Crazy Conspiracy Month: Enviromentalists Secretly Hate Women, Gays, and Aborigines.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

To me the choice is simple, we can prop up a cabal of brutal dictatorships that kill homosexuals, keep women as second class citizens, and don't care if they destroy the environment.

Or we can by our oil from Canada.

To be explicit, if you object to harvesting the Alberta oil sands you are an objectively misogynist, gay bashing, Gaia raping hypocrite.

;P

Comments

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

However, no one seems to be open about alternative energy so....

I'm not sure there's anyone in this community who isn't open to alternative energy, or, really, anywhere.. This isn't a fair statement to make period.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Not wanting to fund green boondoggles with taxpayer money is not the same as not favoring alternative energy.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

You mean something proven and reliable?

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

So when an oil company inevitably introduces an alternative, what will oyur response be?

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

hah, they'll be the filthy rich green barons.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Build Nukes

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Drop them on our Enemies.

(Oh, wait. . . . Wrong tag line.)

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

I don't know if Amazement knows this but I currently have a 3600watt solar array on my roof.

I'm not aware of anyone else having one larger.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

Sure... but I'll have to strip the data off of it to ensure anonymity.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

...more than anyone (in this community).

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

WIN!

[soliloquy76.livejournal.com]

How much does something like that run, if you don't mind me asking?

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

Cost? Production?

Unsubsidized: $24k
Subsidized: $5k with me doing most of the designing and footwork for interconnecting it.

Produces about 20kwh per day. About 2$ worth of electricity at going rate. Although it's never had to for more than an hour, it's meant to replace a generator during daylight power outages where the cost of fuel runs to about 50-80 cents per kwh depending on load (and my rough napkin figures).

With about 20kwh it's enough for microwave, computers, TV, lighting, and most other small electric items. My big circuits like A/C, oven, and dryer aren't operable off of the panels because I'd rather everything else run longer than those items. My home was re-insulated to make heating and cooling with smaller room units during major outages easier.

The panel racks are rated to take winds of about 100mph or so which should cover me if a moderate hurricane passes through here and knocks power out for a week or two like last time.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Tree shadows are covering your capacity! Damn those greedy neighbors! They are costing you money!

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

The sun is setting and it's my neighbor's single tree. Not a big problem.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

That is money they take from your pocket!

Actually, if you're in California, there's a law on the books that allows recourse for neighbors who shadow solar panels with trees. You could turn that shader into firewood. Fer real.

[mrbogey.livejournal.com]

I like trees.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, BTW.