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fookin fooks fookin fookin ee oh, ya?
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As a Millennial I posted:how about everybody throw their phones in the garbage. jesus
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Mar 28, 2015 10:44
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i'm the ios developer who prefers to remain nameless
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Mar 28, 2015 13:47
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 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/prtyny/disco-dog-the-smartphone-controlled-led-dog-vest DISCO DOG
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Mar 29, 2015 19:59
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it's been a year since the solar roadways people installed their first solar
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Mar 29, 2015 20:07
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anthonypants posted:it's been a year since the solar roadways people installed their first solar The solar bike path in the netherlands broke already: https://twitter.com/PercyTwits/status/548754743557128192/photo/1
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Mar 29, 2015 20:12
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Nintendo Kid posted:The solar bike path in the netherlands broke already: https://twitter.com/PercyTwits/status/548754743557128192/photo/1 yes glass roads are a great idea
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Mar 29, 2015 20:14
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razorscooter posted:
THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS
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Mar 29, 2015 20:21
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Improbable Lobster posted:yes glass roads are a great idea 
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Mar 29, 2015 20:24
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they continue to be blissfully unaware of basic engineering problems on their facebook page post on the Canada runway crash: quote:Scary news yesterday which highlights the need to keep our airports snow and ice free. Our panels can do that, and we are looking forward to the opportunity to test that out at our local airport 
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Mar 29, 2015 20:26
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do glass roads have good traction when wet? i'd imagine so, otherwise this is a terrible idea
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Mar 29, 2015 20:30
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Beast of Bourbon posted:do glass roads have good traction when wet? i'd imagine so, otherwise this is a terrible idea no, which is why they have to be nobbly, which makes them noisy as gently caress and will absolutely destroy your tyres, so add "vastly increases wear and tear on consumables" to their amazing green credentials
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Mar 29, 2015 20:33
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Depends on texture. you can assume the texture will be: worn down to a fine polish
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Mar 29, 2015 20:33
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:Depends on texture. you can assume the texture will be: worn down to a fine polish
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Mar 29, 2015 20:34
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anthonypants posted:incidentally this will be good for the solar panels even better is when all the cars fly off them and crash, no more cars = no more emissions
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Mar 29, 2015 20:39
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Nagato posted:they continue to be blissfully unaware of basic engineering problems on their facebook page except that plane never touched the loving runway, and canada has had snow clearing technology for decades now they're called snow plows
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Mar 29, 2015 20:40
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Nagato posted:they continue to be blissfully unaware of basic engineering problems on their facebook page honestly i love how one of their main features is "instead of generating energy, you can dump massive amounts of power from the gird into them to heat them up and slowly clear ice"
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Mar 29, 2015 20:42
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joltteam/brik-case/description "This case is not officially licensed by LEGO, Mega Bloks, PixelBlocks, KRE-O, or K'NEX Bricks. It just happens to be compatible with all of them." oh, and we also use Marvel LEGO figures in the marketing material, no problem.
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Mar 29, 2015 20:43
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"we use recycled materials, unlike those wasteful roads!!" only 10% of the glass is recycled, none of the rare earth metal solar or electronic components are recycled, 99% of road asphalt is recycled for road resurfacing
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Mar 29, 2015 20:52
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theflyingexecutive posted:"we use recycled materials, unlike those wasteful roads!!" not to mention a ton of roads have things like old tires, plastic, and glass mixed into the substrate as part of the needed bulk, when such materials are too damaged or otherwise messed up to be normally recycled.
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Mar 29, 2015 21:14
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Nintendo Kid posted:not to mention a ton of roads have things like old tires, plastic, and glass mixed into the substrate as part of the needed bulk, when such materials are too damaged or otherwise messed up to be normally recycled. I didn't know this. that pretty cool.
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Mar 29, 2015 21:30
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Elder Postsman posted:I didn't know this. that pretty cool. yeah, and it's not even a new thing, the romans were using rubble from demolished buildings to build their road foundations from the very start. modern bitumen-based road surfaces are probably about the most recycled things on earth - to the point where a lot of road resurfacing projects are literally "dig up road, re-melt, add a touch more aggregate, re-lay" - sometimes even done as a continuous process in one vehicle.
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Mar 29, 2015 22:01
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So what happens over time other than a bit of deformation from heavy vehicles? Does the tar just eventually drain away from the surface and need to be mixed up again?
