Solar Road Panels for You and Me

You may have heard all the talk on radio shows about up and coming "solar road panels" that would be a godsend in removing the solar panel electricity generation factor.  This couple from Idaho has done extensive videos on the subject and the topic has been "re tweeted a million times' on the internet, so this author is a little late to the party.  This author only learned the specifics of this solar road panel thing last night on George Washington's blog, where I watched extensive videos on the subject.  These road panels are covered on an ultra hard plexiglas covering that lets the light through to the imbedded solar cells.  These panels are like hexigonal floor tiles that you just lay down on the roadway.  If one of the panels should fail and no longer work, there is a wired alert system where "the panels talk to each other" and the supervisor is informed exactly where to go to replace the specific panel.  These panels foresee the day when we will drive in all electric cars and these panels would solve for all time the recharging problem.  In fact they say that is the entire country were strewn with these solar road panels, they would produce three times the total energy consumption right now in the world.  But there are other benefits to these panels.  First of all they would solve the problem of snow removal equipment because they are designed never to fall below the freezing point even in winter.  So you alliviate the salt and pothole problems drivers face now.  And snow would not collect on them.  But not only this but there are LED lights in these panels, which produce not only road lane lines, but also sense when deer or other animal is crossing the road ahead of you.  There are also programmable side lights that come on and off to save electricity when a driver would pass on a relatively empty road.  But these lights come in many colors and can be decked out for various games including tennis and basketball.  They say it would be like a living TRON game.  There is a video that has been up since May 2014 (just last month) called "Solar Freaking Panels", which concisely outlines the benefits of these road panels.  They also have optical qualities that efficiently direct the light to the driver, and also direct sunlight down to the solar panels beneath regardless of the time of day.  I tell you these people have thought of everything.  They have "passed all the tests with flying colors' and now are ready for a major roll-out and need your donations of a million dollars or something.  Detractors say that these panels are incredibly expensive- - but costs will come down - and I imagine the physical appearence of the panels will change in successive versions.  Just like we no longer have huge cell phones of the kind Gordon Gecko picked up as a novelty item in 1985.   It was only in 2007 that the first I Phones came out, and we all know of the vast improvements and competetion in successive generations.

There is another invention featured on this George Washington blog site.  There is this British guy who has this 'magic glass coating".  This is a clear carbon compound that is just micro-inches thick, that is like "carbon rolled into a chicken wire pattern".   This substance can be bent to form to any surface for a coating.  The substance produces electricity - - electrons from infrared waves in a manner I don't entirely understand.  One knows of course that when things flourecess "downward" in wave frequency such as that UV waves generate visable light do to electrons excited by photon activity.  Anyhow- - these windows can be programmed to appear different for just what you need.  They can have reflective surfaces on the outside to repel solar heat.  But you can just as easily have the reflective surface on the inside to reflect light back in the room.  It would be like these plastic sleeping bag wraps you put around you that are blue plastic on the outside but on the inside is a reflective surface that traps and reflects back your own body heat that keeps you nice and warm.  These windows can be programmed to appear in any color you want.  All that is needed is a four volt pulse that lasts only a milisecond.  The proponent of these panels say that when carbon is this thin that conductivity of subsances changes in the micro world- and this kind of "chicken wire carbon" has an amazingly efficient conductivity.  I would imagine that Sean Hannity and Rush will have a cow when they hear about either of these devices because it makes all that "all of the above" nonesense of the Obama Administration appear silly.  Now President Obama wants to encourage power companies to convert to natural gas, and take two years for new environmental regulations- - and the Republicans cry fowl. But it is pointed out that natural gas has become so inexpensive now, due to the epidemic of hydrolic fracturing, that power companies are converting on their own to natural gas.

The "Cosmos show" last night - - indicates that Global Warming is indeed here, and most of it is indeed man made.  First of all Venus was a victim of global warming because Venus never developed the life forms that sequester the carbon, nor the ocean water which sequesters more of the carbon in deposited limestone and such.  They say that with zero CO2 in the atmosphere earth would be a frozen, icy planet.  We need three parts per one percent of the atnosphere.  When I was in grammar school I was told that there was four percent of one percent C02 in the atnosphere.  Apparently the correct number established in 1958 was .03 of one percent, or three parts per ten thousand.  But there was a Sweedish mathmetician who calculated in 1896 that increased CO2 such as doubling the ammount- would have disasterous global warming consequences.  Later in the mid 1930's there was other "academic' research on this subject.  Today there is now forty percent more carbon dioxide than the base line throughout most of our earth's history.  Some wonder about the valcanic eruptions such as Rush whines about.  However - - it's a "heavier kind of CO2" that is easily distinguishable when you examine it.  And most of the elevatred CO2 is man made and not from valcanoes.  This activity is not caused by solar activity, which has remained unchanged.  Beside most of the global warming occurs at night, and in the winter when forests mainly in the northern hemisphere are producing the most green growth that produces oxygen.  And you've all heard about the famed "tipping point' where is enough polar ice melts that the sea water absorbs a lot more heat from the sun, whereas ice reflects much more heat back out into space.  So more open sea water produces more absorbed heat producing more melting ice and more sea water.  These are positive feedback loops.  People like Pat Buchannon and Shawn Hannidy don't have a clue on this.

And now here is more on that lone Afghan war POW that was released guy's testimony.  On June 27, 2009, according to Rolling Stone,[19] Bowe sent a final e-mai­l to his parents: "The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."  His email went on to describe his disillusionment in the army: "In the US army you are cut down for being honest... but if you are a conceited brown nosing shit bag you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank... The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an american. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools...I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live. We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks... We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them...I am sorry for everything. The horror that is america is disgusting...There are a few more boxes coming to you guys. Feel free to open them, and use them."  During his unit's normal deployment rotation to Afghanistan, he went missing on June 30, 2009, near the town of Yahya Kheyl in the Paktika Province, which is in the south-east of Afghanistan, right on the border with Pakistan.  Accounts of his capture differ. The version offered by Bergdahl, in the video, is that he was captured when he fell behind on a patrol.[2] Taliban sources allege he was ambushed after becoming drunk off base; U.S. military sources deny that claim, stating, "The Taliban are known for lying and what they are claiming [is] not true".[4] Other sources said Bergdahl walked off his base after his shift[26] or that he was grabbed from a latrine.[27] A Department of Defense spokesperson said, "I'm glad to see he appears unharmed, but again, this is a Taliban propaganda video. They are exploiting the soldier in violation of international law."