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donttread
06-28-2014, 04:26 PM
Check out "solar freakin roadways" on you-tube

Peter1469
06-28-2014, 04:41 PM
Sounds like a good plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

Would like to see costs. Also we need better battery tech to store excess.

Green Arrow
06-28-2014, 05:06 PM
Now there's a U.S. infrastructure program we need to try.

donttread
06-29-2014, 10:49 AM
Sounds like a good plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

Would like to see costs. Also we need better battery tech to store excess.

I'm certain the cost would be very high, but then again so are the cost of playing world police for exxon glory

Peter1469
06-29-2014, 11:50 AM
I'm certain the cost would be very high, but then again so are the cost of playing world police for exxon glory

The costs should also pay for themselves over time. Especially if maintenance is low.

The Sage of Main Street
06-29-2014, 01:43 PM
Sounds like a good plan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU Would like to see costs. Also we need better battery tech to store excess. Pollution is antiseptic. It kills harmful bacteria and viruses. If we go completely solar, we will live in a world of plagues. It is significant that this add is targeted towards childish degenerates who think they are hip and revolutionary.

Peter1469
06-29-2014, 02:13 PM
Pollution is antiseptic. It kills harmful bacteria and viruses. If we go completely solar, we will live in a world of plagues. It is significant that this add is targeted towards childish degenerates who think they are hip and revolutionary.

The hard core Green types must be frighten of you. And your ideas. :smiley:

Green Arrow
06-29-2014, 02:36 PM
The hard corps Green types must be frighten of you. And your ideas. :smiley:

Hell, anybody who has ever lived in a heavily polluted area vs. an almost completely unpolluted area should be terrified of his absurd pseudo-science. There was nothing healthy about the extreme pollution I lived with for twenty years in California, and anyone who claims it is healthy is a fool.

Peter1469
06-29-2014, 02:52 PM
Now, now. Foolishness is not the only possible cause..... :smiley:


Hell, anybody who has ever lived in a heavily polluted area vs. an almost completely unpolluted area should be terrified of his absurd pseudo-science. There was nothing healthy about the extreme pollution I lived with for twenty years in California, and anyone who claims it is healthy is a fool.

Green Arrow
06-29-2014, 02:55 PM
Now, now. Foolishness is not the only possible cause..... :smiley:

I do feel bad for him. I do. But pollution is one of those topics I'm super passionate about, because I went from being a sickly, coughing, wheezy child to a healthy young man just by moving from heavily polluted California to almost no pollution Virginia/Tennessee. My mom was asthmatic until they moved to Tennessee, now she doesn't have asthma anymore.

donttread
06-29-2014, 04:34 PM
The costs should also pay for themselves over time. Especially if maintenance is low.

My son questions how they would hold up in tough climate areas , especially with bitter cold but we have to start somewhere

Peter1469
06-29-2014, 04:52 PM
My son questions how they would hold up in tough climate areas , especially with bitter cold but we have to start somewhere

Right. If you have to opt out in the really cold climates so what. Put them everywhere else.

But if I remember from the video, they had plans for heating the surfaces in cold climates.

Guerilla
06-29-2014, 05:05 PM
http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/26468-Solar-roadways Here (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/26468-Solar-roadways Here) is a thread with some more in depth information on how they work and who made them.

Here's the article for it (http://singularityhub.com/2014/05/22/following-the-solar-brick-road-to-clean-energy-and-smart-roadways/).

Peter1469
06-29-2014, 05:07 PM
I wonder if they can be shielded from an EMP event?

Guerilla
06-29-2014, 05:08 PM
The article tells how the creator tested it in cold Idaho climate.


The empty demonstration lot, located in chilly Northern Idaho, manages to pump out 3,600 watts.

edit- And yes I think they did say they figured out how to melt the snow off.

donttread
06-30-2014, 07:29 AM
The hard core Green types must be frighten of you. And your ideas. :smiley:

What ideas? Is there a decoder ring no one gave me?

The Sage of Main Street
06-30-2014, 09:15 AM
Hell, anybody who has ever lived in a heavily polluted area vs. an almost completely unpolluted area should be terrified of his absurd pseudo-science. There was nothing healthy about the extreme pollution I lived with for twenty years in California, and anyone who claims it is healthy is a fool.I'm not advocating extreme pollution, so try some honest way to justify your primitive, mindless, and superstitious worship of nature.

Common Sense
06-30-2014, 09:50 AM
That's pretty cool...

Don
07-01-2014, 06:30 AM
Like all new technology first prove it works, then start using it on a small scale to get a market and reduce manufacturing costs. Remember when "wide screen" televisions first came out? What was the biggest, 42 inches? They were heavy and thick and cost about $25,000. Rich people bought them and helped create the economy of scale. The technology rapidly improved and the costs dropped. That trend continues to this day.

donttread
07-01-2014, 08:34 AM
Right. If you have to opt out in the really cold climates so what. Put them everywhere else.

But if I remember from the video, they had plans for heating the surfaces in cold climates.

Yes, they should melt snow but here we could easily get feet of snow followed by a 30 below night. Small section testing would be needed