I was wondering if anybody would mention those amazing ruins!
That civilization moved/disbanded because they were found in a wet period and then hit a dry one. Unfortunately the timing of our arrival in California was about the same.
I wish AGW cultists would stop throwing this kind of thing out there. All it does is damage their credibility even more.
It's a proven falsehood that the water shortages in California are caused by global warming. Yes, California is in a drought, but the water shortages are being caused more by bad policy than by anything else:
Lightbulb standards are not the proper province of the Federal government; no power enumerated under the Constitution grants such authority nor can be stretched into granting such authority.
LEDs and (my favorite) magnetic resonance bulbs are superb technologies and I have several in my off-grid house precisely because they are so energy efficient. I can afford them. What do the greenies who insist that $30 light bulbs be mandated want to say to the woman with two kids barely getting by on a few hundred dollars a month? They need to be able to buy cheaper lighting than that.
Lighting technology will advance, and over time all bulbs (even incandescents) will become more efficient. Keep the government out of it.
....how happens to live in a 100% off grid solar house.
Groups trying to "stop" deployment of solar and wind (and geothermal and yes, nuclear) are just stupid.
I have zero problem with the basic thesis that none of these techs should be subsidized by the government. Let them stand or fall on their own; no industry (and that means none) should be subsidized by the Feds in any way whatsoever.
But there's also no reason to throw up roadblocks per se. That's ideology, not conservatism or libertarianism.
...and frankly I can't charge them where I need to be able to charge them.
My house is off grid and solar-powered so you'd think that would be ideal. The problem is that when the sun is out I'm not at the house, I'm at work....where there aren't any places to charge something like this (military base). And of course when I'm home the sun isn't up--I'd have to pull down my batteries (which supply all the power to said house) to charge the car.
I could easily be sold on an electric car, but not until the price comes down and I've got some way to charge it up at work.
Ten years before I got ready to build I went to an Open House at a new development north of here precisely to see the house that had the fuel cell generator. At that time it was about the size of two or three large freezers and ran on natural gas.
The tech and I talked a lot. He figured that within ten years the same product would be about the size of a cabinet freezer and perhaps $10K in cost. It would easily run on propane (which is what I knew I'd have in the mountains).
Flash forward ten years, I'm getting ready to build and search online for fuel cell companies--and find virtually no changes since that initial visit. Nobody was selling a house-capable fuel cell generator, they were more custom built than mass produced, and finding a good way to handle the recharge filters wasn't really standardized yet.
Needless to say I was quite disappointed. Ended up going with solar which I do like, but not making power 24x7 is quite annoying.
Where I work literally nobody is laying this at the feet of the Republicans or the House. At the most they think it's "that stupid Congress" and want to vote everybody out; most of them put the blame for the shutdown squarely on the Senate Democrats and Obama.
The House has been more than accommodating. They've sent up several bills with various forms of with--yes, look it up--varying numbers of bi-partisan votes. It's the Senate Democrats who are refusing to compromise, led by Harry "Why Would I Do That?!?" Reid.
...that the BBC is fully aware of this, and is planning a special new series dedicated to re-running all of those "old episodes"....thus keeping the public domain thing from happening.
I wanted to do a home fuel cell generator for my new house but they just weren't ready when it came time to build (and still aren't). I would love to see them finally become practical.
Looking at the Wikipedia article on Manning (admittedly not the best source but probably reliable enough for this) I don't actually see any war crimes either committed or covered up.
It's entirely possible I've missed them....to what are you referring?
LOL! Warmites are so cute in their dogged insistence that only cherry-picked information be considered! I'll bet you believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy too.
I find people who try to invoke Holocaust Denial by calling Skeptics of the deeply unproven AGW theory "Deniers" to have basically admitted they know they have no actual facts on their side.
While that's a cute meme you're spouting, it's the Democrats and environmentalists who have protested the building of various solar power initiatives in the southwest and managed to stop several:
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Actually, large temperature increases over a short period of time (decades or centuries) isn't at all unprecedented:
http://www.greencarcongress.co...
Ferret
I didn't see him say that.
Ferret
Well said brother.
Well said.
Ferret
Most armchair scientists don't understand this at all.
Ferret
I was wondering if anybody would mention those amazing ruins!
That civilization moved/disbanded because they were found in a wet period and then hit a dry one. Unfortunately the timing of our arrival in California was about the same.
Ferret
I wish AGW cultists would stop throwing this kind of thing out there. All it does is damage their credibility even more.
It's a proven falsehood that the water shortages in California are caused by global warming. Yes, California is in a drought, but the water shortages are being caused more by bad policy than by anything else:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...
Facts are stubborn things.
Ferretman
Lightbulb standards are not the proper province of the Federal government; no power enumerated under the Constitution grants such authority nor can be stretched into granting such authority.
