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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways http://solarroadways.com/faq.shtml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU These people have prototypes for making solar powered roads that they believe could replace all the asphalt in America. They're hexagonal pieces that interlock and could provide led lights for creating markers and lines and somehow create a decentralized grid for wifi and poo poo for future cars and other crap. They say they are testing heating elements to melt snow which either be expensive or create a ton of slush, right? But it's like... Really stupid??? Why would you wanna build solar panels on a road, the thing that's so heavily abused and beaten that it couldn't possibly be cost efficient?? Why not just side walks or something where you don't have 2 ton cars driving on it every day? What about night time? Dirt and dust? Places where it actually snows? They're like we could test it in parking lots first. Yes, let's put solar panels in a parking lot, where there are cars covering the panels 80% of the time. Some dude calculated that it'd cost 20 trillion to implement across the United States, not even mentioning loving maintenance.
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cant wait for the first pileup to totally gently caress everything
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May 28, 2014 20:05
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WElcome to the New Age of Fucktard, OP
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways my friend had the same idea with the solar panels and the parking thing except he added you could use the blocking of the panels to tell which spaces are occupied, an incredibly cost efficient measure that would surely make up for how dumb everything else is solar panels just seem to bring out the stupid in people because it seems to be a shortahand for amazing future technology that will solve all of our problems
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May 28, 2014 20:06
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idk maybe we shhould focus on having roads that arent falling apart before we start implementing stupid poo poo for TED Talk people
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May 28, 2014 20:07
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Yeah that's my point. How loving often are They fixing pot holes and repaving poo poo? Now multiply that price by 10,000 dollars.
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May 28, 2014 20:08
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I don't care how awesome their glass plastic polymer is it isn't gonna be as good as loving chewed up rocks and tar
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May 28, 2014 20:08
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Remember how the USA spent all that stimulus money on infrastructure projects and solar and then didn't make any solar panels or fix any roads haha. Good times
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May 28, 2014 20:09
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stupid SCIENCE IS AWESOME posts on facebook ,ted talks and uproxx have taken a terrible toll on our society
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May 28, 2014 20:10
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I'm an idea man, someone else can figure out how to make it work 
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May 28, 2014 20:10
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not even just potholes &tc. civil engineers keep putting out reports that say stuff to the effect of: lol I wouldnt drive over any given bridge in america right now if I were you.
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May 28, 2014 20:10
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sounds dumb. Maybe we should work on roads that don't fall apart after a year, instead.
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May 28, 2014 20:12
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We already had this thread. It was a dumb idea then and its a dumb idea now.
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May 28, 2014 20:12
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I'm sure this will work very well in the northern US, where for like a third of the year the skies are replaced by a single unending cloud and the streets covered in snow. I am sure that the State of Michigan will appreciate the obvious cost benefits from such a thing, such as
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Rhonyn Peacemaker posted:We already had this thread. It was a dumb idea then and its a dumb idea now. I wanna see it not because I don't believe you but because I wanna see it
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May 28, 2014 20:13
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The idea occurs to me. Don't build solar roads. Build a solar roof over existing roads.
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May 28, 2014 20:13
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The worst thing is my roommate thinks it's the best thing ever and it's like use some critical thinking, Jfc
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May 28, 2014 20:14
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like why are they on the loving roads even if you do invent this awesome polymer or whatever to protect the panels why the gently caress are you going trough all the effort of protecting your panels from being crushed constantly in the first place? what possible benefit could this have it really blows my mind up that they made 1.5 million dollars
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May 28, 2014 20:14
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Roads are dirty.
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May 28, 2014 20:15
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we should make roads from the bones of our slain enemies to inspire fear in our populace
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america is doomer
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May 28, 2014 20:16
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Yeah, like dirty panels reduce the efficiency by a TON and they would already barely work for latitudes in the north. Not to mention where is all the electricity going at night? Magic super capacitors which don't exist?
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Yeah, like dirty panels reduce the efficiency by a TON and they would already barely work for latitudes in the north. well if the infographic is anything to go by, into mooses
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May 28, 2014 20:18
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now we've got solar powered electric mooses roaming the wild, arcing lighting off trees and hikers. great job science.
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May 28, 2014 20:19
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babypolis posted:you could use the blocking of the panels to tell which spaces are occupied, which does what exactly?
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May 28, 2014 20:19
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we should just make everything that requires energy out of solar panels
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May 28, 2014 20:20
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its such a terrible idea that falls apart after giving it a single second of thought i should really set up one of these scams myself. it seems all you need to get a cool mill or so these days is some tech idea that sounds cool to idiots sold with a nice faux anticorporate/enviromentalist spiel thrown in RaIp posted:which does what exactly? tell you if its full so you dont have to hire an attendant i guess. hey i never said it was good
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May 28, 2014 20:23
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my self driving google car charges its battery off the solar road, leaving me free to mix up a batch of soylent on the way to work.
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May 28, 2014 20:24
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Stealing pavement has never been more profitable.
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May 28, 2014 20:26
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We should really be considering getting all these people hooked up to the grid before we spend more money on solar energy.  
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May 28, 2014 20:28
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most road construction is already hilariously inept and/or corrupt depending on the region. seriously if we can't even make a normal road right, this is just pure failure on top of the if-the-world-was-perfect practical issues
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May 28, 2014 20:29
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Doctor Butts posted:sounds dumb. Those exist, but they require more upfront cost and welp.
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May 28, 2014 20:34
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways I thought the idea was to use the blacktop as a heat source, since asphalt absorbs a loving ton of heat anyway Not actually make the roads out of solar panels
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May 28, 2014 20:39
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the video seems goon-produced; which one of you'se is shilling this poo poo?
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May 28, 2014 20:41
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solar FREAKIN' roadways
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May 28, 2014 20:43
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Just put nuclear reactors under the road, dumbs.
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May 28, 2014 20:44
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Yeah, they talk about that in one of their videos about how it'd reduce the heating in cities and stuff due to asphalt. It's all really quaint and nice but too bad we live in harsh reality.
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itd be a laff and a half to watch the US try and do this. yeah we farmed a contract out to Halli-Brown & Root and wouldnt you know the roads make cars catch fire and all the power generated goes into a privately owned grid that gets sold back to the city at a %500 mark up. great success.
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I have a better idea - put a wind turbine on every butt. Farts will make the blades turn and that will generate electricity! Then people just need to plug themselves into the grid - just take the plug and put it in your butt. Then you deliver the electricity and get paid in buttcoins.
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babypolis posted:its such a terrible idea that falls apart after giving it a single second of thought My roommate mentioned it before I saw the video or anything and I immediately said "that sounds expensive and retarded." Turns out I was right.
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