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Well in olden times (BCE) they used to fight about H20 and NaCL....
During the hey day of the Roman Empire, they would pay folks in the military partially in salt. This gave rise to the phrase... worth his salt....
One thing about taking months (years, even) to buy a new car (guilty), is that you get to savor the anticipation for a long time.
And then enjoy an even bigger let down. :shades:
Pay cash and save the planet.
I hope he didn't put the more expensive ones on his roof.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Their calculator estimates my lease at $65 per month with no money down. That is my current electric bill for about 6 months of the year. The bill jumps up drastically for 2 or 3 months in the summer. Last year I averaged just under $100 per month. Thankfully I don't have an EV to kick it into the stratosphere each month.
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When your system is soiled, it's not performing at its peak efficiency. This means for larger systems, they would loose a greater amount of energy. That means more money spent on local utility power.
Another good example of the economic growth possibilities that will be gained by embracing green tech. Fighting global warming is going to save our economy.
That sounds like a good deal. What percent of your regular electric use does it replace?
I always liked the idea of solar in the southwest with all that sun. It's a less obvious choice here in the northeast where some months are 60% cloudy.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
( Electricity payment is only that high because I have about $17 I pay the electric company as a "service fee" each month regardless of electricity usage. Without that fee, this would REALLY put a dent into my costs. )
So the hybrid payment will go up about $3-$4 per month each year. By 2021 it will be about $120 a month.
Sounds like a minimum wage job, if it isn't being done by an illegal alien, or mentally challenged worker-program.
That job will almost be as good as the people who will pickup and dispose of the dead birds that'll get killed by the windmills.
You should check your local and state laws as they may not look too kindly on you telling a 13-yr old to climb a ladder and go on the roof. If he falls, your guvmint and/or insurance company may not be happy with you.
A long time friend who is an architect, has owned his own business for years and in hs/college did construction work to pay his way through college, fell off a roof. (It actually makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up decribing this).
Uphshot is he literally shattered one of legs (lower portion). Upshot after many doctor and hospital visits, needed titanium parts and pins. When he goes through an airport they detain him even with Xray and doctors note in hand. He was a lifetime athletic person, golf, tennis, hiking, biking, and now can barely drive an automatic transmission car.
I'm not going to put my kids in harm's way - never have. They were the only kids in the skating rink wearing wrist guards.
My daughter is also 10 and a half and still sits in a booster seat because she's still shorter than 4 foot 9 inches, which is where the car seat experts say they need to reach before getting off the seat.
'Preciate the warning anyway....:)
To state the obvious the topical history of CA are (MASSIVE) state fires on the order of every 5 years, that literally consume a majority of the state. MAN/WE unnaturally supress the fires and for mostly logical (to us anyway) reasons. So when you hear of those Hollywood stars places like Malibu Canyon, CA, " burn baby burn" is the NATURAL order of things, as perverse as that may sound. I am sure they worked a deal with agencies like FEMA to have government/s rebuilt at taxpayer's expense. Now this of course can be seen as "perverse".
Everyone with a half a liter of education knows that.
What the climate change dispute today boils down to is this:
"The warming is happening. Are man's activities making it worse? If so, what can be done?"
That is the 64 Trillion Dollar Question, to which NO ONE knows a definitive answer.
And until we DO, the debate will rage on.
Oh, and all you Cali folks better start lobbying for reduced CO2 levels:
California to see more deadly heat waves
California to see more deadly heat waves "
Your last two sentences make my points almost exactly !!!???
This is absolute BS in light of what even you have said above.
..."Everyone with a half a liter of education knows that. "....
No problem really, just give me the $ 64 T.
You or whomever you're inferring saying this, is presuming that a warming climate is "bad". Since the climate changes naturally, we know it is EITHER going to be warming or cooling. Now I can make the case of how bad cooling would be for the globe.
I and many people would rather see a warmer Earth, then a colder Earth. The only thing that lives under glaciers are bacteria, and that's exactly what covered Canada and the northern U.S. not so long ago. Goodbye glaciers, hello sunny, warm days, and fun at the beach.
And yes, there really are things known as ice worms that live on glaciers. Who knows, they may hold the cure for cancer.
Chena Hot Springs' normal population is 29.
"More than a thousand people turned out for the Renewable Energy Fair at Chena Hot Springs this weekend to consider the challenges and opportunities for Alaska.
When it comes to renewable energy, there's not much of a better setting than Chena. It accurately reflects this year's theme "Sustainable is Attainable." (KTUU)
1,000 people show up in the middle of nowhere in a Big Oil state to talk about wind and solar. Encouraging. The lure of the hot springs probably helped a little.
ice worms that live on glaciers. Who knows, they may hold the cure for cancer.
They don't have hands !
Nothing against renewable energy. In fact I think there are way too many hurdles setup against it. Maybe now that Ted Kennedy's view won't be disturbed, we may get that project in Nantucket Sound going again.
Turns out there's nothing new under the sun. Fax machines are well over a 100 years old. Turns out tidal power and solar power tech is too. Let's see, the first commercial fax was sent in 1861 and it hit critical mass in 1980ish. So we're ripe for solar hitting critical mass.
A Short History of Bright Ideas (Sierra Magazine)
pg 40
There certainly were not 255.7 M passenger vehicles...... nor 3,029,822,000,000 miles driven in a year. (11,849 miles average per vehicle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyPTIOJuWws
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man."
