Solar Smart Roadways Provide Power, Traffic Control, & Other Cool Benefits - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Drury;44968282]Stolen tiles can be tracked.[/QUOTE] Well i hope you have a blast tracking the tiles to hundreds of different places, the vast majority being dismantled for their most valuable parts in a matter of hours and resold just as fast.

if these were all installed tomorrow, my dad would be out of an $80 an hour job, and we would lose everything, since his skill set is in power.

[QUOTE=Drury;44968282]Stolen tiles can be tracked.[/QUOTE] And that just means increasing the costs of tiles further by putting tracking devices in them, and setting up a huge bloated department whose job it is to oversee the tracking of stolen tiles. [editline]1st June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=bdd458;44969404]if these were all installed tomorrow, my dad would be out of an $80 an hour job, and we would lose everything, since his skill set is in power.[/QUOTE] His job would still be safe. The system would fail upon implementation.

my dad went into power specifically because he was told he'd never be out of a job too. I hope you're right Sobotnik. He's still got to get me and my brothers through college. So if these were somehow implemented in the next 15 years and my dad would be out of a job, I don't know what my brothers would do...

[QUOTE=bdd458;44969431]my dad went into power specifically because he was told he'd never be out of a job too. I hope you're right Sobotnik. He's still got to get me and my brothers through college. So if these were somehow implemented in the next 15 years and my dad would be out of a job, I don't know what my brothers would do...[/QUOTE] Dont worry man, there is no fucking way. With the current american political climate of doing fuck-all, this is a several hundred year project. Thats playfully assuming that this could ever work.

[QUOTE=bdd458;44969431]my dad went into power specifically because he was told he'd never be out of a job too. I hope you're right Sobotnik. He's still got to get me and my brothers through college. So if these were somehow implemented in the next 15 years and my dad would be out of a job, I don't know what my brothers would do...[/QUOTE] how would solar power even put him out of a job

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;44969486]how would solar power even put him out of a job[/QUOTE] According to the pitch for these roadways, we'd make more power than we ever use. My dad works for NAES, which is a company which deals with power plants. if these roads were to magically work, and operate quickly, there would be no need for his line of work, which deals specifically with operating power plants (Specifically Coal and Nuclear). to be fair though we do have solar panels on our house, and we get paid for any extra electricity we make since we sell it back.

[QUOTE=bdd458;44969524]According to the pitch for these roadways, we'd make more power than we ever use. My dad works for NAES, which is a company which deals with power plants. if these roads were to magically work, and operate quickly, there would be no need for his line of work, which deals specifically with operating power plants. to be fair though we do have solar panels on our house, and we get paid for any extra electricity we make since we sell it back.[/QUOTE] There is an insatiable demand for electricity. Even if all the roads somehow magically were converted and produced a lot of electricity, then it won't be the end of the line for your dad. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox[/url]