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Switching To Solar Power – One Month Later
ThinSkin writes "After an interesting article on solar panel installation for the home, Loyd Case at ExtremeTech has written a follow-up after about a month of normal use. Posting an $11.34 electric bill (roughly 3% of previous months), Loyd shares his experiences using solar power and how it can be fun for the geek, with computer monitoring services and power generation data. Of course, solar power isn't all fun and games, given the amount of required maintenance — even unpredictable maintenance, like wiping off accumulated ash from fires in Northern California."
I'm talking about the REAL unemployment rate (all people between 16 and 64 who not working, regardless of whether they are job-seekers or not).
A socialist government takes care of the vast majority of people by taxing those those few who actually work hard, perform well, and make a lot of money. Thank you for redistributing my money for me, I had no idea what to do with it.
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I live in CA as well and we average $40/mo. That's a 2,000 sq ft home, family of 4, with 5 computers and a home wood shop. With 2 kids, the 32" TV (CRT, no less) is on a hell of a lot of the time, too.
Install some CFLs and turn down the AC.
That's quite a lot of self-justifying and pontificating in response to to such a small original comment.
You're under the mistaken, though amusingly self-absorbed, impression that I'm responding to only you personally.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
you just got your ass handed to you in the logic department. i suggest you just be quiet and contemplate the lesson.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
No problem. I'm not such a fool that I won't do what I can to protect myself from the destruction of my country's economy and my world's enviroment, just because I'm making it easier for selfish jerks like you, who probably still deny that oil is killing us.
FWIW, I've also had the fun and vast economic opportunity from being an early adopter of personal computer and networking tech for the past 30 years. Sure, I paid a lot more for the inefficient, untested early stuff. But I was there making a fortune off it at every step, defining it at the forefront. And always secure in the knowledge that I was doing the right thing for my personal future, and for the future of the rest of you wannabes who we dragged along into the future we were making up for ourselves.
Of course, we need lots of people like you to come along later and pay less than we did to start it, but in so much volume that we get to rake it in while you've got to figure out how to pay the bills. Doing it our way, rather than your inevitably lame way, is priceless anyway. So you're welcome. Any time.
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