And you buy that without evidence? What other glass-based material has grit and grime just "brush off?" Nevermind "doesn't scratch overtime by being worn down by grit and rocks."

It's *barely* cost effective for companies to line rooftops with solar panels which have clear glass, are tilted towards the south, and are maintained. And these folks think it will be worth the cost to bury them in roads and compete with asphalt for price? There's just no way. It's a really stupid idea. Line the side of the roads with solar panels if you want to generate electricity. Plant them in the ground with pretty blinkenlights if you want to cheat thousands of people out of money on indiegogo.

You're serious? Your retort to actual problems is "don't be so negative!"

I'm gonna go ahead and guess you're one of the rubes who've sponsored this moronic idea...

And it will work after grime, dirt, leaves, etc. all seap into things too right? Or are the roads where you live a *lot* cleaner than the ones I drive on?

"Designed to" does not mean "will work as planned." These two seem waaaay over-optimistic in their approach. I love the idea of these for parks and such though. But for roads I think they're just tilting at windmills. Not only do they have to solve all of the problems that having a tiled-roadway entails (uneven stresses, rocking back and forth, etc.) but they also need to keep these things optically clear otherwise the "solar freaking roadway" will just be a "glass roadway." Solar panels aren't great under the best of circumstances and these two have decided to put them in the *worst* of circumstances for some reason...

Does reporting it make it not bribery?

This is what I don't understand - how is that not the obvious solution to their problem? Why take solar panels and try to bury the things under a road and spend $$$ figuring out how to make that work "at all" when it would cost a fraction of the price to put up cheap wood scaffolding along-side the roads that could be angled toward the Sun?

This is just a monumentally stupid idea...

I have a hard time taking anybody serious who thinks you need to be a meteorological modeling scientist to know that solar panels don't work when it's dark...

Man we could just get that monorail that is going to solve all of our problems then!

There's also a very good reason roads aren't made from tiles of hard materials. The rocking back and forth as the weight moves over the surface is going to very likely cause seams to break where ice/water can get in. Not to mention the crazy amount of stresses on the material over its lifetime.

Sad to say - this is likely going to turn out to be a very stupid idea.

They address it - but they're naively assuming that the glass won't wear down over time to a nice sheen by all the grit that will be constantly grinding away at it. And that it will apparently remain optically transparent while doing so.

Working on day 1 is easy. Working several years later is a much trickier problem that I don't believe they've even come *close* to addressing. Not to mention that replacing these tiles is going to cost orders of magnitude more than cheap asphalt.

No form of chiropractic (the bits involving subluxations and the like) has ever been shown to "work" more than placebo. And any of the "manipulation" they do that does "work" is better done by a properly trained physical therapist.

If my MD is referring me to a chiropractor then I need a new MD.

Not to mention it's all self-reported. "I didn't smell that bad." Humans quickly adjust to aromas, noises, etc. You never think you smell as much as you do.

I'm willing to bet she carved a path through crowds pretty well...

You don't drive much do you?

That was just... just terrible. It's like a child wrote it. Is that indicative of what the New Yorker is publishing these days?

"From the climate scientists and many environmentalists the attitude has seemingly been once that you prove that humans are causing some climate change that it automatically means that we have to stop whatever is causing that climate chang"

Well, sure. They're climate scientists not policy makers! The correct response to this is much more like what you've outlined - not to disparage the scientists, claim they're liars, and deny the evidence (which is what's happened).

It wouldn't be a conversation if there weren't disagreements.