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2024-04-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
The price can only go down. On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 3:21 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Good point. I talked to the guy today and he’s barely sold any, which > means when I’m ready at the beginning of May I should be able to negotiate > a better deal. > > -D > >

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2024-04-06 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Good point. I talked to the guy today and he’s barely sold any, which means when I’m ready at the beginning of May I should be able to negotiate a better deal. -D > On Apr 2, 2024, at 8:35 PM, mitch--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > On 2024-04-02 20:04, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > >>

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2024-04-02 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2024-04-02 20:04, Craig via Mercedes wrote: $160.00 --- = $ 0.32 / Watt, which is really cheap. 500 W I wouldn't pay $160 for a used 340W sans warranty, but for 500W you're getting somewhere. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com

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2024-04-02 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 22:32:42 + "dan penoff.com via Mercedes" wrote: > Got a chance to get some used panels that are a couple years old that > are “take-outs” from a commercial installation where the roof space got > removed for a remodel. > > Owner has tested them and has specs for each

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2024-04-02 Thread MB list etc via Mercedes
A quick search brought up $320 installed for new ones. On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 at 5:32 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Got a chance to get some used panels that are a couple years old that are > “take-outs” from a commercial installation where the roof space got removed > for a

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2022-07-14 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Revelation! Our solar installations send the electricity we generate back to the grid. We can then buy that electricity to power our houses, right? So basically we are paying, out of pocket (by buying and installing a solar set up on our roofs) to supplement the electricity supply of the power

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
The term in the generator industry for utility power is “infinite buss”. -D > On Jul 14, 2022, at 4:55 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > "3. If you want to charge your EV with solar, your EV has to be in the same > place as the solar during daylight hours, or you need extra

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Oh and I forgot, the 2023 Bolt is cheaper than the 2022: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chevy-slashes-prices-of-2023-bolt-making-it-the-cheapest-ev-in-america-210129059.html -Curt On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 07:01:32 PM EDT, mitch--- via Mercedes wrote: On 2022-07-14 18:47, Curt Raymond

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
"3. If you want to charge your EV with solar, your EV has to be in the same place as the solar during daylight hours, or you need extra batteries." Use the grid as a battery, run the meter backwards during the day while the sun is shining, draw from the grid in the evening while charging the

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2022-07-14 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-07-14 18:47, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: Grant, I feel like your arguments are not in good faith. 1. A Tesla model 3 starts at $45k, the Chevy bolt at less than $30k. Your car price is high by 50%. 2. Your PV price is 50% higher than Dimitri's overinflated price. 3. Batteries are

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Grant, I feel like your arguments are not in good faith. 1. A Tesla model 3 starts at $45k, the Chevy bolt at less than $30k. Your car price is high by 50%. 2. Your PV price is 50% higher than Dimitri's overinflated price. 3. Batteries are not required and nobody with any sense wants them. So

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
A home-solar-charged EV might work very well for me, as I don't go out at all most days. A reasonably-sized panel, over a period of days, could be expected to supply a decent amount of energy. So long as the EV had the range I might need on any given day, it would all work. If it was a little

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2022-07-14 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
I have to question the simple math on that equation. 1. EV purchase... $60,000 plus 2. Solar installation to home to charge EV... another $45,000 +- [estimate]. 3. Battery storage system to contain solar energy captured another $40,000. Puts you into an investment of $105,000 [factored over

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2022-07-14 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
TMI was THE watershed event in my industry. Back in the day all of the design was there, but the operators of that era weren’t diligent enough or clever enough to use it all correctly. There was little to no regulation. Distilled down, there were not many “thou shalts” in those days and the

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
If you watch the Netflix documentary on 3 Mile Island, one of the really scary bits is when they talk about how they weren’t doing any monitoring around the plant, so when there was a release of radioactive material into the atmosphere they had no idea of how much or where it went. To this day

