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

Contention 1: JellyfishMy opponent tries to turn this on me, but she doesn't seem to be getting the point here. Over hunting the jellyfish will not help it will just desturb the ballance and threaten the ecosystem again. You see orginally we have this problem because of overfishing, but if we attack jellyfish it will lead to an increase of HAB (harmful alge blooms) which release poisionous chemicals killing the ecosystem around them! (http://oceanservice.noaa.gov...) Jellyfish eat the alge and the phytoplankton which keeps the ecosytem up. (http://www.jellywatch.org...) The jellyfish help keep them under control keeping the ecosystem from collapsing and we all know that the ocean has absorb half of all man made CO2 pollution and destroying that will spead up Global warming up drematticly which outweighs Pro's benefits. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com...) Contention 2: NF3Actaully according to a study done by Ray Weiss and his team at the University of California–San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography most companies do use NF3. The reason that most companies state they do not have it is that most of the NF3 is either destroyed or reused, but not all of it is! The ammount that escapes to the atmosphere is 4-16%, is still overall a terrible thing because it warms our atmosphere 17,000 times more than CO2! Over the span of 30 years the NF3 levels have increase from .02 parts per trillion to .452 parts per trillion in 2008 and this is due to our lust for green energy. They also find that it is growing at the rate of 11% per year! We must counter this number not skyrocket it this is exactly what Pro's plan is going to do! (http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu...) and (http://www.wfs.org...) Contention 3: The EconomyThough this plan seems to good to be true Pro still hasn't answered the world's most important questions. Where are we getting this money? How much will it cost all together? When and where will it take place? Who will be adminstrating the plan? You see these are some important economical questions that can't go unanswered. You see we are just getting out of a recession. Republicans in the House would most definately block this plan asking for millions per mile when you have no money left in the reserve and trillions of dollars in debt it looks impossible like this plan would be popular. You can also see that we are trying to reduce our debt in the US (as rediculious as that might seem), but we want numbers to go down not up in those figures and a plan like this we want money back pronto. As extend across my solar arguement from last round. Obama has given the green industry money and they've gone bankrupt! Proving that this plan fails when funded via the federal government!Contention 4: The Envirnment You can easily tie this with my ecosystem/ jellyfish arguement. You can see that it is not very efficant. The inventor predicted it's failure which can't be good and though it produce good clean energy it has a few other things that come along with it causing the disadvantages to outweigh the advantages. Conclusion At the end of the day solar roads gives you energy, an increased debt, probably won't pass or work due to banruptcy, and they destroy the envirnment with NF3, and overfishing jellyfish causing an alge boom that kills the ecosytem.