Solar Roadways, what a concept!

[Detroitnerd]

Well yes and there is that too that I fully support. But right now the street outside my office is doing nothing but collecting heat when it could be powering the building

I usually overstate for effect, you know. But, honestly, we could have a very successful conservation program that would go a long way toward reducing demand. Of course, since we've given energy over to business, they don't want lower demand, they want ever more consumption. That's the main crux.

But, the thing is, the time to build all this smart energy infrastructure was 30 years ago. Now that we're essentially broke, we're supposed to embark on a plan to spend trillions of dollars to turn roadways into solar cells? With no discussion of how private autos might not be the most efficient way to move people?

That is so silly, man. When you get right down to it, it's about as silly as running a sound truck around town announcing "STOP NOISE POLLUTION" or running a 1.2 megawatt billboard urging "Conserve electricity!"