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2022-07-14 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
I worked at a McDonalds many years ago, and they had a system which took the waste heat from the ice makers and drink chillers and used it to preheat water for the water heater. This also took load off of the building A/C. On Thu, Jul 14, 2022, at 12:37 PM, mitch--- via Mercedes wrote: > On

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2022-07-14 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Chernobyl definitely, they did not inform the operating engineers about the design defects in the reactor, because Soviet design was flawless. 3 Mile Island I want to say was initiated by a problem with maintenance of a valve or something that wasn't handled properly or didn't have the proper

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
It was, with the best episode being the third one, I thought. The guy who was the whistleblower was awesome. Talk about someone who stuck to their guns. -D On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: Yes, that was a good series. Sent from

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Those were as 'accidental' as what would happen if you set out a bucket full of loaded pistols at a playground. But a lot more difficult to prevent, as big money and politics, as well as ignorance and fear, were involved. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com

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2022-07-14 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Yes, that was a good series. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2022, at 11:33 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > Probably better that they didn’t, considering that they couldn’t do it > without the contractors cutting corners. Look at France, they’ve got a > boatload of the

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2022-07-14 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-07-14 12:30, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: You really want gravy out of your power generation system, find a way to use the waste heat. Water cooled PV panels, preheating domestic hot water... ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
In all cases accidents that could have been/should have been avoided. -Curt On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:30:04 PM EDT, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima . . . On 14/07/2022 11:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > Wow, too bad they never

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Probably better that they didn’t, considering that they couldn’t do it without the contractors cutting corners. Look at France, they’ve got a boatload of the things operating for many decades without issues. Watch episode three of this NetFlix documentary on Three Mile Island:

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima . . . All bad designs, sited/built/run by idiots. NONE of those 'accidents' had any legitimate excuse for happening. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

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2022-07-14 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Those were all related to corruption I believe. I’m sure Az bob can fill us in on how safe it is now days. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2022, at 11:30 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima . . . > > >> On 14/07/2022 11:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
You really want gravy out of your power generation system, find a way to use the waste heat. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

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2022-07-14 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima . . . On 14/07/2022 11:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: Wow, too bad they never built more of those. Might have helped with our energy problems. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2022, at 11:24 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:  Is that a lot? That's 50%

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2022-07-14 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 14/07/2022 11:23 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: Is that a lot? That's 50% more than the Grand Coulee Dam puts out. I would call that a lot. I bet it's noticeably smaller, too! -- Jim And hotter too. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list

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2022-07-14 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Wow, too bad they never built more of those. Might have helped with our energy problems. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2022, at 11:24 AM, Jim Cathey wrote: > >  >> >> Is that a lot? > > That's 50% more than the Grand Coulee Dam puts out. I would call that a lot. > I bet it's

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> Is that a lot? That's 50% more than the Grand Coulee Dam puts out. I would call that a lot. I bet it's noticeably smaller, too! -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery

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2022-07-14 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Is that a lot? Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2022, at 11:20 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes > wrote: > > My old nuke plant generates about 33.7 million megawatt hours annually. > > AZBob > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:05 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >> 

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2022-07-14 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
My old nuke plant generates about 33.7 million megawatt hours annually. AZBob Sent from my iPad > On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:05 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > >  >> >> $0.05kwh is really, really low. We pay $0.10kwh which is apparently just >> below average:

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> $0.05kwh is really, really low. We pay $0.10kwh which is apparently just > below average: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ > Fun Facts: The Grand Coulee Dam on Washington's Columbia River is the largest power plant by generation capacity in the

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
$0.05kwh is really, really low. We pay $0.10kwh which is apparently just below average: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ That isn't the total cost of electricity. Where I live anyway, our cost of transmission etc is based on usage so total cost would be higher. Solar is usually based on

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Looks similar, with the power supply rates in place but transmission costs not included. That’s fair. -D > On Jul 14, 2022, at 8:40 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > On 2022-07-14 11:27, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> That’s a concern if it was for the Florida house. As I

