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[J T]

Also not gaming-related, but SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS. I contributed to this. I think it's a great idea.

That shit is VISIONARY! I hope this catches on! I love it.

That has to be one of the worst ideas ever. Within about a year the roads would be covered with tire tracks and render them useless. Would they even be able to support the weight of traffic at a red light even? I'm no engineer but it seems like as it stands now the technology isn't there to even support it.

Worst ideas? So like it ranks as worse than the Holocaust? or a decision to start a meth habit? or whoever came up with the TV show Small Wonder? I don't think you know enough about bad ideas to judge what is a bad idea. I think listening to your opinions is a bad idea.

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That has to be one of the worst ideas ever. Within about a year the roads would be covered with tire tracks and render them useless. Would they even be able to support the weight of traffic at a red light even? I'm no engineer but it seems like as it stands now the technology isn't there to even support it.

Worst ideas? So like it ranks as worse than the Holocaust? or a decision to start a meth habit? or whoever came up with the TV show Small Wonder? I don't think you know enough about bad ideas to judge what is a bad idea. I think listening to your opinions is a bad idea.

Worse than the idea to poop in my own shoes? To throw these poop-shoes at a black-belt in ass-kicking? The idea that any sports franchise is greater than the New York Yankees?

I'll tell you what sounds like a good idea, and it's pooping in YOUR shoes, good sir.

SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS FOREVER

[flex wood]

It is a terrible idea, one of the worst on kick starter. A cars tires are made of rubber and will leave tracks that will cover the panels add that in with the soot and dirt from an engines emissions they will be completely covered and need replaced in a short amount of time. No thought went into how much it's going to cost to do a full clean up on them or to replace every single panel. The tests that they have done haven't been in real world settings they have just put solar panels on the ground. They have put no research into these things at all except some small proof of concept stuff to show that they would be able to collect energy from them. So yea I'd rather see wind mills at traffic lights then a road made from solar panels that will probably have no traction in rain.

Then there's the fact that only about 40 percent of solar companies will actually talk about how toxic their panels are.

Just because something can help the environment shouldn't automatically make it good without question. There are draw backs to everything and this has way to many for me to even think about taking it seriously and not just some pipe dream to give solar companies more money after what the government has already given them.

If you want a good idea about asphalt look at NC, they use recycled tires mixed in to help with the expansion contracting of the heat and cold to help stop potholes. This also gives better traction and makes for a smoother, quieter ride.

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It is a terrible idea, one of the worst on kick starter. A cars tires are made of rubber and will leave tracks that will cover the panels add that in with the soot and dirt from an engines emissions they will be completely covered and need replaced in a short amount of time. No thought went into how much it's going to cost to do a full clean up on them or to replace every single panel. The tests that they have done haven't been in real world settings they have just put solar panels on the ground. They have put no research into these things at all except some small proof of concept stuff to show that they would be able to collect energy from them. So yea I'd rather see wind mills at traffic lights then a road made from solar panels that will probably have no traction in rain.

Then there's the fact that only about 40 percent of solar companies will actually talk about how toxic their panels are.

Just because something can help the environment shouldn't automatically make it good without question. There are draw backs to everything and this has way to many for me to even think about taking it seriously and not just some pipe dream to give solar companies more money after what the government has already given them.

If you want a good idea about asphalt look at NC, they use recycled tires mixed in to help with the expansion contracting of the heat and cold to help stop potholes. This also gives better traction and makes for a smoother, quieter ride.

Still waiting to hear what you think about me pooping in your shoes though

[flex wood]

enjoy the pipe dream.

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enjoy the pipe dream.

awwwwwwwwwww it was worth asking I guess

[flex wood]

enjoy the pipe dream.

awwwwwwwwwww it was worth asking I guess

I was talking about the pipe dream of the solar roads. I brought up some serious points and design flaws in the idea and you and JT just seemed to get mad that I thought it was stupid while ignoring everything else.

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I was talking about the pipe dream of the solar roads. I brought up some serious points and design flaws in the idea and you and JT just seemed to get mad that I thought it was stupid while ignoring everything else.

Ahh, I see. Nah, I just got mad because you started off saying "That has to be one of the worst ideas ever". I understand that you may very well think that, but there are far nicer ways to get your point across. Starting with such hard-and-fast negativity tends to get people a little riled up. How would you feel if you posted something you thought was cool and someone did that to you? Regardless of how plausible it is, I think it's a cool idea, and I don't appreciate the needless negativity.

Now, you were talking about my "pipe dream of the solar roads" - does that mean that the shoe-pooping isn't a pipe dream?

[MrPopo]

That shit is VISIONARY! I hope this catches on! I love it.

That has to be one of the worst ideas ever. Within about a year the roads would be covered with tire tracks and render them useless. Would they even be able to support the weight of traffic at a red light even? I'm no engineer but it seems like as it stands now the technology isn't there to even support it.

Worst ideas? So like it ranks as worse than the Holocaust? or a decision to start a meth habit? or whoever came up with the TV show Small Wonder? I don't think you know enough about bad ideas to judge what is a bad idea. I think listening to your opinions is a bad idea.

I am disappointed JT. The best you can rebut with is a "literally alert"?

[SpaceBooger]

Some stuff about the solar roads from their site:

How will you keep the panels clean and how much power do you lose when they are dirty?

We had the opportunity to conduct a unique dirt test recently. Our drought conditions had become quite bad and everything on our property was covered in dirt/dust, including two identical solar panels that we have mounting on our roof. We decided to clean only one of them and then see how the outputs compared.
After one of the panels was cleaned,we monitored their performance throughout the day. It was sunny that day, and we learned that the clean panel produced less than 9-percent more power than the dirt covered panel. So even if we find that it's difficult to keep the panels clean, it may not be the issue many expect.

How are you going to handle skid marks from tires? Won't that block your sunlight?

We weren't able to officially test for that during our Phase II funding from the FHWA as it wasn't in the budget. However, we wondered about that too, so we conducted an experiment. It's not very scientific, but here is what we did:
We took a rubber soled shoe and scuffed a section of concrete and a section of our glass. We used a bike tire to create a skid mark on both the concrete and the glass.
The rubber on the glass came off with the simple wipe of a finger: it didn't stick well to the glass.