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OK, something for the collective brain. An idea came to me while getting into an oven baked car this summer. Here in CA, the Gubenator has the "Million Solar Roofs" initiative. I had the added idea of Solar Parking Lots. It's not an original idea (see Google headquarters and US Navy Depot in San Diego). My thought was, what if the cities/counties started an initiative that did Solar Parking lots for all the public parking areas, esp at the beach where there is little or no buildings causing shade. The idea being a double benefit. Folks cars would be cooler, and the area would generate power, reducing the need for the coal, oil & natural gas power places. What if they expanded the program, gave incentives to box stores, supermarkets, malls to do the same? Anywhere there are large blacktop expanses. In theory, it would provide power, provide shade, and if adopted on a larger scale, could help reduce city warming (if less blacktop absorbs solar energy, then it would re-radiate less heat during day/eveing)
So the question is... aside from cash to do it, what are the draw backs? What am I missing? Assuming one builds it high enough to accommodate 18-wheelers and such. I would love to post this idea to my Mayor (who drives an EV Rav-4) and our Gubinator.
(x-posted in my LJ)
Apache is definitely running, FWIW -- the MAMP controller says it is. But I have a hell of a time getting MySQL to start running most of the time.
Also: the local PHPAdmin page URL is:
http://localhost/MAMP/?language=English
This DOES open the PHPAdmin when MySQL actually starts the way it's supposed to. As you can see, it's looking locally for files, and it finds them just fine. Except that I can't see why it isn't recognizing a .PHP file to pick up on.
OK, when I RESTART my iBook and load MAMP before anything else, I can start phpMyAdmin with a URL like
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/frame.php? src=%2FphpMyAdmin%2F%3Flang%3Den-iso-8859-1 &language=English
(I've added a couple spaces so that it breaks OK)
The normal Start page is
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/?language=English
All of this might as well be French to me. There's a reason that I'm a developer and not an admin.
What happens when you go to [link] ? I mean, assuming you have a file called whatever.php with code in.
Incidentally, when I try and load my example PHP file, it starts out with
here"; echo "
"; echo "
"; //print list of everyone in users table. $result = >mysql_query("SELECT * from users"); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ //print_r($row); echo ""; echo $row["fname"] . " " . $row["lname"] . "
"; echo ""; } ?>
...as the header. It's just not loading it. I can open the MAMP widget and see that Apache has a green light, as well as MySQL -- there's no indicator for PHP nor does there seem to be intended to be.
Through the MAMP preferences, I can tell you that the Apache port is definitely 8888.
What's the name and location of your example file?
Daniel, thank you. I looked it up and got so confused I turned to cursing and ice cream. The driver installed and it seems to be okay, though I've yet to actually try scanning anything.
omnis, it sounds like a great idea to me. The only reason not to do it is because it'll cost money to put it in place. You'd have to give them some convincing numbers to show that it would lower their costs over time (not a long time, either) enough to be worth it. If this sort of thing already exists somewhere and is profitable - saves more money than it costs - that'll help your case a lot.
