tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post3918881410645228824..comments2024-03-18T17:08:18.111-05:00Comments on Fatale Abstraction: phlegmfatalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636803080525003892noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-51103584957739384832007-03-29T00:51:00.000-05:002007-03-29T00:51:00.000-05:00I think you have to cultivate a kind of zen attitu...I think you have to cultivate a kind of zen attitude that appreciates simplicity and harmlessness. Then ask yourself if you are in the best place where you can express those, and other qualities you wish to express, while you learn to grow your own power!I know there are a lot of primers available to learn what is available. I once built an underground house to experiment with ideas and one of the strangest things I did was to create a heat wall in the room behind my kitchen stove. It was so efficient, I had to make a chimney running down hill to get rid of the smoke. It ran down hill!!The truth is that you don't have to be a hobbit; if you have the cash to surround your self with lovely things and still can go off grid, all the more power to you! but first you have to want to do it!<BR/>...........................E.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-85693299709817463732007-03-28T01:46:00.000-05:002007-03-28T01:46:00.000-05:00Hm. I thought "Biblical" extrapolation placed the...Hm. I thought "Biblical" extrapolation placed the earth's age at around 10,000 years? Anyway, that's what they fed me in my church and school growing up...but they lied a lot. (Where's the Biblical injunction against premarital sex, for instance? The only one I really find is about rape.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, solar power has indeed increased in efficiency, and gone down in relative price, but your comments re loss leaders are spot-on.J.R.Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08498164179579546593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-57269586903996833602007-03-27T23:29:00.000-05:002007-03-27T23:29:00.000-05:00well said. Gore is becoming the Chairman Mao of gl...well said. Gore is becoming the Chairman Mao of global warming.FHBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04261425729050948728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-63564341459463412522007-03-27T13:42:00.000-05:002007-03-27T13:42:00.000-05:00oooh...home power...one of my favorite things.Shor...oooh...home power...one of my favorite things.<BR/><BR/>Short of a Mr. Fusion, I've given a lot of thought to going solar/wind combo and either getting off the grid completely or (horrors!) making surplus and selling it back (take that TXU! Bastages!) For what my electric bill was during a couple of months last year, I could get a fine start on buying panels.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Rabbit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-57814554925422935072007-03-27T12:30:00.000-05:002007-03-27T12:30:00.000-05:00Being of a somewhat conservative nature, I am incl...Being of a somewhat conservative nature, I am inclined towards conservationism and moderation, especially seeing as how our energy excesses have led to a precarious international position. There is no reason not to reduce our energy consumption and cut down on pollution. But I think half the battle is ignoring the shrieking Lesbian Seagull hysterics who manage to reduce even the most important things to one monotonous Cause.Zeldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057183557031707514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3786818.post-63256171542496875262007-03-27T03:47:00.000-05:002007-03-27T03:47:00.000-05:00Scientists risk losing all funding if they go agai...Scientists risk losing all funding if they go against the political fashion of global warming.<BR/><BR/>Solar is good but expensive and inneficient. It would take at least 10 years to realize savings and the life span of the panels isn't often that long.<BR/><BR/>Within 5 years they are supposed to have solar paint that turns your entire house into a solar panel. I hope it works out.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07550167783969561280noreply@blogger.com