Imagine Buenos Aires In 2030

[scotttswan]

Kinda sad that the Solar panels aren't here now in 2014.

http://concursos.buenosaires.gob.ar/#/challenge/53e1269ce2e84c716200000c

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[camberiu]

I tend to picture something more akin to this:

 

[lucha54]

hey now Negative Nancys..... too bad that world peace hasn't arrived yet either but at least there are people thinking about making things better. B)

 

[mimyr]

Maybe recycling bins will finally be as common as the garbage baskets.

 

[pauper]

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[LeoNubarron]

Kinda sad that the Solar panels aren't here now in 2014.

http://concursos.bue...2e84c716200000c

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solar panels are a horrible idea. cost inefective - expensive to make, costly to make a battery for- unreliable - the list goes on and on. unless some major breakthrough in theoretical science will be discovered and an application will be made for it and fossil and nuclear energy fail entirely for some bizarre reason there will be no good reason to have solar panels in 2030

 

[ghost]

solar panels are a horrible idea. cost inefective - expensive to make, costly to make a battery for- unreliable - the list goes on and on. unless some major breakthrough in theoretical science will be discovered and an application will be made for it and fossil and nuclear energy fail entirely for some bizarre reason there will be no good reason to have solar panels in 2030

Damn that's good to know. I'm sending a memo off to MIT right now so they stop wasting time on solar. Thanks.

 

[Chet]

Damn that's good to know. I'm sending a memo off to MIT right now so they stop wasting time on solar. Thanks.

Silly, MIT and the like is whats needed, not manufacturing and pipe dream installations.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

solar panels are a horrible idea. cost inefective - expensive to make, costly to make a battery for- unreliable - the list goes on and on. unless some major breakthrough in theoretical science will be discovered and an application will be made for it and fossil and nuclear energy fail entirely for some bizarre reason there will be no good reason to have solar panels in 2030

Fossil and nuclear are already failing.

 

[camberiu]

The reality is that solar power is NOT an efficient way of generating energy and it might never become one. Producing the photovoltaic cells themselves consumers a RIDICULOUS amount of power and generates a lot of chemical waste. The fact that they only work well on on bright sunny days reduces their efficiency even further. And if you add the costs and energy to build the storage batteries that accompanies them, you end up with one of the most inefficient and environmentally unfriendly energy sources imaginable.