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2022-07-14 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-07-14 11:35, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: At $1/W, and $0.055/kWH, it'd take me 1000/0.055 sunny hours to pay off. Roughly 10 years, assuming 5 hours of sun per day, averaged year-round. But maybe my napkin is leaky. I think the map had me at close to 4w/day/rated watt, annual

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2022-07-14 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-07-14 11:27, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: That’s a concern if it was for the Florida house. As I mentioned earlier, we came very close to having net metering legislated away, which would have completely eliminated any payback to speak of. Fortunately, AZ is pretty level headed

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2022-07-14 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
At $1/W, and $0.055/kWH, it'd take me 1000/0.055 sunny hours to pay off. Roughly 10 years, assuming 5 hours of sun per day, averaged year-round. But maybe my napkin is leaky. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
That’s a concern if it was for the Florida house. As I mentioned earlier, we came very close to having net metering legislated away, which would have completely eliminated any payback to speak of. Fortunately, AZ is pretty level headed about solar from a legislative standpoint. -D > On Jul

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
You also have to consider if the price of electricity is going to stay stable. It seems unlikely to me that the price of all other types of energy would continue to rise but electricity would not. Maine saw electricity prices nearly double last year. Of course their power was priced

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2022-07-14 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Yeah unless maybe it's more expensive to get the panels mounted in a hurricane-safe way. You don't want big sheets of glass flying around in 90mph winds. On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, at 1:02 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: > You would think solar would be a huge deal in FL. > > Sent from my

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2022-07-14 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
I am suspicious of the payback equation as well, but that's also very dependent on government actions targeted at changing behaviors, e.g. such as extra tarrifs on "traditional" power or more new credits for solar. Not sure I'd want to predict the future on that. If you had an EV and could

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2022-07-14 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
The specified inverter on Dmitri's quote is worth about $2700 online, and is meant to be used with individual panel optimizers (about $75-100 per panel) so that shading one panel does not affect the rest of the array. So there is considerable cost in the electronics, and it's a premium

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Remember that we're talking mid-coast Maine it's a hot housing market for the up and coming of the state. I expect this solar outfit is mostly used to taking money off of people who don't know how to reset their circuit breakers... -Curt On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 10:18:07 AM EDT, dan

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2022-07-14 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-07-14 10:04, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: Perhaps but still completely unaffordable and I’m not an impoverished chump. Look at the attached quotes. These quotes do not include any batteries. $33k for an 11kW system seems steep. Also probably bigger than necessary. Anyway,

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Batteries are for chumps, stop talking about batteries. I started to run the math on payback but then got to thinking, how much power do you actually use? The small system they spec'd, even with your trees, is expected to produce around 532KWh a month. That's +75% what Angie and I use in all

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2022-07-14 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
That’s one of the reasons to use or form a co-op. With a co-op you have the power of multiple purchasers and you actively solicit the best service provider to get the best deal from the most capable contractor. Without shopping this stuff you’re bound to get reamed. It would be interesting to

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2022-07-14 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Add batteries and the quote jumps to 40-50K and there is no payback in sight. In addition to not being impoverished, I’m also not an idiot. The greenie weenies can shove all their fake green elitist crap where the sun don’t shine. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2022, at 10:11 AM, Dimitri

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2022-07-14 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Sent it again with higher resolution. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 14, 2022, at 10:10 AM, Dimitri Seretakis wrote: > >  > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 14, 2022, at 10:09 AM, Curt Raymond wrote: >> >> Almost illegibly blurry. >> >> Looks like about $2/w. Either they're taking

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Almost illegibly blurry. Looks like about $2/w. Either they're taking a helluva markup on the panels or their labor charge is huge. The people across the street from me have a similarly sized system, 3 guys installed it over 2 days in a snowstorm... You could easily do all the panel

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2022-07-14 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
The price of panels has come down a bunch in the last 10 years. 20 years ago you were looking at $2/w, now you're under $1/w, in some cases way under. -Curt On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 09:09:54 AM EDT, Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes wrote: And if you don’t use what you send back to the

