Hopefully,after the RINGWorld is done,that they consider doing The Ringworld Engineers and The Ringworld Throne. Hell,Why not do all of the known space series.(Crashlander and Protector would be great!)
"You really learn just how much electricity we use when you design an alternative power system. And it costs a lot of money"
It did.but I am about to break even on the cost within the month.And I have non-interuptable power,enough to run 3 average homes.(My sister's house next door is on the system,with 15 kw to spare.) The excess is sold to the local power co,at spot prices.If a line break occurs,the home system disconnects in 30ms or so from the power lines. The order of usages on my setup is: 1.Hydro-power(Never has went dry yet) 2. Solar(power storage for 7 days average use.The Batteries are huge.) 3. Wind (adds some extra) 4.Diesel(if all else fails)
When I replace appliances,I look for the most energy efficent on the market.I use florescent lights(yes,even those funny looking screw in replacements for standard bulbs.)Took some doing,cost a small fortune,but I am happy with it.Works great and and is paying for itself very rapidly. Granted,I have gone to extremes on this,but I am better off.No Power bill to pay,just a check from AEP every month.
PS.The mine water that runs the main generator was tested recently and is pure.I use it,too.Beats drinking the clorox-laden city water.
I know that AEP has the sorriest maintainance of any Power co. In Eastern Ky.Like I said,A video tape of the lines during a rain,sent to the Ky Public Service Comission, lit a fire under their corporate ass.And I do understand how the regulated & unregulated utilities work,having worked for them for a few years.
A lot of folks think that because I am from Eastern Kentucky,I am stupid,inbred and barely civilized.(usually everone,with a rare few exceptions) Not this old boy.Getting off the grid was the best thing I have done.When the grid collaspes again,I and my family will have power.Call my attitude a bit paranoid,but after putting up with corporate stupidity,I should be. BTW,a solar water heater is next.(Materials are on the way.) I am now waiting for the first generation cold fusion home electric generators to show up.(A few years off,but I will be in line to get the first one here.)
I have taken myself off the grid years ago,using Solar,Wind,Hydro power(tapped into the abandoned Hardburly Deep mine and using the water to generate power) and have a 20kw diesel generator for backup. Most of the power grid problem stems from the fact that very little maintainence is being done.The Power lines out here have been here since the late 1950s or early 1960. Every time it rains,you can watch an electricial light show less than 50 ft from my home.(Phone calls to the power co.does no good,so I informed the Public Service Comission about it,sending a video tape of the light show.AEP now has 10 days to change the lines out or get fined to the tune of $50k/day!) Greedy utilities have brought this on themselves.Cutting jobs for the maintainence personell,doing nothing about aging lines, and then asking "WHY is this happening?
"We call ourselves Homo Sapiens Spaiens.Our true name should be Home Stupidus"
The Government have had only 56 years to fake and destroy the orginial documents.I think that the Late Col.Phillip Corso told it all in his book 'The Day After Roswell'.(Yes,my copy is signed,too)Col. Corso had honor and could back up his claims.Also,from my own experiences in the military and black ops,the government is STILL lying after all this time. I am like most people who does not beleive a word that the Government says,especially with the Hitler act-alike in the White House. (Yea,the Patriot Act violates EVERY ONE of the Bill of Rights)
Hell,I've got some of them,left over from my days of selling computers(TRS-80s and Color Computers) at the Hazard,Ky.Radio Shack. I wonder if they are worth anything?
I did a screen capture and laughed my ass off.Saved it as borkedMSN.jpg If I could just attach it here--- I ain't that good of a programmer or a hacker(eyesight is too bad)
Have you read the Book by Art Bell & Whitney Stieber call "The Coming Global Superstorm"?
Looks like it's starting. www.artbell.com www.unknowncountry.com
I have watched,with some admusement,the stories involving Lego blocks.Keeps a smile on my face.(Since I am stuck in a hospital bed,rigging a dial-up using a old Pent. Laptop thru the hospital phone system.)
It just goes to show what can be done with a little though and maybe a touch of insanity.
