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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
The U.S. Federal Debt is about $17,690,680,484,000.
Who's gonna hold another pink slip for $3 trillion? How much of this hi-tech roadway is $3 trillion gonna build? A few highways? The streets around the Capital building in Washington?
Seems like an awesome concept. Sounds extremely unfeasible given the cost and the existing debtload to the nation (and that goes for us here in Canada, too).
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What makes it even more unfeasible is that solar is entirely inefficient as an energy producer. It converts at best 16% of the Sun's energy and that's on a good day and I say good DAY intentionally. ~12 hours of the day under ideal conditions it converts 16%, the remaining 50% of the day it sits idle. Not working. Now expand that year long, ~6 months of the year is cloudy, winter conditions 1/2 the year, so 1/2 the year and 1/2 the day you'll get a 16% effecient energy plant.
and my $50 trillion dollar comment above wasn't sarcastic, that's the LOW estimate to convert the nation's highways and biways to solar.
I'm not directing this at you, SK, just quoting your comment for a sounding board
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