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FINISHED painting interior of front door!
Hank Rogers wrote:
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> Sheldon Martin wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 11:22:43 -0700 (PDT), "
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 9:57:28 AM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Why didn't you install solar panels on your roof? You could have generated
> >>>> your own electricity and probably sold some back to your local power company.
> >>>
> >>> I doubt his roof has enough area at the correct exposure for solar
> >>> panels to produce much.
> >>>
> >> It would depend on the direction his house faces. He's got enough roof
> >> surface he could have several panels plus his garage roof would accomodate
> >> more panels.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Where I live a lot of people place the solar
> >>> panels in their yard on posts that are cemented into the ground so
> >>> they're up off the ground so they can mow around them and so they can
> >>> brush the snow off. They don't like to place them on their roof as
> >>> they will cause the roof to leak.
> >>>
> >> Properly installed solar panels do not cause leaks. There are some
> >> available that actually open like ladies handheld fan but these open
> >> a full 360° and are mounted on a post. But these are quite expen$ive.
> >>>
> >>> I doubt it would work well on that
> >>> tile roof anyway, they'd have to drill a lot of bolt holes.
> >>>
> >> He was needing a new roof anyway. He could have replaced it with longlife
> >> asphalt shingles and the money he saved on the roofing could have been used
> >> for solar panels.
> >>>
> >>> I thought about installing solar panels here and even had a company do
> >>> a survey. I have several acres they could use but I didn't want to
> >>> look at those ugly panels and there would be a lot of mowing and snow
> >>> removal. Plus more than half the time they'd produce no elctricity,
> >>> they produce nothing at night or on cloudy days.
> >>>
> >> That's why you stay on the electric company's grid to provide you with power
> >> on days with extended cloudiness, snow, or rain.
> >>>
> >>> Once installed I'd
> >>> be responsible for their maintenence and repairs.
> >>>
> >> Just like you are responsible for maintenance on your house and vehicles.
> >>>
> >>> The panels are
> >>> mostly made of plastic, UV light wreaks havoc on those panels so they
> >>> don't last long.
> >>>
> >> That, I don't know. But I don't hear people complaining about replacing
> >> those panels all the time.
> >>>
> >>> Solar panels are okay for a few small light bulbs
> >>> but would need a lot of panels to run A/C, an electric stove, a
> >>> clothes dryer, a fridge/freezer, charge an electric car, fergetabout
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >> Not true. Depending on how many panels you have installed they can power
> >> a large house.
> >>>
> >>> Solar power is a long way into the future. Solar is good for
> >>> powering small electronics, like a calculator, a medical thermometer,
> >>> a toothbrush, a clock. The main drawback to solar is transmission.
> >>>
> >> Again, not true. The one thing that holds people back from installing
> >> the panels is the initial cost.
> >
> > Those with the money for the installation are typically too old to get
> > the payback... for me at my age it would be like kootchie at his age
> > spending more on a roof than his entire house cost. When they did the
> > survey they quoted me a price for the panels and installation of
> > $240,000. If we live to be 100 our electric bills won't equal that.
> > There are better ways to keep one's electric usage low. I've been
> > frugal with electric all my life, I don't turn on lights on a sunny
> > day, I open the shades and I automatically turn off lights when I
> > leave a room. And recently we changed all our lighting to LED, cut
> > our electric bill to less than half, especially with all outside
> > lighting LED on at dusk off at dawn fixtures... those lights last a
> > long time (15-20 years) could easily outlive us, no bulbs to buy and
> > no climbing ladders to change bulbs. We have all the creature
> > comforts, more than most... four TVs, two refrigerator freezers, two
> > cars, all the food we can eat. We're simply not wasteful. We gave up
> > eating at restaurants, they are all way over priced and their quality
> > is the lowest possible. I have no problem doing all our cooking.
> > Makes us ill speding over $100 on a restaurant dinner for two and
> > leaving very disappointed and hungry, even the service stinks, what
> > service, there is none. And restaurants are especially rip offs on
> > bar drinks. Their salads are wilted greens out of those plastic bags.
> > It reached the point that we couldn't find anything on their menus
> > that we wanted to eat that I couldn't prepare at home for half the
> > price or less and of far better quality. For dinner yesterday I made
> > center cut pork loin chops on the bone, thick cut 1 1/4", seasoned
> > with fresh ground white pepper, fresh ginger, soy sauce, toasted
> > sesame seed oil, pan fried. Then in the same pan stir fried slivered
> > garlic and a big mess of Swiss chard fresh from our garden. We
> > couldn't finish those huge pork chops so we have half for tonight with
> > a bigger batch of Swiss chard. When we decide on beef steak I'll make
> > a quick trip into town and ask the same butcher at Tops whats good, he
> > never fails to produce high quality steaks, much better than any
> > so-called fancy schmancy steak house... it's no big deal to cook
> > steak... probably one of the simplest foods to prepare. And for 1/3
> > the price of a fancy schmancy steak house. And I never minded pouring
> > our own booze. My wife has her Belizean rum and coke and I have my
> > Crystal Palace and sugar free Sprite with a big lemon wedge. The same
> > butcher prepares our pork chops, also extremely easy to cook. Lately
> > I prefer pan frying rather than on the outside grill. We're not in
> > the least concerned about grill marks. I prefer to pan fry meat and
> > then to immediately stir fry the veggies in the same pan, much more
> > flavor. The veggie garden is now producing full tilt, yellow and
> > green summer squash, Kirby Cukes up the kazoo, mixed salad greens, and
> > tons of Swiss chard... soon tomatoes and peppers... already melons and
> > pumpkins are set, we have people to gift with ovearge. We grow
> > pumpkins for decor.
> >
>
> Popeye Yoose sure like to type. 
Cheri used to call that his "Wall of Text" heheh
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