honda insight

[Bulldoggie]

You did get the memo about smug not being a good thing, right?

Also, you say wars are not fought over electricity?...I seem to recall a pretty good row between two dudes named Edison & Westinghouse. ( IIRC, Tesla & Kelvin were the corner men...can't remember the name of the ring girl)

Ldub,
I always love your comments, they're great!
I think the War over electricity was fought on Wall St. and court rooms.
Very different kind of "smart" bombs, few if any were killed.

[nater]

LOL! I do know somebody who is more smug than me. He has TWO RAV4-EVs, and every month he gets a statement showing how much is owed by the Dept of Water and Power. His solar panels generate all of the electricity needed to run TWO cars (20,000 miles per year EACH), all of his household needs, and then some extra. The extra electricity he sells back to the utility, and they post a credit to his account. It's grown to a few thousand dollars over the years, but they refuse to send him a check.

Well, technically, he isn't smug, he's had an epiphany. He's also in the film "Who Killed the Electric Car."

I've had the same epiphany, but I'm still a little smug. It's kind of like when you first got a cell phone, and you have this epiphany that you can carry a PHONE in your pocket. But what if you had a cell phone, but nobody else did? Wouldn't you tell everyone you knew? Show it to them, let them try it out? Would a landline ever be the same? Sure, it has its downsides, like it has to be charged all the time, but, damn, it's cool.

Nate

[Ldub]

LOL! I do know somebody who is more smug than me. He has TWO RAV4-EVs, and every month he gets a statement showing how much is owed by the Dept of Water and Power. His solar panels generate all of the electricity needed to run TWO cars (20,000 miles per year EACH), all of his household needs, and then some extra. The extra electricity he sells back to the utility, and they post a credit to his account. It's grown to a few thousand dollars over the years, but they refuse to send him a check.

Well, technically, he isn't smug, he's had an epiphany. He's also in the film "Who Killed the Electric Car."

I've had the same epiphany, but I'm still a little smug. It's kind of like when you first got a cell phone, and you have this epiphany that you can carry a PHONE in your pocket. But what if you had a cell phone, but nobody else did? Wouldn't you tell everyone you knew? Show it to them, let them try it out? Would a landline ever be the same? Sure, it has its downsides, like it has to be charged all the time, but, damn, it's cool.

Nate

I spent a number of years "nearly off the grid"...but in a different way.
I got all my water from the gutter system on the house & out buildings, that all dumped into a 95000 gal cistern & supplied all house water & irrigated about 11 acres of coffee. (You can't imagine the things I've seen in there, thank God for filtration)
My solar water heat was circulated by a pump driven by a photovoltaic cell. I wasn't there long enough to implement a wind generator.

Alas, now I'm back to living in a town with the rest of the sheeple, but, believe it or don't, I still have no need for a cel phone (though I once had a job that required me to have one), haven't had any type of broadcast television since last September, though I do love a good Blu Ray movie or video game on my LCD flat panel & PS3.

Oh, I'm Soooo conflicted.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled topic...please.

[Chopper]

Ldub,
I always love your comments, they're great!
I think the War over electricity was fought on Wall St. and court rooms.
Very different kind of "smart" bombs, few if any were killed.

Edison cooked an elephant to prove the inherant danger in Westinghouse's methods. We fry up humans the same way still