How much did it cost to build your house that way? How many square meters of land do you occupy? What tax credits did you take advantage of? These are the kinds of questions I have when someone says "you should use less than x of y". The mean solar energy per square meter is meaningless to people outside the subtropical zones, because solar power there is a fraud. To implement it requires "spreading the cost" over your fellow taxpayers, and it still takes nearly the lifetime of the system to pay for itself. This is not sustainable because ALL resources are finite, not just the ones the elite like to enumerate.
I'm afraid to ask about your "herbivorous" pets, because if they're actually dogs or cats you needlessly (perhaps dangerously) forced to eat vegetables, I would lose it.
I didn't realize that every square meter of the Earth was occupied by people, and each person took up an entire square meter. How about 'gators? They must take up at least two square meters. I think we need to start collecting a carbon tax. You get to tell them.
It's becoming more common to put the insulation on the outside walls now instead of plain house wrap because it is more energy efficient. Insulating the outside means that the framing is now inside the building envelope, so the framing cannot act as a thermal bridge.
My house is over 200 years old with an addition that was erected during its renovation in 1988. The walls of the original section are nearly two feet of high-iron-content field stone. The inside of that section is insulated with the typical high-end foil-faced foam board from the late 80s. The addition is sheathed with foil-faced foam board, and I've installed a radiant barrier (aluminum coated kevlar) in the attic. I get four or five bars on my cell phone. That being said, the cell tower is only about a mile away so that might help!
It truly is reality. The reality is that the poor must understand that they have to stop acting like poor people and do what they can to move out of it: education, thrift, ingenuity. The reality for places like RaC is that they have chosen to address a market that is living outside of its means, and they are willing to take a great RISK on their investment to enter this market. If you find this exploitation, then the only fair way to address it is to simply outlaw RaC and the like-- and let the poor do without.
Nuclear accidents leave hundreds of square mile uninhabitable for decades if not thousands of years.
You would have to have a lot more fuel than we could possibly use in one plant in order to have both fatal levels of radiation and a long period of uninhabitability due to a long half-life.
Perhaps after a few billion years the whole world might have plentiful fijords and geography suitable for large scale hydro, then we might all benefit from it in the same way that Norway and Sweden do.
My parrot's pining for them!
Until then they're a complete red herring.
You can borrow mine once I'm done cutting down the forest with it.
Yeah, I wonder. After all, level 9 earthquakes and tsunamis happen every day, and nuclear plant design hasn't improved at all in the last 40 years. Don't worry, I'm sure that green power will fix the problem somehow. Trust the elite, and go back to sleep.
A group that comes to mind right now fitting this is MADD
I heartily concur. MADD is now a temperance union whose policies appear to be designed to progressively create a new de facto prohibition era, while creating a veritable police state through the use of checkpoints and mandatory breathalyzers.
Their Black and Tan is one of my favorites as well. I tried their new/old Bock and it is excellent, but you had better get it now before it is out for the season.
I believe it is fairly tenuous to have claimed that attacking a government for the actions of a separate group was a purely defensive action.
The Taliban WAS the government of Afghanistan. You are an unqualified ignoramus.
I think that attacking a nation and killing tens of thousands of civilians was a poor response to a relatively simplistic and potentially isolated (but devastating) act of terrorism which could not be repeated once passengers knew not to co-operate with hijackers.
Yes, because I'm sure if we'd left those terrorist camps in place, they wouldn't have produced any new ideas for how to kill people.
Polite? He admitted that he didn't know the facts, but he was sure the Cambridge police acted stupidly. He calls his opponents gun-clingers. He insults the mentally disabled. He stammers horribly without a teleprompter. And what's so "nice" about his speeches? Is there a "National Organization of Niceness" rating?
Plays well with all the other infantile heads of state
... but insults and rejects the dignified heads of state, like those of the UK and Israel.
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I'm afraid to ask about your "herbivorous" pets, because if they're actually dogs or cats you needlessly (perhaps dangerously) forced to eat vegetables, I would lose it.
I didn't realize that every square meter of the Earth was occupied by people, and each person took up an entire square meter. How about 'gators? They must take up at least two square meters. I think we need to start collecting a carbon tax. You get to tell them.
Log off your carbon-generating computer now, you hypocrite.
It's becoming more common to put the insulation on the outside walls now instead of plain house wrap because it is more energy efficient. Insulating the outside means that the framing is now inside the building envelope, so the framing cannot act as a thermal bridge.
My house is built of uncut field stone, and at least part of the stucco was done over wire mesh.
My house is over 200 years old with an addition that was erected during its renovation in 1988. The walls of the original section are nearly two feet of high-iron-content field stone. The inside of that section is insulated with the typical high-end foil-faced foam board from the late 80s. The addition is sheathed with foil-faced foam board, and I've installed a radiant barrier (aluminum coated kevlar) in the attic. I get four or five bars on my cell phone. That being said, the cell tower is only about a mile away so that might help!
It truly is reality. The reality is that the poor must understand that they have to stop acting like poor people and do what they can to move out of it: education, thrift, ingenuity. The reality for places like RaC is that they have chosen to address a market that is living outside of its means, and they are willing to take a great RISK on their investment to enter this market. If you find this exploitation, then the only fair way to address it is to simply outlaw RaC and the like-- and let the poor do without.
Because they can't get it from broadband on landlines, which we already subsidize for the "poor".
The poor need mobile data access? I assume that the rich elite in government will install this mandate, while the middle class pays for it.
I also prefer that jewelry suspended from a chain be high quality and decidedly non-whiny.
You would have to have a lot more fuel than we could possibly use in one plant in order to have both fatal levels of radiation and a long period of uninhabitability due to a long half-life.
Well, Obama pretty much ended the Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling industry for the USA.
My parrot's pining for them!
You can borrow mine once I'm done cutting down the forest with it.
You're crippling the economy with your government-mandated "green jobs" in Spain and your tax credits in the USA. Dismantle those, and then we talk.
Yeah, I wonder. After all, level 9 earthquakes and tsunamis happen every day, and nuclear plant design hasn't improved at all in the last 40 years. Don't worry, I'm sure that green power will fix the problem somehow. Trust the elite, and go back to sleep.
I heartily concur. MADD is now a temperance union whose policies appear to be designed to progressively create a new de facto prohibition era, while creating a veritable police state through the use of checkpoints and mandatory breathalyzers.
Well, the funny logic actually begins with claiming that there are no UFOs. All flying objects are easily identified?
That NYT review is unintentionally hilarious. Thanks.
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Their Black and Tan is one of my favorites as well. I tried their new/old Bock and it is excellent, but you had better get it now before it is out for the season.
The Taliban WAS the government of Afghanistan. You are an unqualified ignoramus.
Yes, because I'm sure if we'd left those terrorist camps in place, they wouldn't have produced any new ideas for how to kill people.
... but insults and rejects the dignified heads of state, like those of the UK and Israel.
I don't know about that. Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank.
Only for Cowboys fans.
Actually, half the administration is saying that we're NOT looking to remove him. So we don't even know why we're fighting.