太陽能公路將解決我們所有的問題……也許

現在是基礎設施周,對我來說這通常意味著壞訊息。我原本計劃告訴你們所有關於我們基礎設施的糟糕事情。

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現在是基礎設施周,對我來說這通常意味著壞訊息。我原本計劃告訴你們所有關於我們基礎設施的糟糕事情。比如,公路信託基金即將耗盡資金,因為我們拒絕增加稅收。或者像缺乏投資導致了我們通常從美國土木工程師學會獲得的道路D級評分,以及通常會傳出的關於可能找到更好的方法來資助我們的交通運輸的傳言。

但你知道嗎?這一切都太令人沮喪了。所以這裡有一個人的想法,可以一次性解決道路問題、基礎設施問題、能源問題——甚至幾乎我們所有的問題。

歡迎來到太陽能公路——這種公路不僅能支撐你的汽車,還能發電,與駕駛員溝通,為電動汽車充電,我想,還能同時為克利夫蘭布朗隊打四分衛。


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這裡有很多很酷的東西,聯邦公路管理局已經為這個聽起來像是空中樓閣的專案提供了一定程度的資助。所以我們可以抱有希望。我有點贊同這個人,他在看到玻璃公路如何在約兩斯基利昂輛超載半掛車連續幾年碾壓下保持完好之前,持懷疑態度。但像其他人一樣,我渴望被證明是錯的。

無論如何,思考一下總是很有趣的。並且很高興有一些事情可以讓我們從我們不再繳納足夠的稅款來維護我們的道路,並且我們看起來不太可能對此做任何事情的事實中轉移注意力。

基礎設施周快樂!

 

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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