buttery fistful said:

And we could tilt the panels to blind Mexicans trying to cross over! Brilliant!

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You make it like one of those solar thermal farms which concentrates the energy from the sun to a single point but you have an AI which monitors and can tilt panels on the fly to fire the rays directly at any Mexicans trying to cross over! Scorch them like ants.

Johnny9Alive said:

I like how there really isn't an argument against this outside of the fact that Trump proposed, so it has to be bad.
Apparently solar is bad when Trump wants it.

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A wall is the worst possible orientation for a solar panel array. They should be on the ground with the array oriented North to South so the panels can be angled to maximize sun exposure. Putting them on the face of a wall means you cut out sun exposure or at least expose it very inefficiently for half of the year. Unless the suggestion is to place them on the top of the wall, then you have to build the wall thicker. In either case, it adds to the cost massively, just to say 'but we added solar', it would increase the cost of the project in the factor of 10's.

It's a ridiculous idea.

Khaz said:

You are forgetting Mexicans with catapults.

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Yup.