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Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:21 pm
by MachineGhost
Solar panels that you can drive, park, and walk on. They melt snow and... cut greenhouse gases by 75-percent?!!!
http://www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:27 pm
by moda0306
Communism!
JK... seems pretty cool. I wonder if it's the best use of limited environmental resources, but the more ideas the merrier.
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:29 pm
by Benko
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:14 pm
by Pointedstick
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.
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:08 pm
by Benko
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]?
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:15 pm
by moda0306
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]?
Laissez Faire capitalism?
JK
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:17 pm
by dualstow
Pointedstick wrote:
What they're trying to do is akin to building a bridge out of cheese.
Note to self: throw out drawings of camembert bridge, a.k.a. Bridge to Camembert.
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:31 pm
by Reub
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?
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:47 am
by MachineGhost
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?
I kinda think it would be more productive if we spent all that money on BORDER SECURITY instead. <dryly>
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:35 pm
by Reub
Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:00 pm
by Mountaineer
Reub wrote:
Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
The enviro crowd would be up in arms from all the paper that would have to be printed
... Mountaineer
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 2:41 pm
by moda0306
Mountaineer wrote:
Reub wrote:
Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
The enviro crowd would be up in arms from all the paper that would have to be printed
... Mountaineer
Mountaineer,
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.
Re: Solar Roadways
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:00 pm
by Mountaineer
moda0306 wrote:
Mountaineer wrote:
Reub wrote:
Why not do both? Who would it hurt?
The enviro crowd would be up in arms from all the paper that would have to be printed
... Mountaineer
Mountaineer,
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.
Ooops! I'm so behind the times. I'll try to do better .... promise with a pinky lock?
... Mountaineer