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2022-07-14 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
And if you don’t use what you send back to the grid within one year, Central Maine Power just keeps it, further increasing payback time. It’s a sham on all fronts apparently. One can argue that the indefinite payback time is unimportant because you are doing the right thing for the environment

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2022-07-13 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
yes we had solar assessment 20 years ago & payback time was beyond our natural lives also heard on fire scanner that solar panels prevented firefighters to vent a fire through the roof. On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 4:20 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I had a solar

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2022-07-13 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
THE cheapest, most reliable, and most efficient way to provide emergency heat is via stored fuel. Gas, oil, wood. Everything else can't even be seen in the rear-view mirror, it's so far inferior in all respects. For emergency heating in colder climes, WHILE providing electricity for

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2022-07-13 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Sounds like you got either a dumb company or a fly-by night. The battery backup to run a heat pump through the night is going to be enormous and you're only going to use it occasionally. The best use of solar is to backfeed into the grid, basically run your electric meter backwards while the

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2022-07-13 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
They told me that I needed battery backup to run heat pumps for the purpose of heating my garage. What I was essentially trying to do was heat my garage with heat pumps for very cheap. That didn’t seem to be a workable option with or without batteries due to the trees. The greenie weenies

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2022-07-13 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
That’s one of my concerns, as my lot is heavily treed and I’m not about to take any of them down. That being said, my 3 car garage, which has a large roof exposure, is not as nearly surrounded by trees, so it might be the better spot for panels as far as maximizing exposure to the sun. Do

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2022-07-13 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
I had a solar contractor come over and take a look at my place in Maine. The cheapest system with battery back up which would have met my needs would have cost 40K. He also told me that even though the panels would be facing south, I would never recoup my investment due to a few trees which

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2022-07-13 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
It all depends on what you're trying to do. I quite like the 8Bit Guy's solution: https://youtu.be/RhTDneoDUdc He got snockered in the Texas cold snap last year, heat went out and froze his pipes, big damaged when the water came back on. We've recently been having daily power blips at around

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2022-07-13 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
If I was worried about resilience, as we are in Florida, I would go with a standby generator rather than a battery bank. Probably more expensive, but far less maintenance and a much longer useful life. -D > On Jul 13, 2022, at 10:13 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > A buddy

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2022-07-13 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
A buddy just put solar on their house. I don’t know who they had do it but he was happy with the process. They were waiting on a Tesla battery for some storm resilience last we talked about it --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jul 13, 2022, at 12:55 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > I’ve

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2022-07-13 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
One of the worst states for solar. Mainly because the legislature is in bed with the electric utilities. It’s been so bad there that they’ve even tried to pass an amendment to the state constitution that all but cripples any attempt at point of use (consumer) solar. They just tried to pass a

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2022-07-13 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
I'd want some sort of off-grid functionality, even if it's just a 15A 110v outlet that lets you plug an extension cord into the inverter to run the frige when the grid goes down. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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2022-07-13 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
You would think solar would be a huge deal in FL. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 13, 2022, at 11:55 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > I’ve got a person coming over on Friday from our solar co-op to do a site > survey and put together a proposal for doing solar at the Flagstaff

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar toys for Curt

2021-08-17 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
$1/w isn't that great a deal. We've been able to get that in 100w panels for years. You can get used (about 10 years) panels for $0.25/w with really nothing wrong with them. I'd been considering pulling our existing 3x 100w panels and replacing with 2x 400w but that idea always leaves me

Re: [MBZ] OT: solar cells and catpoo jelly

2021-01-15 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Every month I pour a cup of strong black coffee (unsweetened) into the crankcase of my W123 turbodiesel station wagon. This increases fuel economy by 12.46 percent, on average. On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:20 PM OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > OK - it was the caffeine mention at the end that raised

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2021-01-15 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
OK - it was the caffeine mention at the end that raised my antennae ... On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:14 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On 2021-01-15 11:06, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > > Is it April 1st? > > > if so, somebody expended a lot of effort making it look

