the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline, and the energy required to move a vehicle at a reasonable speed, and say "that sounds dangerous and un-necessary, but it might just work."

You're aware that photovoltaic cells are a poor return on the energy invested, right? It typically takes more energy to make them than they provide over their entire lifetimes.

"If we can travel to space reliably we ought to be able to figure out how to build a solar powered road. Period."

Because the idea of heating the road surface is plainly impractical. Poured concrete takes about 30 btu per cf per degree Fahrenheit, or at a rough approximation, one watt per square foot, assuming you're heating less than one inch thickness at the surface.

You realize that making these panels would take more power than they'd ever generate over their entire lifespans, right? How's that going to help our air quality?

Sure, I can totally see my city paying a few million dollars to cover a bike path with these things, so it can supply its own lighting.

Given anything like current technologies and photovoltaic efficiency, there's no way this road would create more electricity over its lifespan than it took to create in the first place.

@kenknutsen

Total solar energy striking the surface on a sunny day is likely to be in the ballpark of 50 watts per square foot. If the efficiency of these panels is over 20% I'll eat my hat.

My point is, the current state of the art can't make roofing materials with integrated solar panels that are cost effective.

While I don't disagree with you, national-scale infrastructure projects don't tend to get built if they're economy-cripplingly expensive.

"The idea is that by the time the panels are installed and working, they generate enough electricity to pay for the initial cost of installation."

Or maybe it's because fossil fuels are stable, portable, and extremely energy dense.

"2) Yep, there's no way that glass can possibly take more extreme forces than asphalt. That's why bullet-proof windows on cars are made of asphalt, and not glass. Oh, wait..."

The company I work for uses laser scribing to produce a monolithically integrated cell. (We make semi-amorphous micro-crystalline silicon on a flexible substrate).