on one hand, I am (or at least imagine myself to be) a progressive with a lot of hope for technology's capacity to improve the future.

on the other hand, who is this random couple that just earned a million dollars?

and it's hard to not be skeptical about things like production bottlenecks, technical limitations, etc

but what they are doing sounds pretty awesome.

Solar Roadways Speech

only 4 days left to donate, if you are interested...they're almost to 1.5MM!

yeah I mean I get that people are used to a consumer mindset...but this is more like patronage

in the renaissance italy sense

which, actually, would make for a fun board game theme.

QUICK WE SHOULD KICKSTART IT

well I just gave these solar people some money and I am definitely not getting that back! but I feel good participating

small-dollar donation = total absolution for a lifetime of pollution