Intermediate's Debate Competition R1: US Gov should implement solar road highways within the US

Contention 1: Jellyfish My opponent repetitively fails to respond to this argument throughout this debate. First I stated that the panels will use jellyfish proteins in round 2, (. http://www.greenoptimistic.com...) then I showed that in the last round that killing off jellyfish leads to a massive amount of plankton build-up which causes an environmental collapse! My opponent states that Brusaw will not use them, but my opponent has been vague throughout the debate and has not stated how much road, how much cost, or where, so we can only assume that they will go cheap and use solar cells which are jellyfish proteins as stated before. Pro states that this won't be a problem due to the swarms, but I told you a story in round 2 to tell you another story in round 3. The massive jellyfish population is having a hard fight to keep the plankton in line that if you start killing them you will see a massive plankton boom. This, as stated before, will damage the ecosystem. Contention 2: NF3My opponent said that there was no source given for the study, but let me repost it again since I had done so in the last round, but apparently Pro did not see it. (. http://www.wfs.org...) and (. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu...) My opponent yet again makes an assumption when her assumptions are actually a reality! This study is real and the panels do use NF3. Yes there is certain amount of restraint, but that is here in the US. (. http://www.solar-facts.com...) If you look the US is not the leader in solar panel producers and that means that we have to look to the leaders. According to the article the winners of that title is Australia and China. China the nation known for it's massive pollution known as smoggedon is one of the leaders and they do not care about the environment so that means my opponent's argument about regulations is invalid. (. http://kellygallagher.org...'s%20Pollution.pdf) As pointed out again that most panels use NF3 and most say they don't, because they don't release a highly large amount into the atmosphere. It's just like the food we eat. It can still have fat, but be called fat free just because it meets a government minimal standard. Contention 3: Economy My opponent brings up the funding so I shall now assault that. As I have brought up before in round 2. Obama gave solar panel companies big money ($16 billion), which is the amount Pro is stating and they have gone bankrupt. What makes Pro believe that this plan will even work when a similar one had been done and the two companies entrusted with this program had gone bankrupt! (. http://news.investors.com...) Secondly, the amount of money that was offered up was for solar companies, the money was meant to go around and be shared between many different solar companies not just Brusaw's project. The website Pro offers states that electricity will not, but that is not true. In 2008 it was found that it cost 2 cents per kilowatt to produce solar energy, but only cost .064 cents to produce a kilowatt of natural gas. (. http://solarcellcentral.com...) So when the prices add up you can see that overall one that use to be on natural gas for their electricity will see an increase when it changes over to solar. This is a fact that outweighs Pro's speculation on the solar roadways site. Pro states that bringing up the example was invalid since it was not solar roads, but this point itself is invalid because it shows that they are like projects doing things that actually cost less than what Pro is predicting and still went bankrupt! This shows that a project like this cannot survive. Contention 4: EnvironmentI have show that the over fishing of jellyfish will hurt the ecosystem and that the project will fail causing a loss in the fight against Global Warming due to the overproduction of NF3 in China and other nations. Just because the US is trying to save the environment doesn't mean that other nations are on board. The US will buy from China for this technology, because lets face it. In today's world almost everything is made in China. ConclusionIn conclusion, we can see that we have to look at all the points of a solution when we try to fix a problem. Though it is project to produce tons of power we can actually see that when it is made abroad and even in the US it is produced with NF3 which warms the atmosphere 17000 times more than CO2 and when you compare the cost of living with those two power sources the cost of solar is much more than the cost of natural gas which will warm the Earth less than the NF3 that the panels produce. The panels also use jellyfish proteins, or also known as "solar cells", which an overhunt of the jellyfish will lead to a population boom of plankton which release dangerous chemicals which kill the ocean ecosystem around them. Plans like this have been tried before with the same amount of money and failed! So if you enjoy mother nature and want to protect her for future generations and would also like to protect the economy while doing it.