Arkady,
there were big incentives this year for having the full installation done.
I’ve been looking into it.
there are several companies in long island that specialize in doing the installations.
the best price i’ve gotten came out to something like 10k out of pocket with all the incentives, deductions and credits.
I really think if they could get it down to 5k, it would be silly not to go through with it.
Imagine doing away with the electric and possibly the heating bill each month?
Legion – There are some kits you can buy that are easily assembled for some basic solar installations & they’re affordable but really small-scale. I’d imagine it won’t be long until there are more offers of, e.g., off-the-shelf hot water heaters.
Houston is horrible in summer. Between the heat, and the knee deep flash flooding from storms, you can keep it. But it does have a cool gay ghetto or two, as I recall.
The hill country west of Austin the best part. (New Braunfels is very nice, too, but that’s south-ish, if I recall?) There was a great bar up on a big hill, over looking lake Travis, that I loved.
denton,
I’m sure solar cells will always require specialists to actually hook into the grid,
I just wonder what’s taking so long for the technology to become easily affordable, it seems like a no brainer for this country.
lol,prezanon,
you are quite enigmatic,
do you post from work?
Dibs, yes, we need to deal with China. A few things really scare the shit out of me re China. I went through this crazy thing when I came home from Japan. I was fascinated with China! So many of the things I had thought to be purely Japanese was derivative, from art to philosophy, to language etc. I then went on a reading binge and I was fascinated by Mao and the Cultural Revolution and couldn’t believe what happened there. We talked about it here — up to 100 million killed by Mao and the society like a gigantic prison camp. My good friend spent time in prison (after trying to escape) and then I was so excited in 89 after the Berlin wall and then Tianamen Square happened there. And then forcing women to have abortions…. We have certain ideas about freedom and well, yes, we have to deal with them and win, but wow, we can’t lose outselves in the process.
Benson, would you like to raise children under a brown sky?
I have a cousin down on the eastern shore who did his whole house about 15 years ago. Truly amazing.
Arkady,
there were big incentives this year for having the full installation done.
I’ve been looking into it.
there are several companies in long island that specialize in doing the installations.
the best price i’ve gotten came out to something like 10k out of pocket with all the incentives, deductions and credits.
I really think if they could get it down to 5k, it would be silly not to go through with it.
Imagine doing away with the electric and possibly the heating bill each month?
Legion – There are some kits you can buy that are easily assembled for some basic solar installations & they’re affordable but really small-scale. I’d imagine it won’t be long until there are more offers of, e.g., off-the-shelf hot water heaters.
Houston is horrible in summer. Between the heat, and the knee deep flash flooding from storms, you can keep it. But it does have a cool gay ghetto or two, as I recall.
The hill country west of Austin the best part. (New Braunfels is very nice, too, but that’s south-ish, if I recall?) There was a great bar up on a big hill, over looking lake Travis, that I loved.
denton,
I’m sure solar cells will always require specialists to actually hook into the grid,
I just wonder what’s taking so long for the technology to become easily affordable, it seems like a no brainer for this country.
lol,prezanon,
you are quite enigmatic,
do you post from work?
Dibs, yes, we need to deal with China. A few things really scare the shit out of me re China. I went through this crazy thing when I came home from Japan. I was fascinated with China! So many of the things I had thought to be purely Japanese was derivative, from art to philosophy, to language etc. I then went on a reading binge and I was fascinated by Mao and the Cultural Revolution and couldn’t believe what happened there. We talked about it here — up to 100 million killed by Mao and the society like a gigantic prison camp. My good friend spent time in prison (after trying to escape) and then I was so excited in 89 after the Berlin wall and then Tianamen Square happened there. And then forcing women to have abortions…. We have certain ideas about freedom and well, yes, we have to deal with them and win, but wow, we can’t lose outselves in the process.
November 30, 2010 2:01 PM
“I read the entire Wikipedia entry when I googled “sociology” the other day so I’m pretty much a sociologist now.”
I read the entire PATH schedule yesterday, so I’m pretty much a pathologist now.
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Late catching up, but does reading the OT make one an Openthrologist?
Biff, thx too for the email to cell.
New Braunfels is nice.