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to technology/energy folks,
why haven’t we gotten to the point of producing
a cheap, easy to install solar panel array that’s as easy to have installed as cable?
It just seems that in the past 10 years they’ve managed to slim TV’s to credit card dimensions and huge drops in prices.
why not solar energy for the home?
um cobble, you seem to have missed the part where I said I had an apt in Houston. I have spent many hours not in just refinery towns, but actual refineries, oil tankers, chemical tankers, barges, and so on. Yeah, it’s a trade-off. But refineries provide not only many jobs, but the products that we need to live our daily lives. Else we can just shut them all down and buy that much more stuff from China.
I think you have played to a New York stereotype. Whine about the lack of opportunity, complain that Congress is being mean-spirited by not extending unemployment past two years, but then scoff at a place where folks make stuff.
dona, Houston also #3 center of photography after New York and Santa Fe. But for me it’s too damn hot. I’m staying here or heading north cuz that’s me.
This is a hard call for me because without industry this country will be lost. But i want to see some balance- too many industries have been totally neglectful of their environmental impact and the ecology of the planet is fragile. There’s a bigger picture here but for a lot of reasons we seem to be paying attention to none of it. So we are losing industry and screwing the planet. We seem to have covered all the wrong bases.
Whatever, denton/benson. You guys see things your way, I see things my way. Go spend some time (rather than imagining what it’s like) in Brownsville or other refinery towns and get back to me.
But I do agree that Austin is the Brooklyn of Texas. I spent a good deal of time in Texas years ago.
to technology/energy folks,
why haven’t we gotten to the point of producing
a cheap, easy to install solar panel array that’s as easy to have installed as cable?
It just seems that in the past 10 years they’ve managed to slim TV’s to credit card dimensions and huge drops in prices.
why not solar energy for the home?
um cobble, you seem to have missed the part where I said I had an apt in Houston. I have spent many hours not in just refinery towns, but actual refineries, oil tankers, chemical tankers, barges, and so on. Yeah, it’s a trade-off. But refineries provide not only many jobs, but the products that we need to live our daily lives. Else we can just shut them all down and buy that much more stuff from China.
Cobblehiller;
I think you have played to a New York stereotype. Whine about the lack of opportunity, complain that Congress is being mean-spirited by not extending unemployment past two years, but then scoff at a place where folks make stuff.
Whatever works for you.
denton quote: the ExLax factory…
oh, yes, french drains
dona, Houston also #3 center of photography after New York and Santa Fe. But for me it’s too damn hot. I’m staying here or heading north cuz that’s me.
This is a hard call for me because without industry this country will be lost. But i want to see some balance- too many industries have been totally neglectful of their environmental impact and the ecology of the planet is fragile. There’s a bigger picture here but for a lot of reasons we seem to be paying attention to none of it. So we are losing industry and screwing the planet. We seem to have covered all the wrong bases.
donatella,
me too, I like to have my back to the ocean.
(and not the Pacific)
@cingularME.com
Whatever, denton/benson. You guys see things your way, I see things my way. Go spend some time (rather than imagining what it’s like) in Brownsville or other refinery towns and get back to me.
But I do agree that Austin is the Brooklyn of Texas. I spent a good deal of time in Texas years ago.