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It's going to be like 100x the cost of pavement and require a lot of parallel tunnels. So basically you have to pay for the cost of buried lines and the unit installation and then hope it's as durable as they claim.
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i don't understand, it's not like the limiting factor for solar power is a lack of places to put solar panels
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May 28, 2014 20:47
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The company estimates 10,000 dollars per 12x12 panel.
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paranoid randroid posted: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. something like this would unironically be called a great success and used as a case study in the amazing benefits of privatization
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May 28, 2014 20:49
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Theoretically you could take the solar power part out and just make them LED/heated tiles to walk on for a driveway to a luxury club. What ever happened to the less-effective but printable solar stuff?
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May 28, 2014 20:49
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:The company estimates 10,000 dollars per 12x12 panel. does it say this anywhere? the webpage faq says they don't know (which is worse)
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May 28, 2014 20:50
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mabels big day posted:solar FREAKIN' roadways
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May 28, 2014 20:50
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we'll never do this but just imagine all that power generation in a successful system.
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May 28, 2014 20:57
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David Copperfield posted:does it say this anywhere? the webpage faq says they don't know (which is worse) I guess it doesn't on their site so I don't know where I got that number. Hmmm.
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May 28, 2014 21:03
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paranoid randroid posted: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. you should be a politician
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May 28, 2014 21:04
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A cum receptacle in every home to harness the power of ejaculate for the greater good.
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May 28, 2014 21:04
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Getting a pretty big Kony 2012 vibe from that video. The time is NOW!
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May 28, 2014 21:05
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Concerned Citizen posted:i don't understand, it's not like the limiting factor for solar power is a lack of places to put solar panels the limiting factor is amassing the requisite rare-earth metals you'd need for fabrication of solar panels putting some on a roof is one thing, replacing the entire United States Interstate System with them is another. it's paving the streets with gold, except the stuff is actually rarer than gold and instead of reliance on foreign oil, you now have reliance on foreign rare-earth metal supplies http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_scarcity_of_rare_metals_is_hindering_green_technologies/2711/ edit: three times rarer than gold in some cases
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May 28, 2014 21:07
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:Yeah, they talk about that in one of their videos about how it'd reduce the heating in cities and stuff due to asphalt. By how much? Because sand tends to get pretty loving hot too.
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May 28, 2014 21:11
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sounds like a pretty bad idea
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May 28, 2014 21:53
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gently caress the ROW posted: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 Lol did any of this money get used (on infrastructure)?
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May 28, 2014 22:04
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:I guess it doesn't on their site so I don't know where I got that number. Hmmm.
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May 28, 2014 22:07
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Aren't solar panels so costly to produce you'll probably never see an actual return on investment from them? And then you put those expensive, difficult to product devices in a place where tractor trailers will be beating the poo poo out of them constantly?
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May 28, 2014 22:09
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Your Dead Gay Son posted:I wanna see it not because I don't believe you but because I wanna see it http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3634306
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May 28, 2014 22:10
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i think there cool and good and im glad of it
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May 28, 2014 22:10
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Think about all the jobs it will create(!!)
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May 28, 2014 22:11
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We ought to turn our roads into big slot car tracks imo
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May 28, 2014 22:15
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paranoid randroid posted: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 22:16
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ill only support this if halliburton gets the contract
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May 28, 2014 22:35
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Pochoclo posted: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. who handles the buttplug contract?
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May 28, 2014 23:00
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comes along bort posted:who handles the buttplug contract? He answers to the name of "The Humungus".
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May 29, 2014 00:24
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DSauer posted:Aren't solar panels so costly to produce you'll probably never see an actual return on investment from them? And then you put those expensive, difficult to product devices in a place where tractor trailers will be beating the poo poo out of them constantly? Depends on where you live but this is really old information and no longer true in most locations. If you have expensive electricity ROI on Solar panels is about 7 years without subsidies and they last ~25. So 18 years of free power. If you get cheap power (7 cents or less per KwH) you probably won't make your money back, though you still might if your energy company works with tiered pricing.
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May 29, 2014 10:17
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can't we just flatten like, iceland or something and build all the solar panels there?
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May 29, 2014 10:19
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I had a sorta similar idea when I was high the other day. I thought about maybe mixing some piezoelectric material and conductive metal dust into the blacktop mix, so it would produce some electricity when expanding and contracting due to heat. It most likely wouldn't actually work, but the technological process would be so much more feasible than this crap.
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May 29, 2014 16:39
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Just put solar panels in hoods/trunks/roofs and atop buildings like normal people already do.
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May 29, 2014 16:40
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Instead of spending retard bux on roads, why not pump funds into real public transit in the states.
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May 29, 2014 16:53
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because public transport is for beta bitches and single occupancy vehicles are a god given right just as much as firearms
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May 29, 2014 17:19
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NihilismNow posted:Depends on where you live but this is really old information and no longer true in most locations. If you have expensive electricity ROI on Solar panels is about 7 years without subsidies and they last ~25. So 18 years of free power. If you get cheap power (7 cents or less per KwH) you probably won't make your money back, though you still might if your energy company works with tiered pricing.
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May 29, 2014 17:23
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psyopmonkey posted:Instead of spending retard bux on roads, why not pump funds into real public transit in the states. Because most cities in this country have non-centralized populations that would make "real" public transit pretty much a giant waste?
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May 29, 2014 17:26
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Is America running out of rooftops or something ? Why would we put our magic infinite energy squares under our big heavy moving things ?
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May 29, 2014 17:31
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Lunatics key posted:Is America running out of rooftops or something ? Why would we put our magic infinite energy squares under our big heavy moving things ? Freedom, burgers, boobs, and more freedom.
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May 29, 2014 17:37
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I'm not mad about it because it's a dumb "concept" idea that will never actually be built on a scale larger than some nerd's driveway.
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May 29, 2014 17:40
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I'm Crap posted:I keep seeing people say this but I have no idea where they're getting those numbers. Here in Northern Europe, total yearly insolation is something like 900kWh/m2. If you could convert that to electricity at 15% efficiency (and you can't) that's 135 kWh/year/m2, which would be worth about €10.80 per m2/year at €0.08/kWh. 25 * 10.8 = a lot less than the price of a square meter of solar panels, let alone installation and the grid-tie equipment. Lorfo at them lasting 25 years too, they start conspicuously losing efficiency after about 5 no matter how clean you keep them. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 18:07 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 18:05
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I agree but someone really needs to tell the goddamned Germans that
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Wouldn't it at least be quicker to fix these roads? One of the panels gets super hosed up, you just take it out and slot in a new one? I'm sure it would be insanely expensive, though.
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