Trump's Solar Wall
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The Thriller
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Lol
Anything to take attention away from dumpcare.
Remember how he promised not to cut Medicaid? lol Dumpcare features $800 billion in Medicaid cuts.
Anything to take attention away from dumpcare.
Remember how he promised not to cut Medicaid? lol Dumpcare features $800 billion in Medicaid cuts.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-talks-about-building-a-solar-southern-wall/
This article has pictures of the proposed Gleason Partner solar walls. Interesting.
This article has pictures of the proposed Gleason Partner solar walls. Interesting.
441,000 Veterans would be kicked off/ineligible.
You seem like a sweat person please do not turn into the thriller types just celebrate this incredibly progressive idea.
Red
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More significantly, experts who have taken the solar-paneled border wall proposal seriously say such a structure would have significant issues. Vertically fixed panels could lead to an efficiency loss of around 50 percent, according to an analysis by the Financial Times.
And that’s just the beginning. As Sophie Yeo reported for The Post earlier this month:
In addition, solar panels degrade over time. The requirements dictated by the security aspects of the border wall — bricks and spray paint, for example — could further reduce efficiency.
Then there is the question of finding a market for any electricity that would be generated by a solar wall in a remote section of the country.
With less than 2 percent of the U.S. population living within 40 miles of the Mexico border, the electricity generated by the wall would mostly be useless — unless costly transmission lines were built to take the electricity to other areas of the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...aaf07e9b69b2fb981ddef/?utm_term=.23f1d8ee4bbd
And that’s just the beginning. As Sophie Yeo reported for The Post earlier this month:
In addition, solar panels degrade over time. The requirements dictated by the security aspects of the border wall — bricks and spray paint, for example — could further reduce efficiency.
Then there is the question of finding a market for any electricity that would be generated by a solar wall in a remote section of the country.
With less than 2 percent of the U.S. population living within 40 miles of the Mexico border, the electricity generated by the wall would mostly be useless — unless costly transmission lines were built to take the electricity to other areas of the country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...aaf07e9b69b2fb981ddef/?utm_term=.23f1d8ee4bbd
Red
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At the same campaign style rally in which he raised the solar panel Mexican wall idea, he railed against wind energy. Doing this in Iowa is really weird. Iowa generates 36%+ of its energy via wind, and is second only to Texas in total energy production via wind. It employed 8000-9000 Iowans last year. Wind energy added $11.8 billion to Iowa's economy via capital investments. Iowa wind farms that are built on private land, and then leased to the wind developers, earn Iowa landowners ~$20 million a year.
As he's stated in the past, he again stated at the Iowa rally that wind turbines "kill birds". In fact they do kill up to 368,000 birds per year. I like birds as much as the next person. I feed them most every day. There isn't a bird or squirrel in my neighborhood that doesn't know me by sight. And 300,000+ is a lot of dead birds. But, it's 0.01% of total birds killed by humans ever year. Phone towers kill 6.8 million, glass buildings kill 1 billion birds, and cars kill 3.7 billion. So Trump's observation does seem like a weak reason to be against wind energy. Wind turbine technician is the fastest growing occupation in the country. RI just installed and made operational the first offshore wind farm in the United States, and the energy potential for wind farms off our Atlantic coast is through the roof fantastic. We need more offshore wind farms. But, he did not want an "ugly" turbine offshore of his Scottish golf course, so maybe that's why he still cares so much about birds. Just nonsensical to speak out against wind energy in 2017....
As he's stated in the past, he again stated at the Iowa rally that wind turbines "kill birds". In fact they do kill up to 368,000 birds per year. I like birds as much as the next person. I feed them most every day. There isn't a bird or squirrel in my neighborhood that doesn't know me by sight. And 300,000+ is a lot of dead birds. But, it's 0.01% of total birds killed by humans ever year. Phone towers kill 6.8 million, glass buildings kill 1 billion birds, and cars kill 3.7 billion. So Trump's observation does seem like a weak reason to be against wind energy. Wind turbine technician is the fastest growing occupation in the country. RI just installed and made operational the first offshore wind farm in the United States, and the energy potential for wind farms off our Atlantic coast is through the roof fantastic. We need more offshore wind farms. But, he did not want an "ugly" turbine offshore of his Scottish golf course, so maybe that's why he still cares so much about birds. Just nonsensical to speak out against wind energy in 2017....