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Amid the fallout of the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to embrace an environmentally-friendly solution to what he calls the country's immigration crisis: Suggesting that solar panels could cover his border wall, two government sources told NBC News.
Amid the fallout of the United States' withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to embrace an environmentally-friendly solution to what he calls the country's immigration crisis: Suggesting that solar panels could cover his border wall, two government sources told NBC News.
Sure, that way he can charge for electricity...another way to fill his coffers. This idea clearly appropriated from already in-place cooperatives in Mexico and the US that are sharing solar grids...
It's just another one of his spontaneous thoughtless ideas.
This is how business people operate, they throw out ideas that may reduce costs. Some stick and some don't.
The pro's of such an idea are that you are putting solar panels into an area very suitable for them. You are mot disrupting the environment in an area that is not already going to be disrupted. By combining it into an existing project you are saving money. You now have all the power required for things like motion sensors, lights and cameras.
Downside has already been mentioned.... If they were to go forward with this considerations would have to be made for where they were placing them where vandalism is unlikely to occur.
I'm surprised at the negative response to this proposal. If you're going to have a freestanding structure in an area full of sunlight, why not add solar panels?
Regarding vandalism by residents of foreign countries, if the US is so poor at protecting itself from violent aggression against government structures, then we have a much bigger issue that only underscores a need for a wall. Is our country so weak that we are afraid to do something that benefits our country (lots and lots of solar panels) simply because they may be destroyed by nationals of another country. Yikes.
Also, I'm surprised that we finally have a government proposal that ISN'T full of financial waste and people act as though it is some evil enterprise to derive a profit. I would LOVE it if more of our government projects had revenue-producing elements to defray the costs.
Is our "us against him" mentality so strong that we are going to treat every single proposal as instantly terrible?
Last edited by NYCresident2014; 06-08-2017 at 09:28 AM..
I'm surprised at the negative response to this proposal. If you're going to have a freestanding structure in an area full of sunlight, why not add solar panels?
Regarding vandalism by residents of foreign countries, if the US is so poor at protecting itself from violent aggression against government structures, then we have a much bigger issue that only underscores a need for a wall. Is our country so weak that we are afraid to do something that benefits our country (lots and lots of solar panels) simply because they may be destroyed by nationals of another country. Yikes.
Also, I'm surprised that we finally have a government proposal that ISN'T full of financial waste and people act as though it is some evil enterprise to derive a profit. I would LOVE it if more of our government projects had revenue-producing elements to defray the costs.
Is our "us against him" mentality so strong that we are going to treat every single proposal as instantly terrible?
Well, we've seen of late how this is what happens with that family...
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