太阳能公路将解决我们所有的问题……也许

现在是基础设施周,对我来说这通常意味着坏消息。我原本计划告诉你们所有关于我们基础设施的糟糕事情。

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现在是基础设施周,对我来说这通常意味着坏消息。我原本计划告诉你们所有关于我们基础设施的糟糕事情。比如,公路信托基金即将耗尽资金,因为我们拒绝增加税收。或者像缺乏投资导致了我们通常从美国土木工程师学会获得的道路D级评分,以及通常会传出的关于可能找到更好的方法来资助我们的交通运输的传言。

但你知道吗?这一切都太令人沮丧了。所以这里有一个人的想法,可以一次性解决道路问题、基础设施问题、能源问题——甚至几乎我们所有的问题。

欢迎来到太阳能公路——这种公路不仅能支撑你的汽车,还能发电,与驾驶员沟通,为电动汽车充电,我想,还能同时为克利夫兰布朗队打四分卫。


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这里有很多很酷的东西,联邦公路管理局已经为这个听起来像是空中楼阁的项目提供了一定程度的资助。所以我们可以抱有希望。我有点赞同这个人,他在看到玻璃公路如何在约两斯基利昂辆超载半挂车连续几年碾压下保持完好之前,持怀疑态度。但像其他人一样,我渴望被证明是错的。

无论如何,思考一下总是很有趣的。并且很高兴有一些事情可以让我们从我们不再缴纳足够的税款来维护我们的道路,并且我们看起来不太可能对此做任何事情的事实中转移注意力。

基础设施周快乐!

 

 

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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