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You are right on the money! I scrapped my HE washer (still working, if you can call it that) this past summer and bought a Speed Queen. The Speed Queen can wash AND RINSE clothing far faster and more efficiently! As in laundry that would take my old HE washer some 18 hours spread across 3 days can be done in the Speed Queen in only 50 minutes with vastly less water, detergent, and electricity! (35 minutes without the extra rinse.) It's cool having technology that actually works. Prior to the Speed Queen my plan was to deploy an array of HE washers to parallelize washing clothes. But that became problematic. I needed better plumbing to get sufficient water flow and I needed additional electric lines run. 20 amps per line just isn't enough. Speed Queen is a much better solution.

You might take a look at a comparison of an LG washer vs a Speed Queen. EVERY single feature favors the LG until you get down to the very bottom where they stupidly let folks vote. Even with astroturfing, they're still running 80/20 in favor of the Speed Queen. Laughed my ass off at that!

Back to light bulbs:

My house is recently built, less than a quarter century old. The light fixtures are horrid. Cheap. They break if you sneeze in their general direction. Changing lightbulbs is a really painful process, and has on numerous occasions required complete disassembly of the fixture and replacement parts. So for me, CFLs and LEDs are a godsend.

Unfortunately CFLs did not work well when burned horizontally. Right side up or Up side down was fine, but sideways they burned out in hours. And CFLs just lasted a little bit longer. They still burned out. Usually with an awful smell, and often with the glass breaking and dispensing mercury everywhere.

LEDs have faired a bit better. Haven't had one fail yet. They're bright. And it's a lot less power flowing through questionable wiring.

Still, I'm fond of using old incandescent lamps as heaters. When it gets real cold, turning on a 100 watt bulb next to the cold water line can save me thousands in plumbing repair bills! Since 100 watt bulbs are no longer available, I've been using a couple of 1800 watt space heaters. Any electric savings pretty much went out the window right there.

But electricity savings isn't really the strong feature of LEDs that everyone's hyping it to be. With LEDs, I leave the lights burning 24x7. Why not? I'm not saving enough power to make a difference... And there goes the savings...

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If you prefer a commercial or private jet example, this should work.

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I think that twin engine jets are most common, there are triple engine jets out there, and quads aplenty in the larger craft. But, yes, there are single jet engine aircraft.

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If you prefer a commercial or private jet example, this should work.

http://planes.findthebest.com/...

I think that twin engine jets are most common, there are triple engine jets out there, and quads aplenty in the larger craft. But, yes, there are single jet engine aircraft.

http://planes.findthebest.com/...

http://planes.findthebest.com/...

If you prefer a commercial or private jet example, this should work.

http://planes.findthebest.com/...

I think that twin engine jets are most common, there are triple engine jets out there, and quads aplenty in the larger craft. But, yes, there are single jet engine aircraft.

[come again?] Community Colleges aren't medical schools...that's they they're Community Colleges.

Medical schools aren't under grad institutions. Attending a community college on your way to a bachelors degree in no way disqualifies you from attending medical school or graduate school.

Yes, five figures in debt for you doctorate, ten years ago. This contradicts my point....?

I was never in debt. Secondly your point was that the prestige of your undergrad school is what qualifies or disqualifies you for graduate or medical school. I pointed out that it's bullshit.

Double digit increases every year or two isn't "much"?

SUNY tuition is has ever had anywhere near that rate of increase.

any system the IRS has is going to be horrendously old because they pretty much never get funding to upgrade anything.

Here's a Delivery Order (contract) that the Internal Revenue Service used to buy $12.5 million worth of Dell computers from June 23, 2004 to September 30, 2011:

http://government-contracts.fi...

On September 29, 2009, that contract was used to purchase $150,590 worth of "Desktop Replacement Notebooks".... so, back in 2010, the employees now under investigation could have all been using 1-year old Dell laptops running Windows XP or 7.

Seattle gets on average, under 36 inches of rain per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Waco Texas, one of the cities I grew up in and one which most people consider 'drier than normal', gets on average, 36 inches per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Cary NC, where I live now, gets 46 inches per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Contrary to whatever you've heard, Seattle doesn't get that much rain, it just gets a little bit of rain very often, which is actually the best way to get it, its reliable.

Seattle gets on average, under 36 inches of rain per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Waco Texas, one of the cities I grew up in and one which most people consider 'drier than normal', gets on average, 36 inches per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Cary NC, where I live now, gets 46 inches per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Contrary to whatever you've heard, Seattle doesn't get that much rain, it just gets a little bit of rain very often, which is actually the best way to get it, its reliable.

Seattle gets on average, under 36 inches of rain per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Waco Texas, one of the cities I grew up in and one which most people consider 'drier than normal', gets on average, 36 inches per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Cary NC, where I live now, gets 46 inches per year. http://average-rainfall.findth...

Contrary to whatever you've heard, Seattle doesn't get that much rain, it just gets a little bit of rain very often, which is actually the best way to get it, its reliable.

Harvard University is 49% male, and 51% female.

There are more women than men at Harvard. How does your point defeat the GPs point? Surely based on your logic we should see more female high-flying drop-outs than men, right?

some websites also provide lists of seat distances. An Informed customer may then calculate the value of those available extra inches.

The patent troll's target isn't Doubleclick, it's a newer startup called FindTheBest which looks (from a quick glance at the site) much less "evil".

350 pound flight capacity minus 187 pound vehicle weight seems to indicate a 163 pound (74 kilo) passenger limit. Not great, but that's certainly not "anorexic child-size styrofoam dummy" either. I'm an adult male, I could get there if I cut out the peanutbuttercups and switched to diet soda.

Oh well, I guess that means I'm never going to be able to ride it. Diet soda is vile.
How about they work on inventing that? Soda that tastes like sugar-water without being sugar-water? Chuckle.

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Or if maybe they removed the large bicycle frame and tires, that would shed some weight? World's lightest bike is 6 lbs but costs $45,000 which is far too much. This aluminum bike is more reasonably priced at $1700 and weighs only 15 lbs. Average bicycle weighs 30+ lbs, so that extra 15 lbs saved could mean the difference between lifting off the ground or not.

Also I'm not sure what those cages around the fan blades are suppose to acheive since the cage gap is huge, anything could be sucked in there, needs to be a cage more like a desktop fan.

At least it's a step in the right direction.

"I was surprised that MS didn't convert the Windows Accessories (Notepad, Calculator, etc.) to Modern apps. And then the old Control Panel was left there, but some settings are still managed through the Modern UI. As the icing of the cake, the whole new UI is just butt-ugly."

You must be new here.

Electric cars do not have to be lightweight... It just helps. Just as it helps with normal petrol cars...

In fact considering how small the delorean is it weighs less than a prius.

http://cars.findthebest.com/q/194/3256/What-is-the-weight-of-a-2011-Toyota-Prius-Two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12

This is the third post saying the same thing in response to his (very good) argument.

Note, the MPG he gives in his post are in US MPG (or MPUSG as per his post).

As per UK consumption:
http://uk-car-fuel-emissions.findthebest.com/detail/4669/Prius

That site shows 72.4 combined UK MPG, which is 60.3 MPG US. He may have used a different year than the 2009 I just linked.

So, he already corrected for that, and his statement that UK readings are more optimistic stands (on that note, both are too low for my driving style).

Sam