Someone posted on Youtube that we should crowd fund a traditional panel system and offer it to the council for free to mount on top of the dunny block next to Solar Roadways.
The direct power output comparison would be hilarious!
I would love to see this. To add insult to injury have it power a small flood light that shines over the SR installation.

Also that snow melt pattern where it made holes is interesting, it looks like what happened is it did melt some snow under but it had an igloo effect where the heat stayed in and was allowed to accumulate. It eventually punched a hole in the top and all the heat escaped. It would probably never melt beyond that point if left alone. My city installed heated steps in front of city hall. A 300k+ installation. They still have to shovel it. People don't realize the amount of energy you need to melt snow. Rarely are you melting it from 0C either so those calculations are the absolutely best case scenario.
I was on my roof last year shovelling snow off it as there was like 6+ feet in some spots and I was starting to get worried about potential ice damming or even collapse in spring when it starts to melt and gets very heavy. I noticed where the roof vents were, there was a small hole in the snow leading all the way down to the vents where it essentially created a small tunnel. The heat loss from the house was accumulating there and eventually was able to melt a bit of snow to make an air path but once that air flow was established there was not enough heat to melt any further snow. At least that's my theory... It also made it easier to find the vents!
I have a 400w roof top install on my shed, but snow is a big issue. Well not snow, but ice. The minute we get freezing rain or wet snow and it turns into an ice/snow crust, the panels are caked for the rest of the year and the broom can't remove it. For regular snow I brush it off with a long brush. This year I just brought the battery inside and decided to not bother as it's not powering anything important anyway, but last year I was producing around 5w or so with the snow on it. I still managed to produce about 10kwh since the installation in fall that year. Since they are tilted I would probably have a slight chance of being able to deal with the ice using heat though. I want to experiment with heating the underside of the panels at some point, but I need a bigger battery bank and to setup a proper automation system. Probably do 4 golf cart batteries in a 24v configuration. My best bet would be to set it up so I can melt one panel at a time so I can concentrate energy to one. Then I would be producing a little bit and I can do the others. It would probably take a couple days to get to a point that they are clear again. For regular snow I would still be removing it manually, the heat would just be for when I get a crust that I can't remove.
The SR setup is hopeless at dealing with snow. On a road you would still need snow plows... imagine the damage a snow plow would make to those!