;)
In 1983,my now late father purchased a Nissan Model 720 King-cab Pickup with the SD25 diesel engine.Unfortunately,cancer claimed him 18 months later and I wound up with the truck.I drove that pickup for over 10 years,had no major trouble until 1995,when the engine needed an overhaul.(Had over 600k miles then).After pulling the engine,I discovered that the frame of the truck had cracked.(Strip mine roads do that).Fixed the frame,pulled the 5-speed manual transmission and installed a gas engine & transmission,sold the truck.
I later overhauled the SD25 diesel(costs less than $1000) and stored it and the matching transmission until I found a truck body that could handle the weight of the engine.
Today,that engine is in a S-10 extended cab Chevy,using the Nissan transmission(took a lot of surgery on the S-10,with custom adapters.Works good) and I have been driving it for over a year.
The diesel engine,if the routine maintenance is done,is just as reliable and cheaper to operate than a gas engine.(I have put over 150K miles on it and it is still going strong.)I just have to remember to plug up the engine heater during winter weather.
Why,you ask? I had a few reason for keeping that motor.
1.Reliablilty
2.The engine serial number is 00001.(The truck it came out of was the very first US built Nissan diesel assembled in Symrna,Tenn.)
3.Personal resasons.It was my father's.
4.I like 50+ MPG with decent power.Great for those frequent trips to Dayton,Ohio and back,usually with a double-axle trailer in tow.Loaded)
The advailablity of diesel fuel is not a problem,since EVERY gas station here has a diesel pump.
Of cousre,the emissions of a diesel is much more dirty than a gas motor.(This is eliminated by good maintenance.)
The main problem that most people have with a diesel is the noise.Me,I'm used to it.
Purchase a new diesel-powered vehicle again,if I can afford it?YES.
of course,the insurance companies are drove nuts by the Chevy-Nissan hybrid.(good) Diesels enjoy lower insurance costs here,adding to the advantages.
Disadvantages:lower vehicle value(Blue Book),tend to be cranky in cold weather,noisy,less power per cubic inch of engine size.
For my use,having a diesel is great.
Your circumstances may be different,though.
Ever see the James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever",about a diamond-powered space laser?
With enough development,this could be a start of a new generation of much more efficent solar panels.I'll watch and see what happens.
Great! More of M$'s bloatware.Each newer version of Windows eats much more HD space and is less stable.And M$ expects this to do? I don't think so.
The more I see of Windows,the better I like Linux.
With no choice of OS with major PC brands,XP will be dominate(until PC users FINALLY wise up.)
With the limited life if you do not check in with M$,XP will be slow to take over.I,for example,do not allow Windows (on my daughter's machine)to contact M$.(I update manually and with a close eye on privacy)My personal PC? Linux only.
I have been accused of being a bit of a pack rat by my better half.(I don't throw out the older stuff due to my work with the Computers For Kids church-based project,providing computers for low-income children at no cost.Some of the donated machines are very old.)
For my use,XP is not an option.M$ can stick it into their corporate where-the-sun-don't-shine area.
If and when Windows gets decent stability and is not reporting to M$ every other second,I might reconsider.But not at this time.
But with the shit-for-brains education officals that we have here in Eastern Ky,getting anything but M$ is almost impossible.
Personally,I wouldn't mind having a copy to check out.
Here in Eastern Ky,the cable people have no competition,lousy service and piss-poor customer service.Now the courts say they can gain a bigger monopoly?
Has the entire court system's advailble brain-power turned to cream-of-wheat,or am I missing something?
Does not affect me,since I stay on this computer 90% of the time,but to the rest of the family,it does.
Looks I am going to revamp the old TV antenna 4400ft.up the mountain.
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully,after the RINGWorld is done,that they consider doing The Ringworld Engineers and The Ringworld Throne.
Hell,Why not do all of the known space series.(Crashlander and Protector would be great!)
Here in Kentucky,the actions of EB would get you 3 to 5 in the state pen.(It is a felony.)
"Is it me or has the world gone completely apeshit?"
