Posted on 06/07/2017 1:09:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: How about Trump’s idea of solar panels on the wall? Now, when I heard that yesterday, “I’ve heard this. I’ve seen this proposed somewhere else.” And you know who proposed it almost a year ago? I’ll have to check. I’ve got the Stack.
The guy that does the Dilbert cartoon has been a Trumpist, and he had a long column suggesting not just a wall with solar panels, but make it, you know, sell condos there and make it entire development typical of what Trump would do. And I remembered having seen it, so I went back and I found it from the archives of saved show prep. And, lo and behold, there it is right there. This guy predicted or suggested solar panels — this is a year ago — solar panels on the top of the wall.
So Trump has come along and suggested it and some people don’t know what to make of it. Is Trump teasing them? Is he ragging ’em? Is he jagging ’em? Or does he really mean it? And the Dilbert cartoon guy thinks it’s neither. And he doesn’t think Trump is copying him. He thinks that there are certain personality types. You have people that are oriented in politics, you have people oriented in economics, in other words, whatever scenario they see politics, whatever scenario they see economics.
The Dilbert guy says that he and Trump are probably different types of personalities. They are persuaders. And so the idea of solar panels on top of the wall is not political; it’s not economical; it’s persuasive. It is a way to bring people to you and your idea. And, you know, a lot of people have said today that Trump is copying or stealing his idea, and he’s written about this: No, no, no, no, no. I don’t think Trump’s stealing. I think our personality types are the same. We have similar views, and we are persuaders. We don’t need to copy each other because we think in the same way.
But can you imagine — the thing I love about this, you know, you get past the motivations, why did Trump do it, my preferred reason is that he’s just jamming ’em. “Okay, you leftists, you don’t like that I pulled out of the Paris Accord, but you can’t oppose solar panels. You support solar panels wherever they are. Solar panels on top of igloos. Solar panels in places where polar bears live. Solar panels on the new Apple spaceship campus. Solar panels, I’m gonna put ’em on my wall.”
I saw it, I laughed, “I’ve seen this before.” And then I noticed all of these people in the blogosphere wringing their hands trying to figure out if Trump’s serious or if he’s making a joke, does he know what he’s doing. The same predictable reactions that you get from the various opposition factions, people opposed to Trump.
Sell the excess electricity to Mexico, to pay off the wall.
Make Democrat donors lobby for the wall, to dip their snouts into the “Green” contracts for solar panels.
They’d get stolen.
Why not nuclear panels? Cheap power AND another incentive to avoid it.
LOL
How can the left say no to that!
Can you imagine getting to the top of a wall to find red-hot solar panels to be the next hurdle to overcome?
solar panels huh? That might be a good power source for the robotic machine gun turrets.
trump is a genius at selling
Only if the power is used to run the surveillance system and electrification systems!
Or vandalized. Put any sort of power or communications infrastructure on the wall and it'll have to be protected by razor-wire and fencing on *both* sides.
Given the current state of affairs, the north side fence is probably the more important.
It's a renewable energy source so democrats should love it!
I love it. Hehehehehe
Like the Remote Sentry Guns in the Aliens movie!They are perfect because they were designed to stop aliens.
USE the solar panels to power the lasers that will remove intruders.
Use the juice to electrify the barbed wire.
Good idea, provided they put a barbed wire on the top of the fence.
Any attempt to damage to wall should be met with deadly force. If someone was at your house, pulling down your carport to steal its wood, what would you do? How about coming on board the U.S.S. America and trying to fly off a AV-8B Harrier? Would bullets fly?
The solar panels would not be there long ...
Should power the electric fence....
BIG FAIL
... and I am still waiting to hear the big why??
... still waiting ...
... okay, I give up, I do not hear the answer.
THE ANSWER IS, why is a solar panel wall a big fail?
The Border Wall is facing the wrong direction. Mexico is south of the wall. Solar sun comes from the southern sky. The solar panel wall would be facing Mexico, and would be great target practice from Mexico.
It is impossible to move the sun into the northern sky where the wall side is protected by the USA.
Tell President Trump that I am sorry to break the bad news.
* sigh * — Signed Experienced Engineer
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