A few years ago I lived in a small town that had an annual open town meeting where any registered voter could attend and vote on how the town’s funds would be spent the following year. It was old time democracy and direct rule of the people.
One year we voted to build a solar panel farm on what used to be the old town dump with the electricity produced to be used in all public facilities and street lights to reduce those costs to the taxpayers.
The old town dump is next to the new reclamation center where you bring your trash and place it in various bins for recycling, another money saving move from a few year before,
During a certain period of time, any time you brought our trash to the reclamation center, you had to drive by the solar farm construction site.
Certain characteristics of the solar farm were, therefore, very obvious, especially after the construction was complete.
For maximum effectiveness, the panels had to face south to get the most exposure to the sun, and they also had to stand at about a 45 degree angle with the lower end to the South and the higher end to the North.
They would be inefficient to the point of useless if they faced North, the slant reversed, or, even worse, were standing vertically regardless which side the actual panels were on, as they would not be getting optimum sun facing South and no sun facing North.
Donald Trump’s latest plan for the wall, as he explained it in Iowa recently, is to have the wall constructed as a giant solar panel.
This would mean the actual panels would have to be on the Mexican side of any wall as that would be toward the South, and to be of any use, the solar panels would have to be at a 45 degree angle with the lower part on the South, and the higher to the North.
His wall, therefore would actually have to be a giant ramp.
Even if the wall were one long single row of solar panels each it would have to have a barrier at the northern end, which would have to be some sort of wall with all the solar panel on the Mexican side.
He may not have realized it yet, but Donald Trump’s wall has morphed into a Southern border ramp.
Think about that.