Solar panels that you can drive, park, and walk on. They melt snow and... cut greenhouse gases by 75-percent?!!!
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Solar Roadways
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Re: Solar Roadways
Communism!
JK... seems pretty cool. I wonder if it's the best use of limited environmental resources, but the more ideas the merrier.
JK... seems pretty cool. I wonder if it's the best use of limited environmental resources, but the more ideas the merrier.
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Re: Solar Roadways
Solar Frickin' Roadways Debunked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4
http://forum.dansimmons.com/ubbthreads/ ... Post155852
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H901KdXgHs4
http://forum.dansimmons.com/ubbthreads/ ... Post155852
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Re: Solar Roadways
Sheer fantasy. Benko's video does a great job of explaining in detail the multitude of reasons why this idea is hubristic lunacy envisioned by ignorant, clueless dreamers without anywhere near enough subject matter knowledge. What they're trying to do is akin to building a bridge out of cheese. Sure, maybe you could do it… but it's the least efficient way to build a bridge or use cheese!
I love the point about it being a 1,000% better idea to simply build roofs over the roads and put the solar panels there. Now that's an idea. ...that's already being implemented in sunny places, like the Costco I shop at.
I love the point about it being a 1,000% better idea to simply build roofs over the roads and put the solar panels there. Now that's an idea. ...that's already being implemented in sunny places, like the Costco I shop at.
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Re: Solar Roadways
Ideas that "mean well" or seem like a good idea/should work, but don't in reality.
Now where have we seen that before [cough cough]?
Now where have we seen that before [cough cough]?
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Re: Solar Roadways
Laissez Faire capitalism?Benko wrote: Ideas that "mean well" or seem like a good idea/should work, but don't in reality.
Now where have we seen that before [cough cough]?
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Note to self: throw out drawings of camembert bridge, a.k.a. Bridge to Camembert.Pointedstick wrote: What they're trying to do is akin to building a bridge out of cheese.
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Re: Solar Roadways
But what if it really works? Why not just try it on every road nation wide and find out? We can just print a bunch of money to do it and stimulate the whole economy. Right?
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I kinda think it would be more productive if we spent all that money on BORDER SECURITY instead. <dryly>Reub wrote: But what if it really works? Why not just try it on every road nation wide and find out? We can just print a bunch of money to do it and stimulate the whole economy. Right?
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Re: Solar Roadways
Why not do both? Who would it hurt? 
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The enviro crowd would be up in arms from all the paper that would have to be printedReub wrote: Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
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Re: Solar Roadways
Mountaineer,Mountaineer wrote:The enviro crowd would be up in arms from all the paper that would have to be printedReub wrote: Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
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Man you conservatives are utterly foolish straw-man posing baffoons...
Us liberals would be up in arms at the increased carbon-footprint-increasing, ozone-hole-growing, smog-inducing power-consumption that the adjustment would take by the computers of the banking system...
It's 2014... get with the program.
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Ooops! I'm so behind the times. I'll try to do better .... promise with a pinky lock?moda0306 wrote:Mountaineer,Mountaineer wrote:The enviro crowd would be up in arms from all the paper that would have to be printedReub wrote: Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
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Man you conservatives are utterly foolish straw-man posing baffoons...
Us liberals would be up in arms at the increased carbon-footprint-increasing, ozone-hole-growing, smog-inducing power-consumption that the adjustment would take by the computers of the banking system...
It's 2014... get with the program.
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