I have an important project to finish this weekend, so I’ll be offline much of the weekend.
Here’s some pictures of what I’m up to.
BTW global warming and CO2 reduction did not figure into my decision to do this again (we downsized our original home that I first put solar on) one bit. The economics and out of control regulations that will make electricity prices “necessarily skyrocket” starting this fall were the main impetus.
Details next week, along with instructions how how you can get one easily and put your own sweat equity into it and save a bundle…and have it paid off quickly and fully own it…unlike those lease programs that require 20 year payoffs…and by that time the company may be gone and the panels fading.
I’m no expert, but would spacing them further off the roof let them stay cooler and therefore make them a lot more efficient?
Antony Look at what you have been missing!
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
usJim says:
July 22, 2012 at 11:35 am
They fixed the rust problem a log time ago. My recently retired 1999 Saturn SL2 with 317,000 miles on it had a couple rust spots on the hood. They grew over the last 6-7 years, but never came close to perforating the metal.
If your vehicle rusted out up here, you should look for a new manufacturer.
The car lived in New Hampshire the whole time, and never had a garage. (Which may be one reason for its good rust performance. In the 1960s in Ohio we decided a heated garage was a bad thing when salt was in use.)
Smokey says:
July 22, 2012 at 11:22 am
“Mac,
I was defending Anthony against what appeared to be the launching of an attack. Personally, I don’t worry about such ethical conundrums, because I am not a taker; I’m the guy who always pays the freight. And it’s not voluntary.☹”
Fair enough, Smokey!
Thanks for the American Thinker link also.
If you ever get up Seattle way, holler. I’ll buy the beer!
MtK
I come late to this thread due to urgent business business elsewhere. But it makes me chuckle.
As a trainee a long time ago I was the one who put the training rig alternator in 120 degrees out of phase when we had those funny little dials you know. No harm done but I was teased about it for weeks afterwards.
About a month later I really learnt about what spinning reserve meant when on secondment to the then Battersea Power station when an 200 MW alternator shorted, of course the emergency trips came in and shut the turbine etc. But the fireworks were spectacular. Amazingly the repair crews had her back up and running within 48 hours.A busbar failure I believe.
What would be thought of such rapid repair today? when it would need at least endless enquiries from elf and safety, and who knows what else taking months for no good purpose. Same goes for railway accidents, back then a good friend of mine was killed in the Hither Green disaster, but the crews had the line up and passing traffic within a day. Nowadays it would be shut for a month or more as highly paid official vultures picked over the ruins and made their reports.
As for the hard times we live in now well we had them back then too. When a political fuel
shortage and doomsayers persuaded an honest if misguided US President that the end of days were around the corner.
Today there is another kind of US President, who sings the same tune but of whom it might be said you can take the politician out of Chicago but you can’t take Chicago……etc. Over there you will have a vote to decide shortly.
But the doom and gloom back then extended to the railways and in the US especially to the loss of long haul passenger services. Nostalgia really despite politicians trying to get their paws into it with things like Conrail, god bless the Boston and Maine, the US railroads have prospered mightily even if the US taxpayer has suffered dreadfully from Amtrak
And Steve Goodman wrote a wonderfully bittersweet song about it which has been covered by numerous performers since..But to my somewhat addled mind none better than Willie Nelson who had the diction, intonation and ability to carry the tune but also just the right mix of grit and brio that makes the song come alive. Must have been his bandanna.
So for you delectation: here.
Kindest Regards
_Jim says:
July 22, 2012 at 10:59 am
Sorry – I should have include more of the context for you:
James McCauley says:
July 21, 2012 at 9:54 pm
I’m not in the market for a new window AC unit. I was replying to Geoff Sherrington’s assertion:
Unless the SER rating is > 100% (whatever the rating is for more efficient than possible), cooling the house implies dumping heat that may or may not reach the neighbors. The “A/C that we don’t have to use any longer” implies the heat is removed with the attic fan.
