XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics, alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:53:04 -0400, micky   
    wrote:   
      
   >In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:45:45 +0100, "Commander   
   >Kinsey"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:25:56 +0100, Andy Burns  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I noticed some new houses being built, all with environmental shit, like   
   >>>> solar panels, water reclamation from gutters etc.  But why do they have   
   >>>> only 3 or 4 panels when the roof could hold about 12?   
   >>>   
   >>> Very little incentive to have any at all now that the feed-in/bribery   
   >>> tariff has ended.   
   >>   
   >>That's what I would have thought, but these houses are only a couple of   
   years old.  None I could understand, loads I could understand, but not a few   
   on each roof.   
   >   
   >I would wait until I saw someone working in the yard, and I'd ask him.   
   >   
   >If I never saw anyone, I'd ring the doorbell and ask.   
   >   
   >If you do these things nicely, people are happy to talk.   
      
   I read the thread and it's all speculation.    Right off the bat, I can   
   think of two times I stopped to ask a homeowner a question.   
      
   One time it was an old house on what's left of the old road from   
   Baltimore to Harrisburg**.  He talked for 5 minutes and then invited me   
   to come back and he'd show me the inside of the house.   
      
   **It's not labeled like that. You have to figure it out.   
      
      
   Another time I was interested in the coal-miner strike in Harlan Co.   
   Kentucky, and I picked a guy at random in a pretty suburban n'hood, the   
   first guy I picked, and his father was one of the strikers and he   
   remembered a lot of details. He talked to me for about 20 minutes.   
      
      
   Smile, introduce yourself, make it clear you're just curious (not a tax   
   assessor, bill collector, politician, or whoever get's the bum's rush in   
   Scotland.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)