Solar Roadways?
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@theBread No, that's so blind drivers know when they're drifting out of their lane
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@theBread said in Solar Roadways?:
@boomzilla Isn't that the point of the rumble strips along the side of the road?
I cannot imagine how anything along the side of the road, whether reflectors, lights or a naked @Lorne-Kates jumping up and down is going to be of any help here.
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@boomzilla said in Solar Roadways?:
a naked @Lorne-Kates jumping up and down
You see a naked @Lorne-Kates by the side of the road. Is it more ethical to swerve to hit him, knowing that this will also kill the two passengers in the car with you, or stay on the road while allowing @Lorne-Kates to live?
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@error said in Solar Roadways?:
You see a naked @Lorne-Kates by the side of the road. Is it more ethical to swerve to hit him, knowing that this will also kill the two passengers in the car with you, or stay on the road while allowing @Lorne-Kates to live?
What a moral dilemma …
Who are the passengers?
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@abarker Hitler and Jesus
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@Jaloopa said in Solar Roadways?:
@abarker Hitler and Jesus
You just had to make the question even harder, didn't you?
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@abarker Seriously; he should have made it easy for you by using Joseph Smith and Hitler.
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@Magus Or Gandhi and Stalin.
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@lolwhat That's far less pertinent, actually.
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@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
Blakey is the power bottom
Now, now, he can sometimes be an ass, but a power ass?
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@Maciejasjmj said in Solar Roadways?:
@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
Blakey is the power bottom
Now, now, he can sometimes be an ass, but a power ass?
Well, just to show you that he actually is a power ass, I found this photo of him:
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@Rhywden This photo raises so many more questions than it answers.
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@FrostCat Don't sell them short, we might also get a little lecture on how locking levers cause gas stations to explode all the time.
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@lucas1 In theory US roads do, too.
However the quality of the road maintenance in different states (and even counties) varies widely. Also, those get trimmed off the first time it snows and they send the plows out. In Western Washington, it goes years between deep snows, but in Eastern Washington those plows are out like clockwork every November.
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@blakeyrat said in Solar Roadways?:
gas stations to explode
I've actually seen the aftermath of someone filling a gas can in his (carpeted) van, which caused a small explosion. I certainly wouldn't want to be around when that happened, not that I'm paying any credence to the locking lever theory.
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@blakeyrat said in Solar Roadways?:
Also, those get trimmed off the first time it snows and they send the plows out.
Since that happens every year in the Northeast, they mostly just don't use them at all. Rarely you might see a variant where the reflector is embedded into the road under the surface, but by and large it's just the regular painted stripes. I'd never even seen them until a trip to South Carolina in my teens.
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Oh look, another thread I lost track of because my thread bookmarks from Discourse weren't imported to NodeBB.
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@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
No one can sound like a cockhole as much as real Australians.
On the other hand, no one can touch a Seppo when it comes to being a real cockhole.
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@Zecc said in Solar Roadways?:
Oh look, another thread I lost track of because my thread bookmarks from Discourse weren't imported to NodeBB.
This thread was started less than a week ago. wtf are you talking about???
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@FrostCat said in Solar Roadways?:
I've actually seen the aftermath of someone filling a gas can in his (carpeted) van, which caused a small explosion. I certainly wouldn't want to be around when that happened, not that I'm paying any credence to the locking lever theory.
That's why you're supposed to put the portable cans on the ground when filling them. It's also why there are signs on the pumps telling you to follow such safety measures. It has nothing to do with locking levers and everything to do with static electricity.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
This thread was started less than a week ago. wtf are you talking about???
Hit [HOME] to scroll up to the top. First post was 2 years ago.
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@masonwheeler said in Solar Roadways?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
This thread was started less than a week ago. wtf are you talking about???
Hit [HOME] to scroll up to the top. First post was 2 years ago.
I don't consider the apparent creation date, I consider when I first became aware of it (i.e. a Necro thread created 13 years ago is still new to me, because it just now showed in my /unread).
Besides, if you're whining about 122 posts....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
I don't consider the apparent creation date, I consider when I first became aware of it
Men in the women's room . Cats and dogs, living together.
You didn't exist until I became aware of you. You're just a .
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@error said in Solar Roadways?:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
I don't consider the apparent creation date, I consider when I first became aware of it
Men in the women's room . Cats and dogs, living together.
You didn't exist until I became aware of you. You're just a .
Actually, I don't consider physical age at all when interacting with an entity. TBH I was quite surprised when I discovered you were within three years of my own age (well, maybe. My memory might be a little crossed).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Solar Roadways?:
Besides, if you're whining about 122 posts....