LEDs and (my favorite) magnetic resonance bulbs are superb technologies and I have several in my off-grid house precisely because they are so energy efficient. I can afford them. What do the greenies who insist that $30 light bulbs be mandated want to say to the woman with two kids barely getting by on a few hundred dollars a month? They need to be able to buy cheaper lighting than that.
Lighting technology will advance, and over time all bulbs (even incandescents) will become more efficient. Keep the government out of it.
Ferret
....how happens to live in a 100% off grid solar house.
Groups trying to "stop" deployment of solar and wind (and geothermal and yes, nuclear) are just stupid.
I have zero problem with the basic thesis that none of these techs should be subsidized by the government. Let them stand or fall on their own; no industry (and that means none ) should be subsidized by the Feds in any way whatsoever.
But there's also no reason to throw up roadblocks per se. That's ideology, not conservatism or libertarianism.
Ferret
...and frankly I can't charge them where I need to be able to charge them.
My house is off grid and solar-powered so you'd think that would be ideal. The problem is that when the sun is out I'm not at the house, I'm at work....where there aren't any places to charge something like this (military base). And of course when I'm home the sun isn't up--I'd have to pull down my batteries (which supply all the power to said house) to charge the car.
I could easily be sold on an electric car, but not until the price comes down and I've got some way to charge it up at work.
Ferret
So no real response to the observation, just personal insult?
Typical Warmite.
Ferret
....gave it a 3 out of 5.
Was never particularly interested in reading the books. They simply didn't look all that interesting.
Ferret
Ten years before I got ready to build I went to an Open House at a new development north of here precisely to see the house that had the fuel cell generator. At that time it was about the size of two or three large freezers and ran on natural gas.
The tech and I talked a lot. He figured that within ten years the same product would be about the size of a cabinet freezer and perhaps $10K in cost. It would easily run on propane (which is what I knew I'd have in the mountains).
Flash forward ten years, I'm getting ready to build and search online for fuel cell companies--and find virtually no changes since that initial visit. Nobody was selling a house-capable fuel cell generator, they were more custom built than mass produced, and finding a good way to handle the recharge filters wasn't really standardized yet.
Needless to say I was quite disappointed. Ended up going with solar which I do like, but not making power 24x7 is quite annoying.
Maybe someday.....either this or Mr. Fusion!
Ferret
This skews time to work to the benefit of the coasts rather than the heartland. Not my idea of fair.....
Why in the world didn't they just go to one of the dozens of "roll your own" web site companies that specialize in this kind of thing?
They could have at least kept it in the US.....good grief......
Ferret
Well said sir.
Where I work literally nobody is laying this at the feet of the Republicans or the House. At the most they think it's "that stupid Congress" and want to vote everybody out; most of them put the blame for the shutdown squarely on the Senate Democrats and Obama.
The House has been more than accommodating. They've sent up several bills with various forms of with--yes, look it up--varying numbers of bi-partisan votes. It's the Senate Democrats who are refusing to compromise, led by Harry "Why Would I Do That?!?" Reid.
Ferret
This man isn't a troll; he's spot on accurate.
Ferret
...that the BBC is fully aware of this, and is planning a special new series dedicated to re-running all of those "old episodes"....thus keeping the public domain thing from happening.
Ferret
I wanted to do a home fuel cell generator for my new house but they just weren't ready when it came time to build (and still aren't). I would love to see them finally become practical.
Ferret
...didn't work in either Mozilla or IE.
Ferret
Looking at the Wikipedia article on Manning (admittedly not the best source but probably reliable enough for this) I don't actually see any war crimes either committed or covered up.
It's entirely possible I've missed them....to what are you referring?
Ferret
If this comes to fruition I'll be one of the first in line for it.
Ferret
LOL! Warmites are so cute in their dogged insistence that only cherry-picked information be considered! I'll bet you believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy too.
It'll happen again.
No, this is NOT the "end of the world".
br Ferret
I find people who try to invoke Holocaust Denial by calling Skeptics of the deeply unproven AGW theory "Deniers" to have basically admitted they know they have no actual facts on their side.
Pathetic.
Ferret
While that's a cute meme you're spouting, it's the Democrats and environmentalists who have protested the building of various solar power initiatives in the southwest and managed to stop several:
"Environmental Groups File Formal Protests Over Federal Plan to Expedite Desert Solar Power Projects in 6 Western States" - http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/10908
"BrightSource’s cancelled projects highlight hurdles for desert solar thermal plants" - http://gigaom.com/2013/04/04/brightsources-cancelled-projects-highlight-hurdles-for-desert-solar-thermal-plants/
"$2B Mojave Desert solar plant breaks ground" - http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=7749227
That last one that actually got built was by, you know, a Republican....
Just say'in.....perhaps reflexively categorizing "Republicans bad" and "Democrats good" isn't the best way to view the world...
Ferret
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