I'm real partial to his duets with Iris Dement.
"Over there is where I bought my first car
it turned over once but then it never went far...."
"In 1989 China had about 90 miles of freeway - in 2008, China had about 40,000 miles of freeway. Compare that to the United States Interstate System, with a total length of 46,837 miles."... link title
So not much longer till 255.7 M passenger vehicle fleet in China?
Here is Paradise with Iris Dement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQVpLTbO-QI
Not to pick on San Jose, but I am sure other big metro area cities such as, but not limited to : San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boston, Wash D.C., Atlanta, San Antonio, etc project similar growth.
Or why:
1. a $30,000 each IRS/STATE/LOCAL tax credit/s
2. installation permit fees waived
3. power companies to maintain and upgrade the equipment
4. no increase in property taxation due to solar installation
5. no changes to property titles due to installation
6. no restrictive CC&R's due to solar installation
7. no taxation on solar equipment purchases
MIGHT make SOLAR cost effective against normally generated electricity and gas.
Otherwise,... it is not even a thinly disguise raise in energy taxation.
I have mixed emotions about coal. I like electricity and without coal about half of US would be in the dark. As long as we have people blocking Nuclear, Solar and Wind the future is coal. The cleaner the better. We do have a lot of coal in this country
I have come to accept the fact that even if we do try and sneak some eco-friendler methods of making energy/electricity than coal-fired plants making electricity for our needs, the Chinese with their amazing economic growth will drown out these efforts on the Big World View of things.
So, that may as well be our future. Coal-fired electricity plants making electricity to help make our all-electric cars and then coal-fired elelctrical plants to draw energy from to re-charge said vehicles. It's...umm...inevitable and cheaper in the Big Boy Picture of Worldwide Propulsion methods of things.
Global Warming? Like I say, just mix in with all of the other polluters...I...mean producers and call it good.
I mean, if the 2006 Pittsburgh Stealers can pull off a total referee-thrown Super Bowl 40 win over the Seahawks and the rest of America, then why not dream large and wide? Rothelschild admits the football never made it over the end zone on that run, huh? There's many more bad calls I'll go over with anyone willing to listen to me about it. Lost Wages and bought-off ref's will be the end of pro sports in this country.
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And guess who the leader in solar adoption is?
Well, it still may be California, but New Jersey is in second place and rising fast. And we're not talking a spot known for endless sunny days.
"Worldwide, the top solar country is cloudy, windy, Germany, which receives less sun than the rain-besotted state of Oregon. And the reason that Germany, on a national level, and New Jersey, on a state level, are surprising leaders? It's because they both have passed laws that help encourage the growth of the solar industry and encourage people to use solar power. "
New Jersey's solar boom: The battle between old and new energy (AOL)
Essentially I have been waiting 35+ years. ... When I lived in Miami, it literally rained sunshine 10 mo out of the year and the other 2 months... whatever (sun, rain, sun, hurricane season, sun , rain....
So for example, almost anything in CA almost literally is required to be built under a PUD. (planned unit development), you will see movement with massive tax credits and the ability for the PUD to be largely off the grid, back up BY... the grid. Untill then...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..... No current or future large scale new projects like 500 unit apt projects are either required to have or plan SOLAR !!!!!! This is more than telling.
Also it really gets down to KWH (kilowatt hour) cost. It is literally all over the map. Larsb says 03 cents per KWH hour in AZ. CA is @ .11+ cents to .44 cents per KWH. I am for buying AZ generated electricity and bee lined here. !!!! It is amazing for as positive as the article you posted was, not a peep about NJ's cost per kilowatt hour.
Also next to nobody compares the cost to something like oil (per barrell) gal of RUG to PUG and/or D2. I did one against D2 and SOLAR even at 3x the cost of D2, it was ZZZZZZZZZZZ's ville !!??
1. Possible global warming
2. Making sure carbon dioxide is a pollutant
3. Trying to prosecute patriots retroactively
4. Haggling over the 9-1-1 memorial
5. Carbon credits
6. Card check
7. Printing everything in 10 languages
The list is endless...and meaningless.
Why can't we get just one good Presidential candidate who will espouse some of the things that are important and will help save the country.
1. A fair and simple tax system
2. Term limits
3. Tort reform. You sue someone and lose, you pay their defense costs.
4. Fight wars to win
5. Politicians found guilty of serious crimes while in office...life without parole.
That will do for a start !!
2013 LX 570 2016 LS 460
AKA we like it simply complex :lemon:
And to address the political whine...."patriots"? Cheney and his gang of chickenhawk coward war-mongers are as much "patriots" as Sarah is a Nobel-winning economist or Barry is a four-star general. Please. American justice has operated in an ex post facto world of hypocrisy for decades. Nailing this scum to the wall is nothing to cry about. And regarding the wars...fight them for the US, not for its parasitic experimental state.
Sadly the US once on top of the PV market is now a bit player. 5 of the 10 largest suppliers are now from China. US, Japan and Germany being the biggest losers.
http://www.pvsociety.com/article/316017-U_S_China_Taiwan_Gain_Ground_in_Solar_Ce- ll_Market.php
This Congress even took our condom manufacturing business and gave it to China.