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PornDiscounts-V · 12-15-2014, 08:54 AM

I was shocked by 220v long before anybody paid me to do it. I didn't do it to be cool...

dyna mo · 12-15-2014, 08:59 AM

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We are going to end up with a wind solar hybrid system geared mostly to wind. We usually have a 12 mph wind around almost 24/7 Sun in the winter is a solid 8+ hours of high and strong enough but we get some slow wind days. so it will be 2 or 3 panels for that time and wind the rest.

wind eh? any details or ?? I'm curious about the system.

Ban Svici · 12-15-2014, 09:03 AM

be careful man

dyna mo · 12-15-2014, 09:07 AM

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Well I drive an 86 Vanagon, so as far as new car carbon footprint I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of the game. However it's not fair to assume that everyone can get by with an older vehicle. If mine breaks I can fix pretty much anything on it myself, however others likely can not do the same. Meaning it's a given that new cars will have to be built and older cars will go by the way side.

So you would have to have some sort of govt mandate to limit the production of new cars, which also has effects on the economy & jobs as less cars built means a whole lot less jobs all the way through the auto manufacturing food chain. Be it the manufacturers, suppliers, dealers or the people whom cook their lunch and take out the trash.

This is why the govt doesn't put a mandate stopping new car production, but instead puts mandates on fuel economy. The idea being that as older cars get less emissions and worse fuel economy get put in the junk yards, the newer more fuel efficient cars take their place.

that's not the point though. this isn't about the government or general numbers, the question was does ********** conserve and the answer is no. It's not a generalized question, it's specific. True conservationists do not add to the problem, they subtract from it, i.e. conserve.

Moreover, one does not have to buy that much of an older car or a pos car to conserve. Canada has GOBS of clean diesel cars for sale there and has for years. A 5 year old VW TDI with 75000 miles on it has already amortized most its' carbon footprint and someone who is interested in cleaning up the environment and not polluting would purchase that car to conserve energy, not a brand new car that also, by the way, has a much larger manufacturing carbon footprint than a clean diesel.

there is a mountain of data online to corroborate what I just wrote too.

dyna mo · 12-15-2014, 09:34 AM

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As Matt Power notes in this month?s issue of Wired, hybrids get great gas mileage but it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to make a Toyota Prius. Because there are about 113,000 BTUs of energy in a gallon of gasoline, the Prius has consumed the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gasoline before it reaches the showroom. Think of it as a carbon debt ? one you won?t pay off until the Prius has turned over 46,000 miles or so.

There?s an easy way to avoid that debt ? buy a used car. The debt has already been paid. But not just any used car will do.

It has to be something fuel efficient. Like, say, a 1998 Toyota Tercel that gets 27 mpg city / 35 mpg highway miles. The Prius will have to go 100,000 miles to achieve the same carbon savings as the 10-year-old Tercel. Get behind the wheel of a 1994 Geo Metro XFi, which matches the Prius? 46 mpg, and the Prius would never close the carbon gap, Power writes.

There are a lot of used cars out there that top 30 mpg, and more than a few that reach into the 40s.

VW jetta clean diesel gets ~60mpg

PR_Glen · 12-15-2014, 09:52 AM

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He died from a 110v wall socket shock?

it's the amperage that can do it. Was lucky not to get killed myself this weekend, had some basement flooding and had to do a mad dash to the breaker to turn the power off...

Jhem · 12-15-2014, 09:58 AM

Power extreme!

crockett · 12-15-2014, 10:05 AM

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