Solar Roadways?
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@flabdablet said in Solar Roadways?:
@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
Instead of Solar Freakin' Sidewalks, make solar roofs over the sidewalks and running paths
and parking lots.
If you always get a spot in the shade and a bit more charge while you do your shopping, what's not to like? A panel-shaded parking lot would be a positive drawcard for any shopping centre.
I've got it! Let's put solar roofs over all the roads!
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@abarker then seal the sides, remove all the air and replace the cars with supersonic trains
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@Jaloopa Now you're gone too far. That's just absurd. Ray Charles could see that would never work.
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@abarker Way, way easier and more cost-effective than solar paving. Would also eliminate at least some sun glare, increasing road safety.
OTOH we could just install our panels atop existing tall roadside structures with existing drainage arrangements, grid connections and electric loads.
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@Jaloopa It's such a good idea, I've seen it implemented years ago.
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Saw this bumper sticker this morning:
https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/550242/files/20140501144505-Bumper_Sticker_-I_helped_crowdfund-_small.jpg?1398980705
(OK, so markdown can't auto-embed images with underscores in the url?)
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Looks like it breaks specifically on underscore-hyphen-underscore in the URL.
Behold the glory of marktexasleft.
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@Bort said in Solar Roadways?:
Saw this bumper sticker this morning:
Please tell me you ran them off the road to a fiery death? People like that should not be allowed to pass on their DNA.
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@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
ran them off the road to a fiery death?
Make sure to generate some electric from the fire though
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@Bort said in Solar Roadways?:
And it was on a Prius.
With 13.1, 26.2 stickers on it.
SO MUCH HATE!!!!New plan. Force them off the road, get them out of the car, roll their arm up in your window and drive at a slow speed until they are exhausted. See if they can make it 26.2 miles. If not, then run them over.
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@Rhywden Half-marathon and marathon. People put them on their cars to brag.
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@Yamikuronue I always wondered what those were. Now I see why the 0.0 ones are funny.
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@Salamander said in Solar Roadways?:
Looks like it breaks specifically on underscore-hyphen-underscore in the URL.
Behold the glory of marktexasleft.Yup, apparently the markdown parser uses RegEx.
Word characters in RegEx are `[0-9A-Za-z_]` and word boundaries are anywhere a word character is adjacent to a non-word character (or the first or last character in a string. This means that `_I_helped_crowdfund_` is a "word" contained in the URL, thanks to the hyphens on either side. Because italics can be indicated by either underscores or asterisks, the markdown parser renders this as `https://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/550242/files/20140501144505-Bumper_Sticker_-I_helped_crowdfund-_small.jpg?1398980705` before the link finding code even kicks in.tl;dr: Markdown sucks, especially when implemented with RegEx by people who don't know WTF they are doing.
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@abarker said in Solar Roadways?:
Yup, apparently the markdown parser uses RegEx.
Do they not know that you can't use regular expressions to parse a recursive grammar??? !!! ???
For heaven's sake, it's not like grammar is so complicated that it would take a non-trivial amount of effort to write a RDP or even a parser-generator grammar for it! What kind of idiot would do it in regexes instead?
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@masonwheeler said in Solar Roadways?:
Do they not know that you can't use regular expressions to parse a recursive grammar??? !!! ???
That post is … it's like … I don't think I have the right words for it. :awestruck.xlsx:
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@abarker I know! I mean, the rep score off to the side gives you some sense of how amazing of an answer it is, but even then...
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@Yamikuronue said in Solar Roadways?:
Half-marathon and marathon. People put them on their cars to brag.
That their cars run marathons?
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@Yamikuronue said in Solar Roadways?:
@Rhywden Half-marathon and marathon. People put them on their cars to brag.
I saw a car this morning with 5k, 10k, and 13.1 stickers.
Nobody cares, you prick!
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@abarker To be honest, a "140.6" sticker would impress me :)
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@mott555 said in Solar Roadways?:
Now I see why the 0.0 ones are funny.