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2021-01-15 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-01-15 11:06, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: Is it April 1st? if so, somebody expended a lot of effort making it look good. https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30608-5 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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2021-01-15 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Is it April 1st? On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:02 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > https://interestingengineering.com/sprinkling-chili-compound-boosts-solar-cell-efficiency-study-says > > Researchers have found a rather interesting way of improving solar > cells'

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar camping

2020-02-21 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I bought a bunch of bare warm white LEDs to make some undercabinet lighting but never got them organized.  I was just going to glue them to some lexan strips or something like that, maybe with some aluminum behind to be sort of a heat sink.  I put in some 110V outlets under the cabinets with 2

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2020-02-21 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> The 12v light bulbs can simply be placed in series on a 24v DC system, While bare incandescent bulbs can do this, as can bare LED's, sort of, I doubt LED lighting _systems_ will. (Anything you buy as consumer goods will be a system of some sort, and not bare LED's.) OTOH, many

Re: [MBZ] OT Solar and Wind Power - another view

2019-07-11 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Randy wrote: > Uh, Oh - you are losing touch when you start suggesting that > immunization is more of a threat than nuclear waste Immunization is a done deal, for the most part. You do the immunization and you are set for life. 45-years ago my nephew was born and remains severe autism perhaps

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2019-07-11 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 10/07/2019 8:54 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes wrote: G Mann wrote: The radiation levels at ground level is far above human limits water even more. Food stocks grown in the area concentrate more non human levels yes, etc, etc = all bad. Flight a century ago was all bad too. The old

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2019-07-10 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
All good points regarding building and handling nuke materials, well laid out and supported... Here is a link to Chernobyl with radiation readings , bloom pattern of radiation, with readings, etc etc... Seems factual, and supported by hands on by people who visited "recently"

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2019-07-10 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/09/the-reason-they-fictionalize-nuclear-disasters-like-chernobyl-is-because-they-kill-so-few-people/#6008e93041fc https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/06/why-hbos-chernobyl-gets-nuclear-so-wrong/#7d2cbd7e632f Or you

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2019-07-10 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
G Mann wrote: > The radiation levels at ground level is far above human limits water > even more. Food stocks grown in the area concentrate more non human > levels yes, etc, etc = all bad. Flight a century ago was all bad too. The old people there all seem healthy. Maybe they are video

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2019-07-10 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
The radiation levels at ground level is far above human limits water even more. Food stocks grown in the area concentrate more non human levels Incidents of radiation induced or related cancers are far above the world wide norms for non nuke contaminated areas same for birth defects.

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2019-07-10 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curley wrote: > THERE IS A greeniw weenie out there who is promoting nukes. He was on > Beck this morning. I don't remember his name. He is debunking the > movie about the ruskies melt-down. Interesting stuff. Chernobyl always seems to be the place to be. Modern until the meltdown,

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2019-07-10 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Andrew wrote: > ... I worked in the uranium fuel cycle > and production division in my first fed gov job (DOE). I prepared a competing DOE hydro permit application for Ruedi Reservoir. Water rights, but the reservoir was... who knows? more energy harvest dirt to create? ...dunno. Energy is

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2019-07-10 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Did you watch it?  My understanding (which these days is fungible, apparently, depending on who is telling the tale) is that it pretty much followed the actual sequence of events and the influence of the players involved, based on reports from the players who were there.  But who knows, though

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2019-07-10 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Follow the money... On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, 1:01 PM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > Whow! . can someone actually leave Green Peace and not be executed by > the other members? > Long leap from "save the planet" to "Nukes are Good". > I wonder what the back story is on that "conversion". > > On

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2019-07-10 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Whow! . can someone actually leave Green Peace and not be executed by the other members? Long leap from "save the planet" to "Nukes are Good". I wonder what the back story is on that "conversion". On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 5:55 AM Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > One

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2019-07-10 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
WHat was? On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:17 AM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > And it was apparently mostly BS propaganda. > > Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote on 7/10/19 8:22 AM: > > That Chernobyl show was scary, mostly because it was mostly all due to > > bureaucracy

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2019-07-10 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
And it was apparently mostly BS propaganda. Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote on 7/10/19 8:22 AM: That Chernobyl show was scary, mostly because it was mostly all due to bureaucracy with a small part due to the design.  There is a podcast to go along with it, very interesting, a lot more detail.

