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Solar Wall... BUSTED (Patreon)

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2017-07-08 18:34:57
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Solar roadways was a dumb idea, that merely burned 2-4 million dollars.  Solar Walls would be a dumb idea that would cost 1000 times more!

Solar panels in the right venue are pretty good.  However lots of Sun is not the only thing you need for solar panels.  They really only make sense when they are built near the grid..... and the grid doesnt run down the US Mexico border!  To add it there would add another billion dollars to the cost of the wall.

Honestly, if you have a billion dollars of solar panels.... just make a solar farm.  If you put them on a wall, they are more expensive to install, more expensive to maintain, and away from the power infrastructure they need to be part of to transport the generated electricity! Grrr!

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Solar WALL... BUSTED

So Trump wants to build a wall... a SOLAR POWERED wall. He basically wants to build a wall and make the Sun pay for it.... what can possibly go wrong with such a perfect plan......maybe FACTS... or REALITY! You can support this channel directly through pateron: https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t

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Anonymous

Am I the only one that thinks this might be the third time this has been released? I know "they" are thick, but I understood it in the first debunking. (Grin) (Don't think I am discouraging, these topics are important to review and criticize.)

Chris

There's a much simpler way to show that it's a bogus idea: if a line of solar panels could generate enough income to pay for themselves plus a $15+ billion wall, then someone would have done it already, without the expensive wall part. Beyond that, I think your cost estimate for the power lines is extremely inaccurate. A big portion of that cost (probably most of it) is for the towers. In the case of the wall, we could just string the lines from some supports that are built into the wall, and that would be much cheaper. The lines themselves could even be cheaper because the supports could be at much shorter intervals, so the lines won't need to be nearly as strong. So, it should overall cost a fraction of your estimate. The solar panels, however, are a different story. There's a reason that major installations arrange them in a grid rather than a line. Every extra foot of line needed between the panel and transformer adds both cost and resistance (wasted power). And this is all DC circuitry; I don't think there's a super cheap and efficient way to raise the voltage to reduce that waste. Can you even wire a bunch of solar panels in series without damaging them or losing power? Anyway, you'll end up with a lot of long power lines that are way longer, thicker, and more expensive than they otherwise would be. And you'll still need more transformers than a grid setup would need. The only advantage of this system is that the panels would be easier to clean if they are all in a row. You could basically send a specially made cleaning machine out, and it would drive the entire length of the wall - at least for the portions that can be reached by road. For the very inaccessible portions, I'd just say "screw it" and not install panels there at all; it's where they would be most expensive and least useful anyway.

Anonymous

On top of that, electrify it. Who needs a solid wall when you can make electrons do the work for you.

Anonymous

Um, cheap energy ... attract manufacturing .. or how about internet server nodes?

Anonymous

use to split water to produce hydrogen to be distributed as needed ....

Anonymous

A wall will be around more that 30 - 40 years

Niclas Hedhman

You don't get it. The panel is to power high-intensity lasers that will shoot down all those Mexicans that are trying to steal the solar panels to sell.. Don't you realize that the security system to protect them needs the power alone. And of course Mexico will pay for the solar panels as well, since the panels will power the lasers to protect the panels from being stolen and installed in Mexico by Mexican. Obvious!!!!

Josef Angeria

11 minutes until "science".. this is not good. I bet most gets the "Trump is dumb" part already so why waste video space.. Are you running out of ideas TF?