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GreaterNYCDude says

Whatever energy makes it through the "slats" (the white gaps) is all but lost to the environment. Plus the black "cells don't have much surface area and in solar eltric lanles its all about surface area. W/m2 and all that good stuff.

It's the fact it's not entirely black.

These are TUBES of solar cells. The goofy thinking is that they can capture photons at any angle. ENGINEERS WORKED ON THIS.

So, and because they are TUBES, they are hard to manufacture, and the there's more silicon used than what would be used if it was just a flat panel.

This was called "a scam" by many people, they got 1/2 billion in funding from the Obozo administration.

Yeah, and I think solar water heating is under-rated. Anybody living in the country should have a large tank of water, and some solar heaters. The only problem would be draining it when winter hit. Free hot water through all of summer.

richwicks says

Haven't you ever noticed that EVERY SINGLE MASS SHOOTER was previously known by the FIB before the shooting?

How did this guy pass a background check in order to buy a gun legally?

The FIB CREATES these shootings. I know that sounds crazy, until you realize EVERY ONE OF THESE people were known by the FIB before it happened. You saw what happened in the Whitmer kidnapping case. You witnessed Ray Epps encouraging people to go break into the Capital, you saw police letting them in.

Do I mean the government encourages and sets it up such that innocent people can be killed to further a political agenda?

Quoted for Troof.

How many times do we need to go through this - "Racist/Right Wing/etc." shooter spawns a media and political shitstorm, only to find, in the end that:

The FBI/CIA/Deepstate needed a patsy to further advance the deep state political agenda.

@richwicks has far more patience than I do to confront the zombies/brainwashed of the deep state. I hope only that it is not just our generation that sees the evil for what it is. Who will carry the torch once Gen X is sidelined?

The only problem would be draining it when winter hit. Free hot water through all of summer.

Glycol and a plate and frame loquid : liquid heat exchanger. Some efficiency losses, but you never have to drain and / or worry about freeing.

stereotomy says

@richwicks has far more patience than I do to confront the zombies/brainwashed of the deep state. I hope only that it is not just our generation that sees the evil for what it is. Who will carry the torch once Gen X is sidelined?

First of all, the the brainwashed are potential allies. They just don't understand what the "Big Lie" is, and how it works. Tell an ENORMOUS lie and people react with "well, they wouldn't say that if they were lying!" - like lying about mass shootings, terrorist attacks, weapons of mass destruction, Assad gassing his own people, