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Route 66 is getting solar roadways. That has the potential to springboard similar expansions in the US if proven to be as successful here as predecessors in the Netherlands have been.

Quote:Route 66 is getting solar roadways. That has the potential to springboard similar expansions in the US if proven to be as successful here as predecessors in the Netherlands have been.

 

That's really no innovation as far as energy needs.  It's pretty much a "feel good" concept.  It doesn't address what is actually needed and used by supposed "green" energy (solar).  It won't and can't produce enough meaningful energy to be a solution.

 

As I said before, any power produced via solar needs to be stored and converted to AC power before it is usable on the power grid.  At best it would power the conceived led lights on the road.

 

Try again.

Storage of solar energy is the issue. Solving that issue ends our dependency on foreign (or domestic) oil. Offsetting our dependency on fossil fuels in any way is a good thing. Other countries are paving the path for this while we continue to fight progress.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/201...rbon-taxes

I'm surprised the right wingers aren't more Pro renewable energy. It basically ends money flowing to the middle east funding terrorism.

Quote: as successful here as predecessors in the Netherlands have been.

It's one road, meant to be a testbed for the technology. We're not repaving every single road over here. 

Quote:<a class="bbc_url" href='http://priceofoil.org/thepriceofoil/clean-energy/'>http://priceofoil.org/thepriceofoil/clean-energy/</a>



The industry consistently uses its political and financial muscle to try and block the alternatives. In 2015, oil companies spent $11 million on successfully killing a provision in California’s SB 350 climate bill to halve petroleum use by 2030. (1)
Coal-burning utilities have tried to penalize consumers for installing rooftop solar. In Europe, Shell successfully lobbied against targets for renewable energy. (1)



Meanwhile, the industry continues to demand handouts, giving it an unfair advantage over clean energy. G20 countries gave $452 billion in subsidies in 2014, going directly towards the production of fossil fuels. The U.S. share of this was over $20 billion. (2)
The industry also lobbies for exemptions to environmental rules, which also gives it an unfair advantage by making its costs artificially low. (1)

 

(1) Lobbying for reduced government interference in their industry is not the same as blocking other industries. There is nothing in those statements that does anything to block renewable development by private industry.


 

(2) The Left loves to compare apples and oranges. Subsides to clean energy are in the form of direct payouts, 'research and development' grants (like Solyndra), and even cash rebates to buyers of electric cars (all of whom have to be rich enough to afford an expensive impractical toy). Those $452 billion in 'subsidies' (such an exact number!) to fossil fuel companies are almost all in deductions for the cost of taxes paid to foreign governments. In other businesses this is just called a business expense. There is also a 'subsidy' to companies that provide heating oil to poor families. This would be like the government directly paying Publix to give free food to the needy rather than hand out SNAP cards. The oil companies are really just middlemen in a government giveaway here.

Quote:Storage of solar energy is the issue. Solving that issue ends our dependency on foreign (or domestic) oil. Offsetting our dependency on fossil fuels in any way is a good thing. Other countries are paving the path for this while we continue to fight progress.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/201...rbon-taxes

 

They taxed the hell out of coal power in England, and so it's replaced by much more expensive wind power? I'm sure the poor people freezing to death in England when the can no longer afford their electric bill are delighted at the change.


 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-lows.html

Quote:They taxed the hell out of coal power in England, and so it's replaced by much more expensive wind power? I'm sure the poor people freezing to death in England when the can no longer afford their electric bill are delighted at the change.


<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513719/Number-deaths-linked-freezing-winter-increases-30-31-000-temperatures-fell-record-lows.html'>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513719/Number-deaths-linked-freezing-winter-increases-30-31-000-temperatures-fell-record-lows.html</a>

They wanted to make coal less desirable and did by driving up the price on the more hazardous substance. They do the same thing with certain types of freon for older A/C units. Sections of London exceeded their annual air quality limits in the first five days of the year. Breathable air is kind of important.

Quote:They wanted to make coal less desirable and did by driving up the price on the more hazardous substance. They do the same thing with certain types of freon for older A/C units. Sections of London exceeded their annual air quality limits in the first five days of the year. Breathable air is kind of important.

 

Modern coal power plants do not dirty the air. The pollution was probably caused by people forced to burn wood and trash to heat their homes once the electric rates skyrocketed.

Quote:My speciality is microbial ecology. The DH didn't kill "billions" of bacteria, it actually increased their numbers but also killed other species due to suffocation and reduced dissolved oxygen in the water column (heterotrophic bacteria use a lot of oxygen).

LOL!

 

I thought you were an assistant to the US Surgeon General. https://jungle.jaguars.com/index.php?/to...rs-haters/

 

Methinks someone has a vivid imagination when it comes to their employment.

Quote:Modern coal power plants do not dirty the air. The pollution was probably caused by people forced to burn wood and [NO SYNONYM?] to heat their homes once the electric rates skyrocketed.

Actually it was probably caused by dirty diesel engines.