Harbor freight has a 45 watt setup for under $200.00US. a sane home can install 4 sets of these and end up with a 180watt install that is HIGHLY useable for living off the grid.
A solar 15 amp install at 12 volts can charge a bank of 12V deep cycle batteries to give you 120 amp hours of replenishment in 8 hours. if your home was sane and used proper building techniques and proper design. Lighting at night for a 5 room normal sized home with 2 CFL lamps in each room assuming super bright 10watt CFL's... all lights on in every room you are drawing 16 amps from 12V CFL.s (only a moron would install 110V lighting on a PV electric install.) Typically this is not the case so cut that in 1/2 for realistic operation and cut time to be a maximum average of 3 hours of on time. That's lighting. if the home was built right then HVAC Will take very little and the fridge in the home using a converted chest freezer will use about 1 amp every hour on average. add in 30% losses for that as it's running through the AC inverter.
So for less than $2500.00 a home can be off the grid. Very,very doable for a cabin. heck you will have a lot of leftover for the electric well pump. 75 amps for the 10 minutes it runs. so have a larger battery capacity or as you can afford it add more solar banks.
The biggest problem is that living solar REQUIRES lifestyle changes. you can not be the energy pig like you are today. that Direct-TV receiver is a energy pig and needs to be thrown away. NO 42" plasma, no big 8 core workstation with quad video cards and 4 monitors. no SubZero fridge, no Standard Central Air conditioning. etc... But it also means a home built by a real architect and not the morons being hired for the garbage built in the typical suburb. Bonus points of you get the right site for a earth berm home and have a south facing wall that will allow you to harvest sunlight for heat in the winter but allow convection cooling in the summer.
"When I buy a used car I don't get the original owners warranty or any free stuff which may have come with the original purchase,"
really? you must suck at buying used cars.
My honda Civic came with the original warranty and the free oil changes that were left from the new car purchase. I even have the floor mats, manual, dvd, and the honda first aid kit that was in the back.
Get experience and a basic degree BS is good enough and can be in anything. Certs only mean you were a sucker and paid the time and money to get the worthless things.
the ONLY jobs that certs mean anything is entry level. You are not looking to "move up" to another entry level position are you?
And the switch selection is directed towards the ricer wannabe kids. I dont want chrome blue painted jet fighter toggle switches or the other butt ugly Ricer R-type crap they stock. Only losers and posers put that crap in their car. Plus the quality is so bad that you can feel the switch wanting to fall apart in your hand. Mosst of the pushbuttons are garbage, etc....
Most places did that. I had 20 sealed boxes of DOS I threw away when I was a comcast employee. we bought all the copies and opened one to install on everything. works great. The same happened with NT and XP as well...
No they don't like the competition for robbing the artist. And they are frightened that the artists will discover they don't need the label at all. Honestly, if you are good and you recorded everything and threw it all to the internet for free, you will be a success. People will go to your shows, people will BOOK YOU for shows, they will want the tshirt, etc.... There are a couple of bands here that have done this and they all now do music stuff and no longer need day jobs. Do they make $40,000,000,000 in record sales? no but that 's not realistic.
and it does not matter, once the tracker get's out you are fubar. so I cant get the tracker at Pirate bay, but dave can and he can paste that magnet link on another site and BOOM I now can enjoy the 39,000,000 seeder swarm that will be this artist's album and a bootleg recording of their shower singing recorded by someone to prove a point.
Just because most people are too cheap to buy a quality keyboard but instead buy a under $90.00 piece of crap is not my problem. Quit being a baby and buy a decent keyboard. the only place where you can buy expensive garbage keyboards is apple. Their keyboard is great except for the mental-fart making them flat chick-lets. Thanks Jobs for the crappy keyboard!
AS for the windows UI problems, I don't have that issue as ALL those lamented features still exist under Linux. I can put that evil close window button away from the others easily. Just because Microsoft and Apple refuses to let you have control over your desktop is also not my problem. You choose to use windows or OSX over and OS that allows customization.
SO what exactly is he claiming is missing? because from my vantage point I have everything he claims is missing.
