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Re: Solar Roadways
« Reply #180 on: June 10, 2014, 11:18:50 PM »
You don't need to evacuate a city when a highway breaks.

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« Reply #181 on: June 11, 2014, 01:19:26 AM »
You can't evacuate a city when the highways break...

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Re: Solar Roadways
« Reply #182 on: June 11, 2014, 01:30:14 AM »
You can't evacuate a city when the highways break...
That would be true if highways were the only roads.

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« Reply #183 on: June 11, 2014, 01:31:41 AM »
You are correct because there will never be another natural disaster.

Highways can get destroyed during earthquakes, therefore highways are too dangerous to build. All roads should be dirt roads, because even though dirt roads are less safe and cost more to maintain than highways, they are not as susceptible to earthquakes as highways.

Highways don't contaminate the environment for tens of thousands of years when they break.
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« Reply #184 on: June 11, 2014, 06:50:41 AM »
It also brought no harm to anyone whatsoever. Yes, sometimes shit breaks. We're talking about safety, not hype.
it's 2014 and not 1986
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Re: Solar Roadways
« Reply #185 on: June 11, 2014, 12:35:39 PM »
An entirely unfounded one (given that it's 2014 and not 2011), but yes, it sadly is one.

Fixed.

The Fukushima plant suffered an earthquake, tsunami, fires and lack of maintenance due to the aforementioned natural disasters and yet it still leaked very little radiation into the wider world.

Fun fact, coal reactors produce much more waste radiation

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

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« Reply #186 on: June 11, 2014, 07:02:04 PM »
Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.

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« Reply #187 on: June 11, 2014, 07:04:29 PM »
Fun fact

Irrelevant. The implicit claim was that nuclear plants had been safe since 1986.

This is not safe:



Highways can get destroyed during earthquakes,

Irrelevant. This thread is about nuclear power plants and their safety. Not highways.

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« Reply #188 on: June 11, 2014, 07:07:48 PM »
Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.

Yeah. Function creep.

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« Reply #189 on: June 11, 2014, 07:50:00 PM »
This is not safe:



An explosion (that ends up harming nobody - safe!) can happen to most types of high-energy power plants. It's kind of implied by the "high-energy" part of it.
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« Reply #190 on: June 11, 2014, 07:58:34 PM »
An explosion (that ends up harming nobody - safe!) can happen to most types of high-energy power plants. It's kind of implied by the "high-energy" part of it.

lol but no. Just because its high energy doesn't mean we should just shrug when it explodes.

Or: What does a risk matrix for a nuclear power plant look like?

I agree generally that there should be more nuclear power plants, but there's no denying that Fukushima was an accident.
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« Reply #191 on: June 11, 2014, 08:53:25 PM »
lol but no. Just because its high energy doesn't mean we should just shrug when it explodes.
We shouldn't shrug, and I never claimed we should. However, we're not banning coal because zomg it might break. Hilariously enough, that would be more harmful to people than a modern nuclear plant "disaster".

there's no denying that Fukushima wasn't an accident.
Erm, then what was it? Did the Jews do it?
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« Reply #192 on: June 11, 2014, 09:37:59 PM »
However, we're not banning coal because zomg it might break.

Because it doesn't.

Your article about nuclear vs coal seems to ignore the crucial radioactive waste. Imma guess that shit is pretty radioactive.

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Re: Solar Roadways
« Reply #193 on: June 12, 2014, 01:31:12 AM »
Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.



He does.
He also doesn't seem to understand that glass comes in a wide variety of makeup.
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« Reply #194 on: June 12, 2014, 01:37:59 AM »
Irrelevant. This thread is about nuclear power plants and their safety. Not highways.

Looks like you're having trouble in yet another thread. You should start reading thread titles before posting in them.  There is another thread about nuclear roadways if you want to discuss the safety of nuclear power.

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« Reply #195 on: June 12, 2014, 04:50:13 PM »
Thunderf00t really hates solar freakin' roadways.



He does.
He also doesn't seem to understand that glass comes in a wide variety of makeup.

Maybe he also gets a broken iPhone and sees if the gorilla glass can wear away asphalt. Of course the tempered glass of a coffee pot should be just fine, seeing as part of the original video showed them shoveling recycled glass into a wheelbarrow presumably to make these roadway tiles.
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« Reply #196 on: June 12, 2014, 05:22:09 PM »
The guy was just using stock footage to show using "recycled glass", I wouldn't take it too literally.

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« Reply #197 on: June 12, 2014, 07:26:53 PM »
The guy was just using stock footage to show using "recycled glass", I wouldn't take it too literally.
Stock footage specifically featuring himself and his wife?

He does.
He also doesn't seem to understand that glass comes in a wide variety of makeup.
This argument is simultaneously used to argue two points:
  • The glass will be cheap.
  • The glass will be sturdy.

In either case, it won't be cheap enough or sturdy enough, but a much more pressing problem here is that you can't have it both ways.
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« Reply #198 on: June 12, 2014, 07:29:02 PM »
The guy was just using stock footage to show using "recycled glass", I wouldn't take it too literally.
Stock footage specifically featuring himself and his wife?
Oh did it? I didn't notice.

Can't you just melt glass and re-work it anyway?

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« Reply #199 on: June 12, 2014, 11:03:53 PM »
I don't know if it can be done, but it's certainly not practical.
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