Posted on 06/07/2017 12:11:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What an amusing and brilliant idea to completely screw the Left.
Cover the top of the wall with solar panels, then sting barbed wire all along the edges of the panels.
Problem:
They will have to be on the south-facing side, where they are open to random pot-shots by south-living shooters.
Stupid idea.
They would be to power the electrified portions of the wall, right?
Would need large capacitance storage for the laser beams.
Reminds me of the story about the “Pearly Gates”.
One day, St. Peter goes to God and says, “There is a mob from Detroit at the pearly gates, and they want to be let in”. God told him to let them in and St Peter returned breathless a few minutes later and told God, “They’re gone...they’re gone”. God asked, “The mob from Detroit?” St. Peter said, “No, the pearly gates”.
Same with the solar panels.
Why?
Sun bump
Didn't Art Bell quit his radio program after claiming someone was shooting towards his "KINGDOM OF NYE" property?
Doesn’t the sun rise in the east and set in the west? Couldn’t you make the top in a saw tooth configuration with panels facing in both directions?
Electrify it ?
Countin’ flowers on the wall
it don’t bother me at all!
I live pretty far north so I always think in terms of south-facing but I guess that’s not so important down on the border.
Not just solar panels, how about a two way set of elevated speed mag-trains that run from the Gulf to San Diego area, with spur connections to San Antonio, Albuquerque, and Pheonix. All the panels along the whole lenth could provide more than enough power to motivate several trains in each direction. The remaining power could be used to charge battery/capacitor banks that sit in reserve for the motion activated lasers that shoot anything between the sets of walls
Ripoffs and shots-at.
You know the ripoffs will be huge.
Cost of wall: $x.
Cost of solar panels for wall: $10x.
Put them on ground level on the north side of the wall.
Put a water aqueduct running along the top and suck salt water out of the gulf and convey it to Kalifornia where they can desalt it using solar panels or fill up the Salton Sea.
Because the cost of maintaining them and repairing them and replacing them when they get vandalized will far exceed any economic benefit they might generate.
I like this idea but I would like to offer an improvement. You could evaporate the salt out of the water on the way from the Gulf to California. You could have a third wall with the water pipes and staged pumping stations along the way, and the solar panels along that length will power the steam distillation process.
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