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Looks like she's wearing some makeup, and she got here hair did. Or maybe some photoshopping. Buyer beware.

Keep them coming!

I wouldn't say that solar is completely out of the question. Some panels and a few grid tie inverters would at least slow the meter down. In addition, they just recently discovered how to "print" solar panels on to paper, which should soon massively drive down the cost of solar systems.

 

I'm thinking about building at tiny home, so I have been doing a lot of research on this stuff recently.

Please, share! I haven't looked into this in awhile, looks like I'm out of the loop.

I'll keep you posted as the wife and I and other family are in the process of doing both Solar and Wind Generators at our various property locations. I have 50 acres near Zainesville and between Athens and Cambridge our family has over 200 more. We're meeting in February to discuss the tax abatement and funding from Uncle Sam. Costs to build them are way down too.

Yes please do, I'm very interested if the costs have come down enough. Even if it's not a residential system I'm always interested in actual facts. Watch out, there's a metric shitton of marketing BS and propaganda out there from "green-energy" groups, and people trying to sell this stuff.

from what I understand from when I looked into wind up at my place, it has to deal with being converted down to DC for storage then converted back to AC for usage in the house and that is why it's not really worth it for residential use. I don't think it had anything to do with how much wind we get. As far as solar, I'm pretty sure they work even through cloud cover.

I remember the wind being a lot better the further northwest you get. Somewhere there was a nice map that showed the wind patterns and something about a glacial ridge, blah blah blah. There were some decent incentive programs for awhile which is what got me interested, but 10+ years to see something even resembling a return just doesn't work for me.

Yeah, doing it for a residence is a whole different ballgame than doing it for a business. I'm pretty sure my dad still has some of the literature and shit.

What? Not enough wind? You do realize that there's a HUGE windmill farm not more than an hour from us right? Ohio has a nearly a dozen huge farms from here to Toledo and the Indiana border. Just watch the one at Byers Mazda, it spins all the time.

Don't get me started on Byers Mazda.

I really seriously looked into buying a couple small windmills last year (in Union county), and after talking with two locals who bought them and reading around it would take longer than the service life of the windmill to pay it off. Total waste of money, unless someone gives it to you, you get a grant, or you're somewhere else. This is from real people, verifying their generation and consumption. Not BS marketing, agenda-pushing, grant-sucking lobbyists. If you have information to the contrary I would be very interested to discuss.

there's a simple fix for this increase in price....don't use electricity or make your own.

While that would make a nice statement, it is beyond impractical to accomplish this on a scale large enough to impact a company like AEP. We don't have good wind here, it's not sunny often enough, solar panels take forever to pay for themselves by which time they need replaced, gas/diesel generators aren't economically practical, the natural gas/coal underground is impractical for a homeowner to exploit, etc.

What do you suggest? Ammonia power? Methane trapping for the farmers? wood-burning power? Drastically cutting power usage?

trainwreck

:lolguy::lolguy::lolguy:

Nice

Yep, and installing new power lines and such everywhere isn't going to happen.

So the AEP trying to get my business isn't the asshole AEP? Interesting, thanks.

"Hey Rymer are you bringing a gun in case if bear/dogs/Hillbillys"

"Hey Rymer can I have some water I only brought 40oz"

"Hey Rymer can I sleep in your tent the woods are scary"

 

:lolguy:

Sounds like my wife.

I'm not carrying a gun.

Reason: They are too heavy.

 

This is why you carry 50lbs and I carry 25 when we hike. :fa:

Looks like someone just became a pack mule. :lolguy:

I was going to post something funny like a storm-trooper rifle, or a Halo gun with some witty remarks, but then I got lazy.

Get a good AK like a Saiga or Arsenal, OR a good AR like a BCM or Colt, learn the system, have spares, have ammo, practice a lot, get training.

AKs because everywhere else uses them, ARs because we use them, and they're both good common weapons systems.

Yeah notice they open a bag with a dead guy in it, then there is a tube being placed into the Dr's arm and blood is shown flowing through it.

That's what I get for dividing my attention. Thanks

They're rebooting the series? Jeez, what next- the remake of Star Wars episodes 1-3?

The part of this prologue that really gets me is the blood transfusion they are doing so when they show up to look at the wreckage there will be DNA from the Dr and they'll think he is dead?

Oh, is that what was going on? (I watched without sound)

That's some seriously hokey shit right there. Seriously? Gawd I hate fanboy movies.

srsly, plane full of special forces doesn't shoot back or the plane doesn't take evasive action? movies like this lose me real quick.

Yes, this.

Batman can die? Are you sure?

Stunts looked interesting, but a little too far out there in my opinion. Lol at the badass security soldiers just standing around, watching shit unfold. Typical hollywood "Stand there and wait for me to do some cool shit from 19 different camera angles." Was looking pretty cool though for a minute.

That fucker needs kicked the fuck out

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. He could be much, much worse. Especially for us obamacare-hating, gun-toting Ohioans.

Yum 930. Why on Earth would you want an integra when you have a nice sexy 911 turbo?

Why would you want to come back to Youngstown?

It will be fun to visit in 51 years after the massive boom-town has become abandoned and the only people left are flesh-eating radioactive zombies.

Er, wait that already happened? 51 years into the future

OMG it's a terrorist and they're flying bombs around! Scramble the F-16s!

Gimme.

Do you get double credential points if you actually know how to play guitar?

Few can make clean, sensical, crisp solos look as effortless as Eric Clapton. SRV stuff is fun even if he reuses riffs like crazy. Hendrix would be more fun to play if half his tunes didn't get all weird with reverse-phasing, weird effects and other drug-induced craziness.

And G&R does sound whiny to me too.