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because you really needed a video to tell you that trying to put costly panels as roads is not a good idea in the huge expanse that is the U.S.
I've only watched the first 10 minutes of the video, but there's a lot of piss poor arguments in it already that were clearly half-assedly researched in order to release the video quick. The cost bit about the glass is totally ****ing retarded the way he calculated it, using the price for one-off panels to calculate the cost of all the panels, with no consideration of the fact that should the government step in to make these, or hire companies to build such a massive infrastructure, these panels would no longer be so specialized as to cost so much due to improved processes and buying power for materials.
I thought that this counter argurment was quite interesting. Definetely gives me second thoughts.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a HORRENDOUS idea, but just impractical especially given the current level of technology to cost.
I've only watched the first 10 minutes of the video, but there's a lot of piss poor arguments in it already that were clearly half-assedly researched in order to release the video quick.
I don't think that the technology cost will be the only problem. Maintenance and nature catastrophees. I mean, what if a flood occurs? If all of the solar panels are connected together to transport electricity, then all of the energy we produced in the local area would be gone. And earthquakes. You've seen the damage that can be done on asphalt, now think about what it could do to tiles. And the amount of energy that these tiles will recieve of years of cars driving 100mph on them. And then we have to take in account, that we have to replace all of the broken solar panels. And in the meanwhile we are replacing those solar panels, they won't produce any energy, and they will cost a shit ton of money to replace in the long run.I wouldn't necessarily call it a HORRENDOUS idea, but just impractical especially given the current level of technology to cost.
I rather like the suggestion at the end of the "Are they Real?" video. Just build solar roofing for parking lots.
Since were somewhat on the topic of energy, would anybody like to hear about my lord and savior Thorium?
I don't think that the technology cost will be the only problem. Maintenance and nature catastrophees. I mean, what if a flood occurs? If all of the solar panels are connected together to transport electricity, then all of the energy we produced in the local area would be gone. And earthquakes. You've seen the damage that can be done on asphalt, now think about what it could do to tiles. And the amount of energy that these tiles will recieve of years of cars driving 100mph on them. And then we have to take in account, that we have to replace all of the broken solar panels. And in the meanwhile we are replacing those solar panels, they won't produce any energy, and they will cost a shit ton of money to replace in the long run.
Dude, do you know how expensive that would be?Any reason why we're not funding or researching a Dark Fusion Reactor?
And the "environmental" issue is a very basic, very solvable engineering problem. We already have transformers sitting up on ****ing lightning rods with hundreds of kilovolts passing through them in basically just a metal box. If anything, having multiple hexes worth of transport paths will render power outages a thing of the past. If one or two or three hexes fail, the electricity will still have a dozen paths around those failed hexes.
The plain and simple fact is
You can't hack into a piece of asphalt laying on the ground nor could you use it for terrorism
Bear in mind, the prices were simple estimations/assumptions to cover the whole road network. I really doubt that they will bump the price of the solar panels below 100 dollars though. But if they manage to do that, then it's a clear win.)
p.s. Oh yeah, and I apoligise for not even reading the whole FAQ myself. Made some half baked agurments from me.
You hear stories of people trying to hack the CIA mainframe and all that kind of stuff
I mean, clean energy, man. How can anyone argue against an investment in harnessing the power of the GIANT BALL OF FIRE above us, which has been there longer than we have.
Replacing individually damaged hexes of roads will be easier, faster, and cheaper than redoing a whole stretch of asphalt. Hexes will allow very focused and small repairs which isn't possible with asphalt without just doing patch jobs, which if you live in CT, you know only delays a whole redo of the road and makes the road shitty to drive on due to inconsistencies.A earthquake that split the road in half, is not just a problem that can be fixed with a little bit of engineering. And I doubt that a serious flood, can be stopped from doing damage to the hexes. And do you see what happens to the asphalt every year? They have to be maintained all the time, because it will slowly start to detoriate and break, no matter what material you use. I just can't imagine there is a predictable outcome for the aging. Either it stays okay for a long time, or it just breaks down in the matter of a quarter to a half year. And even if the price of these things go down 50 times, it will cost over 400 billion dollars. Even if it goes down 100 times, then it will still cost 200 billion dollars. That's a lot of money, and then the maintenance just bumps up the price.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/12/news/economy/infrastructure-spending/Funding for the Department of Transportation was $73 billion in 2012. That number includes federal capital spending on things such as roads, bridges, passenger rail, buses, waterways, ports and aviation, as well as some operating costs. It represents about 30% to 40% of what the country spends on transportation infrastructure each year, with the rest coming from state, local or private sources.
Solar energy will depleate the sun!!!1!111 It has to be true because I read it on a fancy article!!111!!1!!!
http://nationalreport.net/solar-panels-drain-suns-energy-experts-say/
Replacing individually damaged hexes of roads will be easier, faster, and cheaper than redoing a whole stretch of asphalt. Hexes will allow very focused and small repairs which isn't possible with asphalt without just doing patch jobs, which if you live in CT, you know only delays a whole redo of the road and makes the road shitty to drive on due to inconsistencies.
As for the cost...
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/12/news/economy/infrastructure-spending/
Which means the budget for 2012 roadways was $180 billion to $250 billion as is. Thats for roads that don't produce electricity, have shitty paint on them that wears away making accidents more likely, and don't melt snow (which costs many New England states around $100-$200 million dollars each to do each year).
people with EHS (Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity) get very sick from very small doses of electromagnetic radiation.
He's really getting the price for LEDs from Amazon? That is going to be way higher than the actual production cost would be.
Krynn, a Dark Fusion Reactor might cost a lot today, but in 5 years it could be less than a Big Mac.