I haven't seen those. That is funny.
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@Yamikuronue said in Solar Roadways?:
@Rhywden Half-marathon and marathon. People put them on their cars to brag.
So a half-marathon is 13.1 miles?
Huh. I always sort of had the impression it was bigger than that. There was a time, a while back, when I walked approximately 10 a day, miles pretty much every day. Kinda makes me wonder if I might not have been able to do a half-marathon with a bit of effort...
(The full marathon, no way. I know where that name comes from; it's a story about a guy who ran so far, so hard, that he died from the exertion, and that's not for me! But the half... that actually sounds doable.)
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@masonwheeler Walking is easy. When I was young my parents were keen ramblers and we did at least 10 miles every Sunday (I think I still have somewhere a medal I got for doing 15 miles when I was 5 years old... that one was exceptional, but 5-10 years later it was our standard distance). Walking 25 miles (or 26.2, if you want) is not that much harder, if you are in good physical shape.
Running, though, is a whole different story. I can walk 15 miles without thinking about it, I wouldn't be able to run 5 miles without feeling it for days afterwards.
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@remi There is a Dutch walking challenge where the shortest distance is 30 kilometers a day, for 4 days in a row.
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@PleegWat Yeah, doing that for more than 1 day becomes much more difficult. Still, nothing compared to running it.
(also, it's easier in a flat country :-))
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@remi Checking a bit further - that 30km is only valid for youngsters under 16, or elderly over 60. Adult males between 20 and 50 years old walk 50km, or in the military category 40km with 10kg of kit.
I have no idea how hilly the area around Nijmegen is, though it is definitely not mountainous.
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@PleegWat said in Solar Roadways?:
hilly the area around Nijmegen is
Do you count walking up and over dikes and bridge ramps as well?
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Back to topic: Obviously every country needs to find out for itself that Solar Roadways are a Very Dumb Thing.
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@Rhywden I'm safe from solar roadways, since in North-west England, it rains 377 days a year
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@RaceProUK said in Solar Roadways?:
@Rhywden I'm safe from solar roadways, since in North-west England, it rains 377 days a year
From what I remember of my trips to Normandy, the weather isn't that much better over there.
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@RaceProUK So, just put umbrellas over the roads.
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@hungrier Just one problem: it's a fundamental law that umbrellas must invert whenever there's a light breeze
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@hungrier said in Solar Roadways?:
@RaceProUK So, just put umbrellas over the roads.
Make them light-emitting umbrellas so they'll help power the roads!
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@RaceProUK said in Solar Roadways?:
@hungrier Just one problem: it's a fundamental law that umbrellas must invert whenever there's a light breeze
@mott555 said in Solar Roadways?:
@hungrier said in Solar Roadways?:
@RaceProUK So, just put umbrellas over the roads.
Make them light-emitting umbrellas so they'll help power the roads!
They could be wind powered! I think we've just solved energy forever
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@Rhywden said in Solar Roadways?:
Obviously every country needs to find out for itself that Solar Roadways are a Very Dumb Thing
Every country has their fair share of dumbfucks.
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@RaceProUK said in Solar Roadways?:
377 days a year
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@RaceProUK It was as close to a groan as I could get without actually paging @Groaner.
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@RaceProUK said in Solar Roadways?:
@Rhywden I'm safe from solar roadways, since in North-west England, it rains 377 days a year
So you already have hydro-road power for years now?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
So you already have hydro-road power for years now?
They are called 'rivers'
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@Luhmann said in Solar Roadways?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
So you already have hydro-road power for years now?
They are called 'rivers'
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Only small scale stuff. Mostly wrong topography, and the few places that are right for hydro-power are usually used for water supply instead.
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/me has hammer envy now
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@RaceProUK
It really was a massive hammer
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@Luhmann That's not a massive hammer.
THIS is a massive hammer.
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@flabdablet That's not a hammer, that's a piledriver
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@RaceProUK That's what your mom said
sorry, completely irresistible