On Thursday 17 April 2014 06:28:32 Steve Blackmore did opine: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 19:03:23 -0400, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 16 April 2014 18:56:52 jeremy youngs did opine: > >> gene, ive been ogling one of jon elsons servo controllers for my > >> treadmill motored mill . but alas i want to do that upgrade after the > >> 1000 $ to ship the mill to home in missouri. it seems almost purpose > >> made for the application. i have been waiting to get the mill there > >> as i have been building solar panels and i think that it would be > >> pretty cool to make chips from sun power and there is not near as > >> much sun here in upstate mew york . > > Modern panels are designed to work in daylight and don't need full > Sunlight. > > >Now that sounds like a cool project. Post pix of the array & storage, > >and the mill as work proceeds. I've not bit the bullet for any solar > >yet, but ready kilowatt has gone on strike for 19 days at a time > >several times over the last 6 years, so I did put in a 20kw nat gas > >generator last fall. > > > >Might go solar if it ever gets down to a penny a watt, but thats not > >going to happen as long as Obummer is messing with it, and locally > >(WV) we have no rule about selling power back to the utils either. > >They would rather burn coal & make more acid rain. > > They drastically reduced the sell back rate over here too! It's now > 6.61p/kWh - was as high as 15 - 40p plus depending on when installed and > how much supplied. > > Break even point is roughly 12 years over here for a domestic > installation.
We can't touch that over here. Lawmakers all bought & paid for by the utilities. > > We'd rather import Polish coal and Russian gas and burn that (even > though we have plenty of our own untapped/mined) and stick up those > noisy, inefficient, eyesore wind turbine bird killers. > > Steve Blackmore > -- Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