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2019-07-10 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
That Chernobyl show was scary, mostly because it was mostly all due to bureaucracy with a small part due to the design.  There is a podcast to go along with it, very interesting, a lot more detail. --FT On 7/10/19 12:19 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: THERE IS A greeniw weenie out there

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2019-07-10 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
One of the founders of Green Peace (who has left the organization) has come around to promoting nuclear power, I think his new organization is called Green Spirit. That might be the guy. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:20 AM Curley McLain via Mercedes <

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2019-07-09 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
THERE IS A greeniw weenie out there who is promoting nukes.  He was on Beck this  morning.  I don't remember his name.   He is debunking the movie about the ruskies melt-down.   Interesting stuff. Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote on 7/9/19 12:44 PM: Perfect. That will leave nuclear, which has

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2019-07-09 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Good point - well worth remembering. I worked in the uranium fuel cycle and production division in my first fed gov job (DOE). At the time there were over 100 nukes on order. After 5 years, almost none remained on the books and not one had been built. On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:44 PM Peter

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2019-07-09 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
And the Feds use the entire output from several coal fired plants in the TVA system to refine the fuel. Nuclear is far from carbon neutral -- I've never been convinced that there is really a net gain from using it when you consider the long term storage and enrichment costs.

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2019-07-09 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Exactly! On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 1:59 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >There's a lot of bad waste sites around. No real clean-up, mere duck > and cover. > All energy is... dirty. > > > THORIUM. > > Rick > > > -- OK Don "Whenever you find yourself on the side of

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2019-07-09 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>There's a lot of bad waste sites around. No real clean-up, mere duck and >cover. All energy is... dirty. THORIUM. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go

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2019-07-09 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Too cheap to meter! On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:12 PM Mountain Man via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Max wrote: > > Perfect. That will leave nuclear, which has been the right choice for > > decades, but for the fear-mongering and ignorance. > > ...dunno... > There's a lot of bad

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2019-07-09 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Max wrote: > Perfect. That will leave nuclear, which has been the right choice for > decades, but for the fear-mongering and ignorance. ...dunno... There's a lot of bad waste sites around. No real clean-up, mere duck and cover. All energy is... dirty. Perhaps we just gotta let dirt be whether

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2019-07-09 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Perfect. That will leave nuclear, which has been the right choice for decades, but for the fear-mongering and ignorance. - Max Charleston SC On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 1:30 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > And for the oil industry as well. >

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2019-07-09 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
And for the oil industry as well. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/oil-tax-break.asp On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 1:13 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > WITHDRAWAL OF SUBSIDIES. Easy! > > Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote on 7/9/19 10:49 AM: > > >

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2019-07-09 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
WITHDRAWAL OF SUBSIDIES. Easy! Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote on 7/9/19 10:49 AM: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/what_it_will_take_for_the_wind_and_solar_industries_to_collapse.html - Max Charleston SC _ ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: Solar powered motion sensor lighting

2018-11-27 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
I have the little ones. Not super bright, but even a modest amount of light is enough when you're in the dark. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018, 8:01 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: > We have massive sun exposure in front - house faces due South - and on the > east wall

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2018-11-27 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I need something more compact, in one housing w/o wires or a separate solar collector.. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:00 AM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > Almost, but not quite.. > Like this example. > > >

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2018-11-26 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Almost, but not quite.. Like this example.

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2018-11-26 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On November 26, 2018 at 11:29 PM G Mann via Mercedes > wrote: > > > The newest use "COBB" LED lights, which are very bright. Like this? https://www.amazon.com/Magictec-Security-Lighting-Waterproof-Driveway/dp/B071P4X7F1 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

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