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Yeah - solar roads sounds good - UNTIL you think about it.
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02-05-2019, 04:09 PM
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Solar panels belong on your roof not under your tires
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02-05-2019, 07:58 PM
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solar money way
I have seen the basic premise on SR
downsides
costly
low energy generation
good way to get crowd funded a literally use other peoples money OPM
survey says SR are limited and not worth
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02-06-2019, 12:02 AM
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Solar panels belong on your roof not under your tires
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Likewise, you don't want the rubber worn off of everyone's tires smeared all over your solar panels.
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02-06-2019, 11:52 AM
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Generally speaking, trying to achieve 2 vastly
different goals in 1 product results in both goals being suboptimally met.
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So, the CR-Z?  |
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02-06-2019, 11:53 AM
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Snow plowing, sanding and salting your solar panels - would be awful!
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02-12-2019, 06:59 PM
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I can't help but remember I-80 over Donner Pass (California/Sierra Nevada). When I last drove that stretch (a few years ago now), traffic had worn ruts into the concrete deep enough that I worried about high-centering the Insight on them.
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02-12-2019, 07:10 PM
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Did you stop at the restroom at the summit?
I did a few years ago and it was the most palatial restroom Ive ever seen. The lobby is larger than a house, and the men's wing (I presume women's as well) had floor to ceiling glass block windows so it's flooded with light.
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02-13-2019, 02:45 PM
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Did you stop at the restroom at the summit?.
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Have often stopped there. Used to drive that way fairly frequently, as it was the best way to get from my old place to the north Bay Area. Nowadays California 88 over Carson Pass is shorter, and a much nicer drive even though the rest area at the pass is a bit on the primitive side. But fortunately I can now use electrons instead of driving :-) |
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