I'm not whining about anything. Just ing about your claim that this is a relatively new thread.
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@masonwheeler said in Solar Roadways?:
Just ing about your claim that this is a relatively new thread.
Ah. Do carry on then!
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@abarker said in Solar Roadways?:
That's why
locking levers, forks in outlets, cell phones causing explosions, it's all the same.
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@abarker said in Solar Roadways?:
@Jaloopa said in Solar Roadways?:
@abarker Hitler and Jesus
You just had to make the question even harder, didn't you?
Jesus can survive, or not and still live.
Hitler dies.
Lorne dies.Win-win.
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@xaade said in Solar Roadways?:
@abarker said in Solar Roadways?:
@Jaloopa said in Solar Roadways?:
@abarker Hitler and Jesus
You just had to make the question even harder, didn't you?
Jesus can survive, or not and still live.
Yeah he's pretty damn tough to kill. I think we need to destroy all of his horcruxes first.
Filed under: Horcrucifix
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I'm talking about the fact that I received notifications about this thread on Discourse, so I kept up-to-date with it; but when we moved to NodeBB I lost track of it (I no longer visit the Unread page much).
So now I had to scroll up a bunch to see all the posts I missed.
Oh well, I guess that's standard NodeBB procedure anyway...
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@Jaloopa said in Solar Roadways?:
@theBread No, that's so blind drivers know when they're drifting out of their lane
I thought they were replacing radio?
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@Zecc said in Solar Roadways?:
Oh well, I guess that's standard NodeBB procedure anyway...
Look on the bright side! At least infiniscroll is faster, right?
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@flabdablet said in Solar Roadways?:
Jim Jeffries on America's "freedom" – 06:55
Your envy is so transparent.
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@FrostCat said in Solar Roadways?:
@abarker said in Solar Roadways?:
That's why
locking levers, forks in outlets, cell phones causing explosions shooting aliens, it's all the same.
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@boomzilla said in Solar Roadways?:
Your envy is so transparent.
The really sad part about that remark is that I'm quite sure you think it's true.
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@flabdablet I know, because why should you be right about something?
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The media has played another game of telephone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S6kowyvreY
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@LB_ 100 thousand USD and additional crowdfunding for about 22 m2 of solar panels. Jesus, that's such an epic waste of money I'm actually amazed.
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@LB_ Should be fun to watch all the conspiracy theories when MODOT comes to its senses and shuts the project down.
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If Solar Freakin Roadways weren't dumb enough for you:
http://www.laweekly.com/news/california-freeways-will-soon-generate-electricity-7203102
VIBRATING FREAKIN ROADWAYS
The office of L.A.-area Assemblyman Mike Gatto announced recently that the California Energy Commission has agreed to fund multiple piezoelectric pilot projects in the Golden State.
There has been a pilot project in the Netherlands:
The amount of energy generated during the pilot project was too small to be used for traffic lights or street lighting, but it was enough for devices that need less energy, such as wireless motion sensors, which detect vehicles and send a signal to, for example, traffic lights. Currently these are mainly powered by batteries or solar panels. Vibration energy is a sustainable alternative for these power sources.
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@boomzilla That final explanation sounds like it's already more useful than the solar ones, because they found an actual use for it.
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@Magus Yeah, to replace the existing solar power sources.
Which just sit on the pole for the sign. You don't have to make them part of the road or anything.
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@boomzilla Replacing existing solar power sources by tapping into and taxing fossil-fuel powered cars! Brillant!
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@Magus said in Solar Roadways?:
@boomzilla That final explanation sounds like it's already more useful than the solar ones, because they found an actual use for it.
Won't work on @Weng's street. (but then the things they power wouldn't be needed either...)
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@dcon Given the only signs are "There's a neighborhood watch here (which is a fucking lie and always has been)!", "Dead end" and the name of the street, we don't need that crap.
Hell, there's not even a stop sign at the one intersection.
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Webcam of the world's first Solar Freakin' Roadways installation, that no one will even drive on, and it is already almost completely broken and has yet to make a single watt of electricity, but is consuming electricity to run the LEDs. All of the panels on the periphery were DOA. The rest have been failing after install.
http://www.cityofsandpoint.com/visiting-sandpoint/solar-roadways#ad-image-3
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Hmmm....Baltimore is close enough that I might go there just to laugh at them.
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@Polygeekery said in Solar Roadways?:
the world's first Solar Freakin' Roadways installation
Cunningly positioned to catch the available shade.
![0_1476202046160_shade.jpg](Uploading 100%)Edit: fuck hipster whitespace bulletin boards that don't work.