> ...greed steals. Another stupid liberal cliche.
> > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Mugsy Lunsford <[email protected]> wrote: > > > we could be doing this too; would already have done it had our congress > > not been so deeply funded by coal and oil. :( And another one! > > > > My dad's proposal to make all FLA school roofs into solar energy > > generators back in 1972 was so vigorously denigrated by the state lege that > > he gave up his solar energy business, He couldn't get a government subsidy so he gave up? Why didn't he pursue private capital to build a company and grow a market for his ideas? He wouldn't need any legislature to do that. In fact, if his idea was so good there's no reason you can't pursue it yourself without any government subsidies. Just do it. > > even though he'd just designed a > > collector that could be built by anyone using common materials, and not > > only heat water up to the boiling point but also store it. I went to an > > energy committee meeting in 1978, hoping to get some support to bring him > > back into the fray, and was told that he could not have done what his > > documentation showed. No discussion, just denial. > > > > > > http://inhabitat.com/germany-sets-new-solar-record-by-meeting-nearly-half-of-countrys-weekend-power-demand/ > > > > > > > > -- > knowledge and wisdom come from knowing a ""republican conservative"" is an > oxymoron. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > > Francis Drouillard, PE Novato, CA 94945 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