"You really learn just how much electricity we use when you design an alternative power system. And it costs a lot of money"
It did.but I am about to break even on the cost within the month.And I have non-interuptable power,enough to run 3 average homes.(My sister's house next door is on the system,with 15 kw to spare.) The excess is sold to the local power co,at spot prices.If a line break occurs,the home system disconnects in 30ms or so from the power lines.
The order of usages on my setup is:
1.Hydro-power(Never has went dry yet)
2. Solar(power storage for 7 days average use.The Batteries are huge.)
3. Wind (adds some extra)
4.Diesel(if all else fails)
When I replace appliances,I look for the most energy efficent on the market.I use florescent lights(yes,even those funny looking screw in replacements for standard bulbs.)Took some doing,cost a small fortune,but I am happy with it.Works great and and is paying for itself very rapidly.
Granted,I have gone to extremes on this,but I am better off.No Power bill to pay,just a check from AEP every month.
PS.The mine water that runs the main generator was tested recently and is pure.I use it,too.Beats drinking the clorox-laden city water.
I know that AEP has the sorriest maintainance of any Power co. In Eastern Ky.Like I said,A video tape of the lines during a rain,sent to the Ky Public Service Comission, lit a fire under their corporate ass.And I do understand how the regulated & unregulated utilities work,having worked for them for a few years.
A lot of folks think that because I am from Eastern Kentucky,I am stupid,inbred and barely civilized.(usually everone,with a rare few exceptions) Not this old boy.Getting off the grid was the best thing I have done.When the grid collaspes again,I and my family will have power.Call my attitude a bit paranoid,but after putting up with corporate stupidity,I should be.
BTW,a solar water heater is next.(Materials are on the way.)
I am now waiting for the first generation cold fusion home electric generators to show up.(A few years off,but I will be in line to get the first one here.)
I have taken myself off the grid years ago,using Solar,Wind,Hydro power(tapped into the abandoned Hardburly Deep mine and using the water to generate power) and have a 20kw diesel generator for backup.
Most of the power grid problem stems from the fact that very little maintainence is being done.The Power lines out here have been here since the late 1950s or early 1960. Every time it rains,you can watch an electricial light show less than 50 ft from my home.(Phone calls to the power co.does no good,so I informed the Public Service Comission about it,sending a video tape of the light show.AEP now has 10 days to change the lines out or get fined to the tune of $50k/day!)
Greedy utilities have brought this on themselves.Cutting jobs for the maintainence personell,doing nothing about aging lines, and then asking "WHY is this happening?
"We call ourselves Homo Sapiens Spaiens.Our true name should be Home Stupidus"
2400?Hell,I still have an old 300,1200 and up.(Even have the modem on a chip that Radio Shack sold in 1987,1 still in the pack!)
That was too good to pass up.
"I may be too old to cut the mustard,but I can still lick around the jar"-Fred E.Smith,early stand up comic,my Great-uncle
The Government have had only 56 years to fake and destroy the orginial documents.I think that the Late Col.Phillip Corso told it all in his book 'The Day After Roswell'.(Yes,my copy is signed,too)Col. Corso had honor and could back up his claims.Also,from my own experiences in the military and black ops,the government is STILL lying after all this time.
I am like most people who does not beleive a word that the Government says,especially with the Hitler act-alike in the White House.
(Yea,the Patriot Act violates EVERY ONE of the Bill of Rights)
Hell,I've got some of them,left over from my days of selling computers(TRS-80s and Color Computers) at the Hazard,Ky.Radio Shack.
I wonder if they are worth anything?
I did a screen capture and laughed my ass off.Saved it as borkedMSN.jpg
If I could just attach it here---
I ain't that good of a programmer or a hacker(eyesight is too bad)
Have you read the Book by Art Bell & Whitney Stieber call "The Coming Global Superstorm"?m
Looks like it's starting.
www.artbell.com
www.unknowncountry.co
It's Here.Now M$ & the Feds will control your life,with a person having no sayso whatsoever.
I have watched,with some admusement,the stories involving Lego blocks.Keeps a smile on my face.(Since I am stuck in a hospital bed,rigging a dial-up using a old Pent. Laptop thru the hospital phone system.)
It just goes to show what can be done with a little though and maybe a touch of insanity.