Under linux you have to download it, turn on the execute bit and set the permissions and THEN execute it. Nope no chance in hell that a user will fall for this under linux. if they launch random crap they will never be able to set it to execute.
And are social pariahs. They need to use that cash to get social training on how to interact with people and rub elbows with the rich. Brains+education+ understand social interaction and use it to your advantage? that get's you bigger than bill gates ever was.
Big deal. I had a girlfriend that made more than that when she was 18. Brought home $900 a night on average. Worked as a drinks girl at the sands and had GIANT boobs. She had the brains to get over the stupid "they look at me like 'im an object" objection because she knows that men stare at a hot chick with giant boobs... So she cashed in on it.
Too bad she went crazy and went all religious on me....
If you cant turn that $100,000 into $1,000,000 in investments and startup capitol in 3 months you're a failure. This is the new internet business.. The guy is not looking for someone to start a traditional mom and pop small business. He is looking to fund the next cut-throat scam artist bullshitter that can make big promises and talk others into working for free or working for a promise of the big pie that is just around the corner (Think Zuckerberg) Some pan out like facebook. Some fall on their face like pets.com... It's a crap shoot. $100,000 can make you look like you are serious so you can ease the worries of investors. YOU look like you have a real stake in it. Where in reality, these people will not.
That is what this guy is about. Not honest business like most people think about.
IF you want to be an executive? he is 100% correct.
All you need to do is schmooze and network to get your name known by rich people. Abilities and skills are not important, It's who you know not what you know.
If you want to be a productive citizen that actually does things? College is a good idea.
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Harbor freight has a 45 watt setup for under $200.00US. a sane home can install 4 sets of these and end up with a 180watt install that is HIGHLY useable for living off the grid.
A solar 15 amp install at 12 volts can charge a bank of 12V deep cycle batteries to give you 120 amp hours of replenishment in 8 hours. if your home was sane and used proper building techniques and proper design. Lighting at night for a 5 room normal sized home with 2 CFL lamps in each room assuming super bright 10watt CFL's... all lights on in every room you are drawing 16 amps from 12V CFL.s (only a moron would install 110V lighting on a PV electric install.) Typically this is not the case so cut that in 1/2 for realistic operation and cut time to be a maximum average of 3 hours of on time. That's lighting. if the home was built right then HVAC Will take very little and the fridge in the home using a converted chest freezer will use about 1 amp every hour on average. add in 30% losses for that as it's running through the AC inverter.
So for less than $2500.00 a home can be off the grid. Very,very doable for a cabin. heck you will have a lot of leftover for the electric well pump. 75 amps for the 10 minutes it runs. so have a larger battery capacity or as you can afford it add more solar banks.
The biggest problem is that living solar REQUIRES lifestyle changes. you can not be the energy pig like you are today. that Direct-TV receiver is a energy pig and needs to be thrown away. NO 42" plasma, no big 8 core workstation with quad video cards and 4 monitors. no SubZero fridge, no Standard Central Air conditioning. etc... But it also means a home built by a real architect and not the morons being hired for the garbage built in the typical suburb. Bonus points of you get the right site for a earth berm home and have a south facing wall that will allow you to harvest sunlight for heat in the winter but allow convection cooling in the summer.
You can buy Flexible Panels now and have been able to for a decade.
"You're freezing your ass off because your house isn't properly insulated (not your fault--very few houses are, but that's why)."
If you own your house and it's not properly insulated..... it is in fact your fault. You cant sidestep that fact.
"I need to pay my bills or I'll die."
Wow! what country has executions for not paying your bills?
"When I buy a used car I don't get the original owners warranty or any free stuff which may have come with the original purchase,"
really? you must suck at buying used cars.
My honda Civic came with the original warranty and the free oil changes that were left from the new car purchase. I even have the floor mats, manual, dvd, and the honda first aid kit that was in the back.
"Did anyone stick a gun to your head and make you buy it off of Steam?"
No they came to my house with a bag of headcrabs and waved one at me.
Get experience and a basic degree BS is good enough and can be in anything. Certs only mean you were a sucker and paid the time and money to get the worthless things.
the ONLY jobs that certs mean anything is entry level. You are not looking to "move up" to another entry level position are you?
