Solar roads

1. Solyndra and economics My opponent states that Solyndra hasn't failed in other nations, but that's Europe! And this is America. There is a difference between the two both economicly and geographicly. Secondly I offer this card to shead some light on this. _____Solar Panels projects under Obama fail. Snyder 12 (Jim Synder, Ph. D in business, written April 20th, 2012, . http://www.bloomberg.com..., accessed October 11th, 2012, AL) The failure of a second solar manufacturer that received loan guarantees from the U. S. Energy Department adds to pressure on President Barack Obama to justify incentives for the clean-energy industry that’s being undercut by Chinese competition. Abound Solar Inc. , a U. S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a $400 million loan guarantee in 2010, said yesterday it will suspend operations and file for bankruptcy next week. Abound said its thin-film panels couldn’t competeagainst Chinese products, the same reason cited by Solyndra LLC, which closed its doors in August after receiving a $535 million guarantee from the same program. Half of the four solar manufacturers that received loan guarantees have failed, supporting the argument that backing clean-energy is a mistake, according to Representative Cliff Stearns. My opponent states that solar power can easily replace natural gas, but that statement is incorrect for several reasons. A) Natural gas is abundent due to the new natural resources that US private companies have uncovered and they have showned that there's enough in these reserves to last the US the rest of the century. . http://views.washingtonpost.com...) Solar power is a low density source that it can only power light appliance, but not larger ones such as fridges, washers, etc. .. Brusaw, the man who invented this project had stated that solar power would be very very expensive. _____Solar Highways cost $4.4 million per sq. mile. Patterson 11 (Thom Patterson, CNN reporter, (Brusaw is the founder of solar highways), written January 19th, 2011, . http://www.cnn.com..., accessed October 10th, 2012, AL) How much would the solar highway cost? Brusaw calculates an estimated cost -- in great detail --on his website. Short answer: each mile would cost $4.4 million. Payoff? Not only that but many experts state that though it's a great technology it's not economic. . http://www.sciencedaily.com... make things worse from the Silicon Valley (Solar Power field in California) has reported that the costs of maintaining solar pannels outweigh the benefits. . http://gigaom.com...; 2. JellyfishMy opponet says that I'm just speculating, but that's false, because on the fact of that sciencist already use jellyfish protiens in solar pannels . http://www.popsci.com..., the reason that we don't see the massive impact now is because we currently don't have a massive production of solar pannels. SO since you see that I actually have evidence here so you can extend my arguemnts here.3. Envirnment My opponent dropps almost all of my harms That I brought up. So let me copy and paste them again so to see if he can see them for the final round. Plus it's going to take tons of energy to remove the existing roads and put in the solar roads. Here's some more scarey facts for you. Did you know that solar panels are actually deadly? It uses NF3 which if it escapes into the atmosphere it can be truely deadly. NF3 warms the atmosphere 17000 times more than CO2. Now how are we going to fix the envirnment with something that bad. . http://www.renewableenergygeek.ca... have the solar power gives humans radiation posioning which leads to cancer. Here's some more evidence to back this up if you don't like that source . http://www.ehow.com...ConclusionWe are here today to debate solar roads and solar energy, but as you can see not only does it hurt the average Joe, but it also kills O3, aka Ozone.