What free range lunatics are up to

[midnight rambler]

Painting their streets white at the cost of $40K(!) a mile to combat 'man-made global warming'.

http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/us/2018/04/10/los-angeles-painting-city-streets-white-in-bid-to-combat-climate-change/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-9/inline_spotlight_ima/image.img.jpg/612/344/1523372302173.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/10/los-angeles-painting-city-streets-white-in-bid-to-combat-climate-change.html

[vacuum]

Someone should stand by the road holding a sign "make our streets white again".

lol that would stop this cold

[Cebu_4_2]

Anyone realize how bright this will make driving down any such road? Even with sunglasses there will be no way to avoid the glare. Unless it's raining. I think night will also have issues.

[Horn]

I think the plan is to take credit for it when the quiet Sun cools things down.

"Fuck snow blind delivery drivers, Look we cooled it off, keep your tax to us for maintenance!"

[old steel]

WTF? i see it with my eyes and i still don't believe it, somebody hand me a pair of vice grips.

[Neuro]

Actually it could be a good thing as it actually highlights one of the reasons as to why we had “global warming” measurements the last century. Many of the thermometers who previously was positioned in a green field ended up being near an asphalt road or parking lot, that absorb sun light, and warms up the near environment. Of course one may expect a good scientist to find out this relationship and exclude or at least calibrate those affected thermometers accordingly. Instead what happened was the opposite, those thermometers that didn’t record a big enough increase, were taken off line, as anomalous.

[ziero0]

Funny. That painted road looks like this gravel road which Omaha is reverting back to in order to cut costs

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/v2R0MXxnBTR0D0i-fwN6LSYLndE=/0x0:1500x1000/920x613/filters:focal(630x380:870x620)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/53595679/gravel_road_pavement.0.jpeg

Omaha returns to gravel roads to cut maintenance costs
https://www.curbed.com/2017/3/8/14848934/omaha-gravel-roads-infrastructure

How do you pay for fixing potholes after decades of neglect? For Omaha, Nebraska, it’s a rocky road. Literally. To avoid shelling out an estimated $300 million to pave the city’s disintegrating streets with asphalt, Omaha is instead tearing up the pock-marked roadways and covering them with gravel, according to a recent New York Times story.

It all started some four decades ago with developers building on the outskirts of Omaha and deciding to save a few bucks by paving the streets with asphalt instead of concrete. When the city expanded its borders, it took in these shoddily paved neighborhoods and their many potholes. Street repair crews couldn’t keep up and the costs only increased as the roadways got worse and worse.

Eventually, the city felt that they had to turn to an unlikely solution: just go back to gravel. Much less costly than re-paving, gravel roads are also easier for the city to maintain. Last year, 27 states converted streets from pavement to gravel.

[Camp Bassfish]

Anyone realize how bright this will make driving down any such road? Even with sunglasses there will be no way to avoid the glare. Unless it's raining. I think night will also have issues.

Not to mention slippery when wet** and will pollute as well.... just when it couldn't get any more incredible...


** I don't buy their bullshit that it's not.

[cheka.]

i see local stories like this regularly -- involving at least two hit and runs on same person. it's great to live in a third world diverse sh-thole (houston)

http://www.texaspolicenews.com/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=News+1-2&newsletterid=70347&menugroup=Home

Detectives are asking for the public's help finding two drivers who separately struck and killed a motorcyclist before fleeing the scene in southwest Houston.

The crash happened in the early morning hours of March 11 in the 6700 block of the Southwest Freeway, near Hillcroft Avenue. The motorcyclist was driving on the feeder road when a blue sedan struck the motorcycle.

The motorcyclist was knocked off into the middle of the road. That's when the victim was struck again by a dark-colored pickup truck, police said.

Both drivers who struck the motorcyclist fled the scene, police said.

[madfranks]

Anyone realize how bright this will make driving down any such road? Even with sunglasses there will be no way to avoid the glare. Unless it's raining. I think night will also have issues.Just wait until a rainstorm clears and the roads are wet and glaring. It'll be almost impossible to drive!