;)
Wandayaknow-1st.
Amen,Bro.
Install that into a 87 black Trans-am!
Would be interesting to see this.
In 1983,my now late father purchased a Nissan Model 720 King-cab Pickup with the SD25 diesel engine.Unfortunately,cancer claimed him 18 months later and I wound up with the truck.I drove that pickup for over 10 years,had no major trouble until 1995,when the engine needed an overhaul.(Had over 600k miles then).After pulling the engine,I discovered that the frame of the truck had cracked.(Strip mine roads do that).Fixed the frame,pulled the 5-speed manual transmission and installed a gas engine & transmission,sold the truck. I later overhauled the SD25 diesel(costs less than $1000) and stored it and the matching transmission until I found a truck body that could handle the weight of the engine. Today,that engine is in a S-10 extended cab Chevy,using the Nissan transmission(took a lot of surgery on the S-10,with custom adapters.Works good) and I have been driving it for over a year. The diesel engine,if the routine maintenance is done,is just as reliable and cheaper to operate than a gas engine.(I have put over 150K miles on it and it is still going strong.)I just have to remember to plug up the engine heater during winter weather. Why,you ask? I had a few reason for keeping that motor. 1.Reliablilty 2.The engine serial number is 00001.(The truck it came out of was the very first US built Nissan diesel assembled in Symrna,Tenn.) 3.Personal resasons.It was my father's. 4.I like 50+ MPG with decent power.Great for those frequent trips to Dayton,Ohio and back,usually with a double-axle trailer in tow.Loaded) The advailablity of diesel fuel is not a problem,since EVERY gas station here has a diesel pump. Of cousre,the emissions of a diesel is much more dirty than a gas motor.(This is eliminated by good maintenance.) The main problem that most people have with a diesel is the noise.Me,I'm used to it. Purchase a new diesel-powered vehicle again,if I can afford it?YES. of course,the insurance companies are drove nuts by the Chevy-Nissan hybrid.(good) Diesels enjoy lower insurance costs here,adding to the advantages. Disadvantages:lower vehicle value(Blue Book),tend to be cranky in cold weather,noisy,less power per cubic inch of engine size. For my use,having a diesel is great. Your circumstances may be different,though.
I wish I could have seen it.
Ever see the James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever",about a diamond-powered space laser? With enough development,this could be a start of a new generation of much more efficent solar panels.I'll watch and see what happens.
I can't wait to watch the fun.(Hey Court TV,Cover this!) After RAMBUS get what they deserve,M$ is next! (Insert wicked laugh here)
Yea,starting with the White House and Congress.Any way to activate it remotely? ;]
Alright! Now as soon as it is proven to be reliable,building the computers for a starship might not be so hard.;)
Great! More of M$'s bloatware.Each newer version of Windows eats much more HD space and is less stable.And M$ expects this to do? I don't think so. The more I see of Windows,the better I like Linux. With no choice of OS with major PC brands,XP will be dominate(until PC users FINALLY wise up.) With the limited life if you do not check in with M$,XP will be slow to take over.I,for example,do not allow Windows (on my daughter's machine)to contact M$.(I update manually and with a close eye on privacy)My personal PC? Linux only. I have been accused of being a bit of a pack rat by my better half.(I don't throw out the older stuff due to my work with the Computers For Kids church-based project,providing computers for low-income children at no cost.Some of the donated machines are very old.) For my use,XP is not an option.M$ can stick it into their corporate where-the-sun-don't-shine area. If and when Windows gets decent stability and is not reporting to M$ every other second,I might reconsider.But not at this time.
But with the shit-for-brains education officals that we have here in Eastern Ky,getting anything but M$ is almost impossible. Personally,I wouldn't mind having a copy to check out.
Here in Eastern Ky,the cable people have no competition,lousy service and piss-poor customer service.Now the courts say they can gain a bigger monopoly? Has the entire court system's advailble brain-power turned to cream-of-wheat,or am I missing something? Does not affect me,since I stay on this computer 90% of the time,but to the rest of the family,it does. Looks I am going to revamp the old TV antenna 4400ft.up the mountain.