France building 600 miles of solar roadway over next 5 years

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11. In ten years, we'll be seeing papers in all of the primary scientific literature about...

...leachates in French waterways, and concentrations of metals and organic flame retardants in places like breast milk and childhood livers.

(To be fair, not that our car CULTists care, we already can read tens of thousands of papers on this subject as a result of asphalt and other things related to the cars themselves, in particular, batteries.)

It's a well know effect, distributed material makes distributed pollution and it's been observed with all sorts of products that were supposed to "do good," fabric flame retardants, notably polybrominated diphenyl ethers being one of the most intractable example, although there are many others. There isn't a breast fed baby on this planet (or for that matter a cow milk fed baby on this planet) who doesn't begin his or her life ingesting polybrominated diphenyl ethers.

The stupid people who thought this was a good idea will not read any of this literature. 100% of them are scientifically illiterate. They know nothing technical at all, and in fact, despise technical insight, because they only believe what they want to hear.

The energy produced by this newly manufactured electronic waste will be trivial and very expensive, with the result that poor people who currently enjoy some of the lowest electricity rates in Europe because of France's nuclear power, will be forced to live in even worse conditions than they do now, when this stupid enterprise drives the cost of electricity to something like that in Germany and Denmark.

This is a disgrace. The ignorance that causes things like this will be unforgiven by history.