Is solar green?

[copymepls]

That's just the thing I'm not on meds, just local grown food, and I'm just a serial killer in peoples opinions, for telling them to ride bicycles for health and responsibility of our home planet.

Is your career satisfying or do you feel like you are just giving party wagons to the democrat yuppie hippie monkey rockstars?

Convince me to stop trying to save the world and tell me I should just go to college and build weapons, I just need to stop thinking of all tech as weapons and just see it as evolution.

Fancy carbon fiber bicycles are not weapons, they give you nice legs.

[J.P.M.]

I feel the anachronism in me, like I have old values of defending the planet from the cyborg wannabe monkeys we act like. Alot of times I think I should just be happy and go to college to help build spaceships.

I get depressed thinking about what will happen first, monkeys take over everything breed out of control overpopulate and make each other uncomfortable, or we figure space travel out.

I get very offended by everyone driving around outside and rather just tell everyone were ****ed and we should all stop trying and just have steak and beer and get in fistfights, instead of me seriously trying to figure out what gravity is or how to bend space by going to college and evolving.

If I help build spaceships they will first be used by pioneers, but then the billionaires will want to have sex and drink champagne on them so they can feel really good above everyone else.

Is this the results from your careers in engineering? Or am I blind and making things up in my head?

I think you may need to take a deep breath and have your meds adjusted.

[copymepls]

I feel the anachronism in me, like I have old values of defending the planet from the cyborg wannabe monkeys we act like. Alot of times I think I should just be happy and go to college to help build spaceships.

I get depressed thinking about what will happen first, monkeys take over everything breed out of control overpopulate and make each other uncomfortable, or we figure space travel out.

I get very offended by everyone driving around outside and rather just tell everyone were ****ed and we should all stop trying and just have steak and beer and get in fistfights, instead of me seriously trying to figure out what gravity is or how to bend space by going to college and evolving.

If I help build spaceships they will first be used by pioneers, but then the billionaires will want to have sex and drink champagne on them so they can feel really good above everyone else.

Is this the results from your careers in engineering? Or am I blind and making things up in my head?

[J.P.M.]

In the OPs defence. This subforum is called "solar living" and his post directly hits the question "Is off-grid solar living green?" He just goes about it in a way we don't normally see here.

As for his Hippie neighbors, They sound more like "Yippie Idiots" to me. A Yuppie that needs all their toys that proclaims to be a hippie but doesn't have a clue as to what one actually is.

WWW

Understood.
I know more than my share of that ilk. Works for me.
Also, maybe the Forum should have another subforum about the serious shortage of valuable bandwidth we appear to be wasting.

[Wy_White_Wolf]

In the OPs defence. This subforum is called "solar living" and his post directly hits the question "Is off-grid solar living green?" He just goes about it in a way we don't normally see here.

As for his Hippie neighbors, They sound more like "Yippie Idiots" to me. A Yuppie that needs all their toys that proclaims to be a hippie but doesn't have a clue as to what one actually is.

WWW

[J.P.M.]

I forgot to add their in their late 20's 30's with 2 kids.

The point of my post is not to rag on people but to have conversation about teaching solar power truth.

I'm only 27 btw.

You appear to be something of an anachronism.

Also, I was apparently confused by your statement :"When I was young, I wanted to be an engineer".

When I was 27, I had not yet awakened to the possibilities of alternate energy. When I did, I changed careers. Trust me, you still have time.

When/if choose to do so, you may find that the truth about solar energy, such as it may exist in reality or only the mind, like most truth, is a slippery, sometimes vague concept and always subject to being "twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools", to quote Kipling.

Still, all that has little to do with the sign over the door.

[Sunking]

I don't get it am I the burnout or are my hippies the burnout?

Yes

[copymepls]

I forgot to add their in their late 20's 30's with 2 kids.

The point of my post is not to rag on people but to have conversation about teaching solar power truth.

I'm only 27 btw.

[copymepls]

I don't get it am I the burnout or are my hippies the burnout?

[J.P.M.]

I think this thread is a bit of a waste of valuable band width, seriously

FWIW, it might be worthy of a philosophical discussion if the sign over the door said "unrealistic '60's hippie burnout forum" instead of "Solar Panel Talk". But in that sense, it's no more a waste of bandwidth than any other off topic subject.

[DanKegel]

A waste of hot air?

[solar pete]

I think this thread is a bit of a waste of valuable band width, seriously

[DanKegel]

The solar installation you described is not typical.

I was providing info for the question you posed in your subject, "is solar green", rather than the one you were ranting about, "why are these crazy people doing crazy things".

[copymepls]

For what it's worth, http://www.solarscorecard.com/ rates solar
panel manufacturers on, among other things, whether they
comply with the European RoHS standard (e.g. are nearly lead-free).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restric...nces_Directive

(Note: RoHS doesn't exactly apply to solar panels, so there may
be some wiggle room there, but hopefully the scorecard people
are well aware of that.)

I mean the lead in the batteries. Is why I wanted my democrats to buy grid-tie with no batteries.

[DanKegel]

For what it's worth, http://www.solarscorecard.com/ rates solar
panel manufacturers on, among other things, whether they
comply with the European RoHS standard (e.g. are nearly lead-free).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restric...nces_Directive

(Note: RoHS doesn't exactly apply to solar panels, so there may
be some wiggle room there, but hopefully the scorecard people
are well aware of that.)