Aesthetic: green parking lots
They improve infiltration of water to the soil, thus reducing floods by excessive drainage from soil-sealed land, and contribute to environmental and human health! Also they look pretty.
Hell yeah
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The funniest thing about the war on cars video is that they unironically believe replacing parking lots with public parks is something horrible, fucking lol
Wtf I love war now
ENDLESS ELECTRICITY: Here’s A Way Of Turning America’s Roads Into Gigantic Solar Panels
There are about 31,251 square miles of roads, parking lots, driveways, playgrounds, bike paths, and sidewalks in the lower 48 states. If Julie and Scott Brusaw have their way, they will all someday be replaced with solar panels.
For the better part of a decade, the Idaho couple has been working on prototyping an industrial-strength panel that could withstand the weight of even the largest trucks. They now appear to have cracked the formula, developing a specially textured glass coating for the panels that can not only bear tremendous loads but also support standard tire traction.
By their reckoning, at peak installation their panelized roads could produce more than three times the electricity consumed in the U.S.
The material could power electric vehicles through a receiver plate mounted beneath the vehicle and a transmitter plate is installed in the road.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT AND UNBELIEVABLY DISAPPOINTING THAT IT’S GOTTEN SUCH LITTLE ATTENTION.
PEOPLE THINK ABOUT IT, JUST HOW MANY ROADS THERE ARE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND HOW MUCH ENERGY COULD BE PRODUCED USING THESE LIKE SERIOUSLY “THREE TIMES THE ELECTRICITY CONSUMED IN THE U.S”. IT’S NOT JUST GOING TO HELP REDUCE THE AMOUNTS OF GREEN HOUSE EMISSIONS, IT’S GOING TO CREATE JOBS IN THE COUNTRIES IT’S USED IN. IT HAS SO MUCH EXTRA STUFF IT’S UNBELIEVABLE HOW AMAZING THE ROAD COULD BE.
THESE PEOPLE ARE SAINTS, THEY’VE WORKED THEIR BUTTS OFF AND VOLUNTEERS HAVE WORKED JUST AS HARD TO GET TO THIS LEVEL BUT THEY STILL HAVE JUST UNDER $ 800,000 TO RAISE IN 15 DAYS.
THIS SORTA STUFF IS HOW WE’RE GOING TO CREATE A GREENER EARTH AND IT’S BEEN VIRTUALLY IGNORED BY TUMBLR. WE NEED TO SUPPORT THIS STUFF AND THESE SORTS OF PEOPLE WHO SELFLESSLY DEDICATE THEIR WORK TO CREATING A BETTER WORLD.
PLEASASASASASSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS.
NOT TO MENTION if cars are designed to RUN on this we would no longer need to burn fuel
No more buying gas.
I remember reblogging this last year and I’m SO glad to hear they met it was funded. 220%.
Anonymous asked:
My first day of university I drove down the bike path at my school not realizing it wasn't a small road leading to the parking lots.
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I appreciate y'all being like “omg pls stay safe at home and out of the flood” but like that’s not the kind of person I am man. I literally snuck past police today to get on campus and then basically broke into my workplace to help profs save stuff in their labs from the water. I’ve been helping my neighbors pull their cars out of the flooded parking lots and tomorrow a postdoc and I are going out and helping people evacuate with his boat. I need to help I can’t just board up in my house because that’s the safer option when people are stranded out there
I don’t see enough positivity for girls who BRAWL
- in parking lots
- in the middle of a corn field
- at funerals
- in the soup aisle of walmart at 3 am
- during thanksgiving dinner when their uncle is watching football instead of setting the goddamn table like he was asked to
I don’t see enough positivity for girls who BRAWL
- in parking lots
- in the middle of a corn field
- at funerals
- in the soup aisle of walmart at 3 am
- during thanksgiving dinner when their uncle is watching football instead of setting the goddamn table like he was asked to
I’ve been issued a total of 12 parking tickets during my time at uni, all of which had been falsely issued and then repealed. Parking enforcement is very aware of who I am because I very aggressively do not tolerate their disaster of a department.
But today takes the fucking cake of parking enforcement and their bullshittery. They reached peak clusterfuck today.
Parking enforcement gave me two tickets today, for two different lots, at the exact same time. Neither of which was the lot I was actually parked in.
I got both tickets appealed, with the appeals officer literally just making up some bullshit about how it was all a typo and how the second one was issued within 4 hours so that one didn’t count and he completely sidestepped my question of how I never got physical copies of either ticket so whatever typo bullshit he’s giving me doesn’t even make sense and he had the fucking audacity to tell me “yeah just don’t let it happen again” LET WHAT HAPPEN AGAIN? I WAS LEGALLY PARKED YOU JUST DECIDED YOU WERE GONNA FUCK UP MY DAY AND LITERALLY FABRICATE TICKETS FOR LOTS IM NOT EVEN PARKED IN
YOU DONT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN YOU FUCKHAT
I’ve been issued a total of 12 parking tickets during my time at uni, all of which had been falsely issued and then repealed. Parking enforcement is very aware of who I am because I very aggressively do not tolerate their disaster of a department.
But today takes the fucking cake of parking enforcement and their bullshittery. They reached peak clusterfuck today.
Parking enforcement gave me two tickets today, for two different lots, at the exact same time. Neither of which was the lot I was actually parked in.
I got both tickets appealed, with the appeals officer literally just making up some bullshit about how it was all a typo and how the second one was issued within 4 hours so that one didn’t count and he completely sidestepped my question of how I never got physical copies of either ticket so whatever typo bullshit he’s giving me doesn’t even make sense and he had the fucking audacity to tell me “yeah just don’t let it happen again” LET WHAT HAPPEN AGAIN? I WAS LEGALLY PARKED YOU JUST DECIDED YOU WERE GONNA FUCK UP MY DAY AND LITERALLY FABRICATE TICKETS FOR LOTS IM NOT EVEN PARKED IN
YOU DONT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN YOU FUCKHAT
I’ve been issued a total of 12 parking tickets during my time at uni, all of which had been falsely issued and then repealed. Parking enforcement is very aware of who I am because I very aggressively do not tolerate their disaster of a department.
But today takes the fucking cake of parking enforcement and their bullshittery. They reached peak clusterfuck today.
Parking enforcement gave me two tickets today, for two different lots, at the exact same time. Neither of which was the lot I was actually parked in.