How are repair costs for current window AC units? One of ours got stuck on cooling all the time. The thermostat is electronic, and is on the circuit board with the push buttons, lights, beepter, and remote control reader. Cost me $24.90
I also have a failed dishwasher control knob – it cracked through the center par that connects to the electromechanical control shaft. I wrapped some wire around it as an expedient solution. a replacment knob sells for $21-$25! A stupid piece of plastic with a white line and a metal cylindrical spring clip to mate with the “D” shaped control shaft.
My guess is that the control unit goes to obsolete AC units like mine, the knob works on many current units. I may have been the beneficiary of the vendor wanting to get rid of old stuff.
Holy Crap. Krugman in the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/opinion/krugman-loading-the-climate-dice.html
doug kemp says:
July 22, 2012 at 11:05 am
Cameron Wake (as oppose to Cameron Wake the football player) is primarily a CO2 person. I tend to ignore him as I’m not sure all that many people take hime seriously. I and Joe D’Aleo testifed to the NH Governor’s Climate Change Task Force were Wake was the only scientist and have also testified in support of getting out of RGGI.
Towns often have meetings about various subjects, New England towns do a formal town meeting every year. While SeacoastOnline is a Wake fan, I don’t think he has the influence on the rest of the state you think he does.
I’m a ways away from the seacoast region, I don’t think it’s worth my time going there.
For anyone interested in the design, cost, and performance of a PV system, here is a webpage about my 2 kW grid-tied PV system in Colorado: http://milo-scientific.com/pers/PV_system/
Don’t know if anyone has mentionwed it, but Norfolk police have concluded that the the release of CRU emails and data was an outside hack, not an inside job.
http://www.norfolk.police.uk/newsevents/newsstories/2012/july/ueadatabreachinvestigation.aspx
[REPLY: Barry, you are usually better than this.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/19/media-questions-and-answers-from-the-norfolk-police-regarding-the-closing-of-climategate/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/19/more-info-on-the-ueacru-climategate-investigation-by-norfolk-police/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/climategate-investigation-closed-cops-impotent/
A number of us who have a certain rudimentary skill level have come to the conclusion that turning to a life of cyber-crime is best attempted in the UK and Norfolk in particular. There is also a somewhat stronger consensus that the Norfolk announcement is not what it appears. -REP]
Barry, may I translate? Thank you:
“There is no evidence to suggest that anyone outside the University of East Anglia was involved in the leak.”
That’s not translation, Smokey, that’s contradiction.
REP,
thanks for the link. I don’t visit WUWT every day. More like once a week, or less.
I’ll read the thread, but I’m pretty skeptical of second-guessing the police. I know that there is a ‘strong concensus’ here to believe that this was an inside job, and I expect to find that the conversation bends every effort to highlght whatever supports that contention, and downplay anything against it – such as constructing a theory that the police are not being forthright.
But I don’t see why there should be a problem with accepting that it was an outside job. At least we know the theft did not occur from within the university (according to the police).
[REPLY: Barry, you are one of ten commenters who have my ID information and can do the research to begin to understand why my position is that you ALWAYS second-guess the police. Reading Bishop Hill and following the lnks there should give you an idea of the depths of corruption in the UK. -REP]
barry,
If that’s so, then cite your evidence that it was an outside hack.
Just cite your evidence. That’s all.
That should be very easy… if you have any evidence.
Either I have forgotten or you are mistaking me for someone else. I’m not sure who you are. I have had very few private exchanges with regulars at this site. Last time I can remember was when attempting to provide WUWT with documents from the American Tradition Institute. I did not take note of anyone’s identity in those exchanges.
Most of my extended family are or have been in the police force in Australia and I don’t think i’m too naive about it. I think positing corruption on this issue would be highly speculative. There’s no angle worth their effort, and I doubt there is any solid evidence to support an alternative contention. One can construct any scenario, but without solid facts it smacks of wishful thinking.
The 3 articles you posted and following discussions don’t offer anything sustantial against the police statement. I’ll follow the trail to Bishop Hill if you’d like to post links, but otherwise I expect ‘researching’ this discussion will be a waste of time, useful only for those who are invested in a particular narrative. I am not.