Posted on 08/15/2005 8:31:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
OUTSTANDING!!!
"Put the people on reservations in Utah and Nevada or something so we can keep track of them and re-educate them. Maybe a special place for San Francisco in Kansas or something. Excuse me, my mind is wandering."
Now with this I take exception... it's not fair to the people in those states!
Just give'em one way tickets to Canada ;-)
What they want is you, the taxpayer to fund their boondoggles yachts.
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I'm sorry you live in a travel trailer.
What gets me is how unbalanced pricing is, Today I bought a DVD player for my bedroom for 25 bucks and a case of of Sam Adams for almost 30 Bucks.<<<<<<<
Interesting, your comment fits in with what I have been watching evolve over many years, namely that what used to be unaffordable luxuries or did not exist, color televisions, cell phones, computers etc. are becoming dirt cheap while the necessities, food, housing, Sam Adams etc. are being priced out of reach. It is obvious that we will soon arrive at the point where we live in tarpaper shacks but have huge televisions with no programming worth watching, incredibly powerful home computers and space age cell phones but cannot afford a bag of Fritos and a beer to go with the worthless movie on TV. Simple extrapolation will lead you to the same inescapable conclusion.
P.S. Belay that line about the tarpaper shack, roofing felt is becoming very expensive, we may have to use discarded paper boxes from the computers and televisions.
I like the idea of a steam boiler at the focus of all the mirrors and a dual walking-beam steam engine driving a bank of generators. Stirling engines might be efficient but they lack the raw power of a Watt engine on an overcast day. They should add windmills to the same site since cloudiness is associated with wind, and they should add buried thermocouples to take advantage of hot days with no wind and no sun, as well as cool nights with no wind. The farm should produce some electricity no matter what.
Interesting. Checking my budget plan electric bill, that's about 20 years worth of power for my area, which, like many places in this country, has primarily a coal-nuclear generation mix. Factor in things like maintenance/replacement costs and reliability concerns (the sun doesn't always shine, even in the desert, since it gets dark at night there, too), then I'm wondering if the thing is really practical given the (proven) alternatives.
Just an ordinary brick house
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