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Mar 29, 2015 22:24
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sund posted:So what happens over time other than a bit of deformation from heavy vehicles? Does the tar just eventually drain away from the surface and need to be mixed up again? around here we have what's known as swelling clays, which is basically if the earth was a giant sponge when it rains, the ground swells up and cracks stuff, when it's dry ( which it was for a very long time) it shrinks by a lot and cracks stuff even more
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Mar 29, 2015 22:42
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up here we have winter
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Mar 29, 2015 22:51
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sund posted:So what happens over time other than a bit of deformation from heavy vehicles? Does the tar just eventually drain away from the surface and need to be mixed up again? heat and freeze cycles will break up the road surface over time, and even just plain heat and chill cycles will break it up but more slowly. stuff like that is why roads get cracks and in worse cases potholes.
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Mar 30, 2015 00:50
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um, both things completely solved by SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS
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Mar 30, 2015 02:28
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theflyingexecutive posted:um, both things completely solved by SOLAR FREAKIN ROADWAYS i'm using my solar sidewalk to mine bitcoin! it's money from the sun!
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Mar 30, 2015 02:50
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Elder Postsman posted:I didn't know this. that pretty cool. Here in Alaska a local glass recycling plant started up recently that converts glass to "glass gravel", seems pretty popular with builders.
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Mar 30, 2015 03:55
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theflyingexecutive posted:"we use recycled materials, unlike those wasteful roads!!"
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Mar 30, 2015 04:27
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it's almost like, say, their product is fundamentally incompatible with recycled materials and no amount of handwaving can disguise this fact???
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Mar 30, 2015 07:36
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well it'll probably be okay for a parking lot, but nowhere near as good as a raised covering
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Mar 30, 2015 07:40
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but a parking lot would be filled in daytime hours, covering the panels the solar part of the project is great, the roadways part is complete garbage. hey! where should we put power generating surfaces? i know, far away from where people use electricity! should we do any cost feasibility studies? nope, certainly the cost of the raw glass alone won't be double the gdp of the country! but what about upkeep? surely a country that barely cares to repair surfaces made out of rocks, garbage, and oil waste would splurge to maintain billions of intricate electronic devices! theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Mar 30, 2015 07:57
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theflyingexecutive posted:but a parking lot would be filled in daytime hours, covering the panels
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Mar 30, 2015 08:07
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hey, won't thousands and thousands of vehicles a day grinding debris into glass scratch it and ruin its transmittance? no, because the tiny slab i built where i test 4-wheelers gingerly going 5 mph hasn't had any problems. do you really have leds that can be seen well enough in full daylight to replace traffic lines? yes they definitely exist and the fact that i only take pictures of them at night is purely coincidental. how would dynamically allocating handicapped spaces work anyways if the cars are already parked? if melting snow off roadways is so easy and cheap, why do only rich people have heated driveways? does glass have enough traction for a roadway? even when wet? oh yeah it's deffo safe, i told you about that 10 by 10 slab i have where i have obviously been testing highway speeds.
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Mar 30, 2015 08:09
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anthonypants posted:technically yeah, that's what parking lots are designed to do, but there's still a lot of empty parking lots in this country. and, if you own one of those parking lots and want to generate solar electricity and keep the snow off of your parking spots and illuminate them, a raised covering will be vastly cheaper and more effective i'd say covering roofs with solar panels is a more effective place to start than even parking lots. the whole snow issue is also moot because any place where persistent snow cover is an issue also has issues with the power generation potential of solar panels also, covering parking spots is a great way to reduce coverage of security cameras
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Mar 30, 2015 08:11
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rooftop panels can also help solve the issue of the inside of your car being the temperature of the sun after you leave it parked for a few hours
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Mar 30, 2015 08:14
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you can also use them to angle the panels towards the sun instead of lying them flat against the groundtheflyingexecutive posted:do you really have leds that can be seen well enough in full daylight to replace traffic lines? yes they definitely exist and the fact that i only take pictures of them at night is purely coincidental. they also unironically used this image of "Times Square" to demonstrate that you can still clearly see LED billboards in daylight anthonypants fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Mar 30, 2015 08:49
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gently caress it, just turn all the roads into giant mirrors to burn everything
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thinking of a Canadian winter, there is just no way you get enough energy from the seven hours of sunlight we might get if there's no cloud to melt the ten inches of snow that fell over night when it's like -20 out also you might notice that we don't remove snow by melting it. I wonder if there's a reason for that. oh yeah it's because once it's run off it freezes again and now you're stuck with a solid block of ice
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