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   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:24:06 +0100, Sir Gregory Hall,  Esq.  wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 17:07:18 -0700, "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <   
   our_Colonel@usa.com> wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 6/6/2019 1:37 PM, assworm wrote:   
   >>> On 2019-06-06 1:35 p.m., 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?   
   >>>   
   >>> "how many did the costumer buy?" asked the village idiot.   
   >   
   > PeeScent is rather the dullard, Sir!  He, like many other fools,   
   > often confuses rooftop solar water heaters with photovoltaics.   
   >   
   > Idiots see four panels and assume (make an ass out of themselves)   
   > they are looking at photovoltaics.   
      
   I'm the one that saw them and I know they're photovoltaics.  You can see the   
   pattern in them.   
      
   > Truth be known if one installs   
   > enough photovoltaics to run the average house's total electricity   
   > needs one needs a solar farm mounted on cleared land of at least   
   > 100 3-foot by 5-foot solar panels. Not to mention a giant bank   
   > of storage batteries - about forty, 12-volt, deep cycle, flooded   
   > or gel cell batteries PLUS a giant inverter producing a max of   
   > about 10,000 watts.   
   >   
   > Off the grid living as if one is ON the grid is wildly expensive.   
      
   Agreed.  Solar power is pathetically feeble and generates fuck all compared to   
   modern electricity usage.   
      
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