Never mentioned politics but you never gave a damn about intellectual honesty. Just horrible. If I cared I'd feel bad for you.
Solar Roadways
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Never mentioned politics but you never gave a damn about intellectual honesty. Just horrible. If I cared I'd feel bad for you.
Thank you.
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DutchJazzer
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check out the beards thread.
its okay to enter if yu are beardless. wont hold it against you
I'm actually a pretty hairless guy. Well, no hair on my chest, back or butt but I can grow a beard with the best of them.
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Even Harry Reid wants to spend all your money building a commuter rail from Victorville to Las Vegas.
Lyndon LaRouche wants to build MagLev trains about everywhere. . . . financed by government bonds or credit disbursements, sorta the same way Obama prints fiat currency and "invests" it in speculative financial schemes, principally because his buddies' banks are "too big to fail" but not too big to take money from us.
Well, let's look at this solar road idea from a long-term perspective. How much oil is there, who controls it and profits from it, and how much gas and diesel do we really want to use now instead of, say a hundred years from now. Asphalt roads use a lot of gravel, but they need to be "freshened" every five or ten years with a new pouring of oil/asphalt and a new layer of gravel, or a new inch or two of precisely measured gravel and tar. The highway people stand out there in orange vests, cops sit there running their red and blues, and they do lane shifts and reduced speed limits and doubled fines. . . .but black roads melt the snow a little faster than concrete ones.
We do concrete roads in some places. . . . depending on things like availability and cost of the concrete, but even concrete can buckle, crack, and get eaten up by road salts and ice freeze/thaw.
sand is one of the more common materials, but deposits of sufficient purity for making glass are much more rare than the limestone that can be used to make cement. . .. CaO/MgO powder that when mixed with the right proportions of water, sand, and gravel will make good concrete.
The economic value of the sand, gravel and cement we mine over any conveniently-measured time span far surpasses the economic value of gold, silver, rare earths, or any other mineral.. ... even steel. Less than oil, I think.
So here's how I break it all down. If you want this kind of research done by government grants, you're an idiot. If the idea has economic reality, you should shut your mouth and get out there and file your claims on sand deposits, because if it will ever be a success, some private person/s will start putting their money into it, and actually create an economic technology for it that even the government bureaucracy will eventually come home to. . . . .
right now they're talking about buried power lines, stormwater runoff pipes and reclamation plants, in-road "smart systems" and probably a lot more. . . .. As long as it's government grants funding the research it will have all sorts of trendy "selling points" with no notion of cost containment or effective use of our money.
Lyndon LaRouche wants to build MagLev trains about everywhere. . . . financed by government bonds or credit disbursements, sorta the same way Obama prints fiat currency and "invests" it in speculative financial schemes, principally because his buddies' banks are "too big to fail" but not too big to take money from us.
Well, let's look at this solar road idea from a long-term perspective. How much oil is there, who controls it and profits from it, and how much gas and diesel do we really want to use now instead of, say a hundred years from now. Asphalt roads use a lot of gravel, but they need to be "freshened" every five or ten years with a new pouring of oil/asphalt and a new layer of gravel, or a new inch or two of precisely measured gravel and tar. The highway people stand out there in orange vests, cops sit there running their red and blues, and they do lane shifts and reduced speed limits and doubled fines. . . .but black roads melt the snow a little faster than concrete ones.
We do concrete roads in some places. . . . depending on things like availability and cost of the concrete, but even concrete can buckle, crack, and get eaten up by road salts and ice freeze/thaw.
sand is one of the more common materials, but deposits of sufficient purity for making glass are much more rare than the limestone that can be used to make cement. . .. CaO/MgO powder that when mixed with the right proportions of water, sand, and gravel will make good concrete.
The economic value of the sand, gravel and cement we mine over any conveniently-measured time span far surpasses the economic value of gold, silver, rare earths, or any other mineral.. ... even steel. Less than oil, I think.
So here's how I break it all down. If you want this kind of research done by government grants, you're an idiot. If the idea has economic reality, you should shut your mouth and get out there and file your claims on sand deposits, because if it will ever be a success, some private person/s will start putting their money into it, and actually create an economic technology for it that even the government bureaucracy will eventually come home to. . . . .
right now they're talking about buried power lines, stormwater runoff pipes and reclamation plants, in-road "smart systems" and probably a lot more. . . .. As long as it's government grants funding the research it will have all sorts of trendy "selling points" with no notion of cost containment or effective use of our money.
What? You truly can't be this dumb of a person, right?
Ugh, you're as bad as Helen.
I still have no idea what your last post meant. Was it just PMS?
Because you clearly mentioned politics by discussing budgetary decisions. If you weren't aware, politics is involved in every government decision. Our roads are government run. Roads are politics. You are dumb.
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So what you are saying is you don't have any strong feelings one way or t'other?
I love the science, wish I had the money.
very very far from not having "strong feelings".
don't trust government-sponsored research, think it just goes to serve trendy politics, politicians and their friends, takes our money out of our pockets and puts it in theirs. It might result in some cool roads, but probably more in the class of "bridges to nowhere".
I just thought it sounded cool.
It is cool.
glass will make better roads than asphalt or cement. Possibly cheaper roads. especially with a modular design a couple of highway workers can replace in minutes instead of hours of pothole filling operations.
I don't have the current info on what materials a solar panel requires. . . .. conductors like copper/silver for sure, high tech solar cells mainly silicon with some doping agent like germanium. . . . and then when you put in all the LED lights to replace the paint, and you start piping storm runoff to filtration plants, and installing heating circuitry I bet it get pretty pricey. These guys want the roads to be computers as well, smart roads with sensors for all kinds of things, and even power generators the cars can use for "batteries". Why carry batteries everywhere when we can have them under our roads?
A passive solar heating technology might be more practical. filter chambers/filters in storm surge ponds might be more affordable than miles of pipe and water reclamation projects. Would still be smart to eliminate the roadside weeds the deer come to roadsides to eat.
I posted in some other thread about my idea of a suspended rail system with wheeled electric hooks capable of carrying our cars between major destinations like LA/Las Vegas. Sure we'd be carrying our 3000# cars hundreds of miles, but we could just unhook them when we get to town and go about our business.
PearlWatson
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How would the hooking and unhooking work?
Simple solenoid devices like the locks on modern automobiles. There would be hooking mechanisms grappling the cars/trucks at specific undercarriage/frame points, like the places designed for jacks for example, that would not damage the vehicle. There would be the hooks locking the wheels on the monorail or suspension rails to the rails. They would possibly be shaped like railcar wheels to physically make it impossible to come off the track. There would be smart computer regulation of spacing and speed. You could program your destination and go to sleep.
You're surprised by this?
The second you respond to someone by saying "I don't care" actually shows... Never mind, tard.
Dude, it sounded REALLY cool, so all we have to do is just spend less money on things. You know, like Presidential vacations! LOL!!1
*crickets*
See?
It's called ignore you clown. Damn your parents must be ashamed. Added to the list.
Doubtful.
This. Driving to Disney Land blows cat fetus.
p.s. Stroked is a total wiener dick. He can't read this, so it's cool.