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Related: About this forumOops! Looks Like Shitstain's Border Wall Won't Have Solar Panels After All
President Trump insisted that a solar paneled border wall wasnt a joke. That it was his idea. That solar panels would help pay for his big, beautiful wall. But despite Trumps oft-repeated promotion of a solar wall, there is nary a solar panel in sight among the eight prototypes that have arisen in San Diego county this month.
Instead, the 30 by 30 foot structures scheduled to be completed this week feature concrete, steel or a combination of both. Five are solid. Three have slats to see through to the other side. Beauty, though, is in the eye of the beholder. One is painted royal blue. Another is stamped with a brick pattern, topped with sloped metal grating. All would evoke a prison feel if replicated for miles on end.
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I hate to say this, but its a huge waste of money to do the prototypes, said Steve Vulich, co-founder and vice president of the America First Foundation, a nonprofit whose self-described purpose is to raise money for causes that lack sufficient funding like the Great Southern Wall. Especially, he said, if there is no solar wall after all.
At least 70 percent of our audience who emails us wants solar panels. It should have been one of the priorities because they are going to need power out there, Vulich said. They are going to have to make it welcoming and environmentally friendly. I could do a computer model of a wall with solar panels with murals painted on it and it would just blow their minds.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/26/trumps-proposal-for-a-solar-border-wall-now-appears-dead/?utm_term=.874cbec016b8
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)invent a solar cell array that is a picture of Trump.
No-bid overpriced contract, here I come!
Permanut
(5,439 posts)I see.