"WOW is useless if you can't afford the monthly fee."
Not if you run on free private servers......
You ruined the tip with sandpaper. You need to use a properly tinned tip, they solder better than that club you have been using.
And the switch selection is directed towards the ricer wannabe kids. I dont want chrome blue painted jet fighter toggle switches or the other butt ugly Ricer R-type crap they stock. Only losers and posers put that crap in their car. Plus the quality is so bad that you can feel the switch wanting to fall apart in your hand. Mosst of the pushbuttons are garbage, etc....
I really liked it until you found that most apps wont run...
Most places did that. I had 20 sealed boxes of DOS I threw away when I was a comcast employee. we bought all the copies and opened one to install on everything. works great. The same happened with NT and XP as well...
Because a sweaty Ballmer throwing chairs will not fit in a icon.
No they don't like the competition for robbing the artist. And they are frightened that the artists will discover they don't need the label at all. Honestly, if you are good and you recorded everything and threw it all to the internet for free, you will be a success. People will go to your shows, people will BOOK YOU for shows, they will want the tshirt, etc.... There are a couple of bands here that have done this and they all now do music stuff and no longer need day jobs. Do they make $40,000,000,000 in record sales? no but that 's not realistic.
and it does not matter, once the tracker get's out you are fubar. so I cant get the tracker at Pirate bay, but dave can and he can paste that magnet link on another site and BOOM I now can enjoy the 39,000,000 seeder swarm that will be this artist's album and a bootleg recording of their shower singing recorded by someone to prove a point.
Just because most people are too cheap to buy a quality keyboard but instead buy a under $90.00 piece of crap is not my problem. Quit being a baby and buy a decent keyboard. the only place where you can buy expensive garbage keyboards is apple. Their keyboard is great except for the mental-fart making them flat chick-lets. Thanks Jobs for the crappy keyboard!
AS for the windows UI problems, I don't have that issue as ALL those lamented features still exist under Linux. I can put that evil close window button away from the others easily. Just because Microsoft and Apple refuses to let you have control over your desktop is also not my problem. You choose to use windows or OSX over and OS that allows customization.
SO what exactly is he claiming is missing? because from my vantage point I have everything he claims is missing.
Under linux you have to download it, turn on the execute bit and set the permissions and THEN execute it.
Nope no chance in hell that a user will fall for this under linux. if they launch random crap they will never be able to set it to execute.
Stop bringing truth and facts into this.....
And are social pariahs. They need to use that cash to get social training on how to interact with people and rub elbows with the rich. Brains+education+ understand social interaction and use it to your advantage? that get's you bigger than bill gates ever was.
Big deal.
I had a girlfriend that made more than that when she was 18. Brought home $900 a night on average. Worked as a drinks girl at the sands and had GIANT boobs. She had the brains to get over the stupid "they look at me like 'im an object" objection because she knows that men stare at a hot chick with giant boobs... So she cashed in on it.
Too bad she went crazy and went all religious on me....
He's offering it to 20 somethings... that's a lot of pot, and one hell of a trip to burning man.
Well duh.. BA in philosophy.... WTF use is that other than to get the "has degree" box checked on the resume.
If you cant turn that $100,000 into $1,000,000 in investments and startup capitol in 3 months you're a failure. This is the new internet business.. The guy is not looking for someone to start a traditional mom and pop small business. He is looking to fund the next cut-throat scam artist bullshitter that can make big promises and talk others into working for free or working for a promise of the big pie that is just around the corner (Think Zuckerberg) Some pan out like facebook. Some fall on their face like pets.com... It's a crap shoot. $100,000 can make you look like you are serious so you can ease the worries of investors. YOU look like you have a real stake in it. Where in reality, these people will not.
That is what this guy is about. Not honest business like most people think about.
IF you want to be an executive? he is 100% correct.
All you need to do is schmooze and network to get your name known by rich people. Abilities and skills are not important, It's who you know not what you know.
If you want to be a productive citizen that actually does things? College is a good idea.
Yeah but now all skype calls start with the windows 95 startup sound.....