Earlier this year after a snowstorm, the roads were iced over and the next morning we were driving to church and the clear sun in the early morning created the most staggering glare I've ever seen on the white iced roads. Thankfully I did have sunglasses, it would have been very difficult to drive without them.

[osoab]

What happens when the paint peels?

[midnight rambler]

What happens when the paint peels?

We apply another coating.

This was a super mega score for the coating company. I betcha dollars to donuts a member of the tribe owns the coating company.

[JDRock]

Waayysist!

[madfranks]

Waayysist!Since white roads are preferred in Los Angeles now, I suppose that does make them racist. These are privileged roads now.

[Horn]

I suppose some here have joined the free range, by suggesting that white persons are preferred color in an overpopulated and warming planet.

Its only logical... that black people add to heat island effect

Heat island effect does not warm the planet and why it is only effectual at island.

If it were the case black solar panels could be the worse possible placement on the planet and leaves on trees made monochrome in color.

I argue White most effectively warms the planet by reheating water vapor in the atmosphere from both sides.

[Horn]

Any normal study should lead to roads painted GREEN in any case.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOf92afI5LI

[equyst]

subscribed, this seems like a very interesting threadhttp://gshort.click/buluhidung/58/o.png

[Joshua01]

I think someone already pointed this out but the glare will be atrocious! Who says these people are 'intelligent'?

[singular_me]

as long as money exists, I trust the "human conditioning" to turn almost anything into insane profits

it is the "presence of money".... and ((they)) know it.

[madfranks]

I suppose some here have joined the free range, by suggesting that white persons are preferred color in an overpopulated and warming planet.

Its only logical... that black people add to heat island effect

Heat island effect does not warm the planet and why it is only effectual at island.

If it were the case black solar panels could be the worse possible placement on the planet and leaves on trees made monochrome in color.

I argue White most effectively warms the planet by reheating water vapor in the atmosphere from both sides.

I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but really, the amount of energy radiated into the atmosphere from the road surface doesn't really change because of this, just the timing. With a black road, the road will absorb the solar energy, get warm, and then dissipate this heat/energy all night long after the sun sets. With a white road, more of that solar energy will just reflect immediately, rather than be absorbed only to dissipate later. So... what's the benefit? As far as I can tell the only thing this does is change the timing of the reflected solar energy.

[osoab]

I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but really, the amount of energy radiated into the atmosphere from the road surface doesn't really change because of this, just the timing. With a black road, the road will absorb the solar energy, get warm, and then dissipate this heat/energy all night long after the sun sets. With a white road, more of that solar energy will just reflect immediately, rather than be absorbed only to dissipate later. So... what's the benefit? As far as I can tell the only thing this does is change the timing of the reflected solar energy.

That's nonsense! The sun has no impact on warming. :rolleyes:

[Horn]

That's nonsense! The sun has no impact on warming. :rolleyes:

Though it does drive the stock market.

[Joshua01]

I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but really, the amount of energy radiated into the atmosphere from the road surface doesn't really change because of this, just the timing. With a black road, the road will absorb the solar energy, get warm, and then dissipate this heat/energy all night long after the sun sets. With a white road, more of that solar energy will just reflect immediately, rather than be absorbed only to dissipate later. So... what's the benefit? As far as I can tell the only thing this does is change the timing of the reflected solar energy. Seriously dude? You're actually trying to rationalize this bullshit? I took you for a smart guy! (only kidding)

[osoab]

Seriously dude? You're actually trying to rationalize this bullshit? I took you for a smart guy!

madfranks was mocking the decision.

[Cebu_4_2]

subscribed, this seems like a very interesting threadhttp://gshort.click/buluhidung/58/o.png

It really is, I am glad you subscribed to it!

[Neuro]

subscribed, this seems like a very interesting threadhttp://gshort.click/buluhidung/58/o.png

Maybe you could expand on what you find interesting, have a discussion, so that the paranoid among us doesn’t start to think you are a data mining op.

[Joshua01]

madfranks was mocking the decision. ...and I was poking fun at madfranks....its all good