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| coppice:
--- Quote from: RJSV on November 25, 2024, 08:23:19 pm --- Apparently, the 'climate helper' agreement served to INCREASE an existing program that right now is at $100 billion. So, it goes up, to $300. That means that there should be some records, of how things are going so far. Some of the poor countries are concerned (that they got skipped; left out of the deal.) Somehow, I bet with a little bit of digging, could access some existing cases. Fraudulent activities generally get hidden, but who knows....? --- End quote --- Do you expect any of this money to NOT have been spirited away by corruption? Seems awfully optimistic. |
| RJSV:
No I'd bet that is over 50 % fraud. I mean, even with transparency, there still can be solar roads, where the numbers (science, remember ?) numbers indicate not really that much energy, vs cost to build. I'm saying in lack of any real challenge, that project would roll out just fine....Who's to say what's efficient and what isn't ? That data is out there right now, if one could get it. A low efficiency solar road stretch might not get any challenge, or demands to justify. I would have to research that science, to 'catch' any fraud or simple impracticable. Does the UN do that evaluation ?p Like reader said, here, the U.N. struggles to perform the job they already have. Who, then ? Dave ! Comes to mind. |
| Ice-Tea:
--- Quote from: RJSV on November 25, 2024, 09:13:56 pm ---No I'd bet that is over 50 % fraud. I mean, even with transparency, there still can be solar roads, where the numbers (science, remember ?) numbers indicate not really that much energy, vs cost to build. I'm saying in lack of any real challenge, that project would roll out just fine....Who's to say what's efficient and what isn't ? --- End quote --- I'll repeat the question: "Just to be clear: there is NO actual proposal to subsidize any kind of dodgy or debunked techology, right?" This thread has a very high level of "old man yelling at cloud" in it. |
| Analog Kid:
See article here, All about Solar Roadways: the promise versus the reality. (The viral video to which Rick's title refers is actually "".) The verdict: almost a complete bust. Super-expen$ive, can't hold up to traffic, produces far less energy than touted. In China a demo project was shut down after, among other problems, thieves made off with some of the solar panels! In other words, not a thing. |
| Ice-Tea:
I'm very aware that solar roadways are very, very dumb. That wasn't the question. The question was: is there an actual proposal to subsidize such a dodgy and/or debunked technology? |
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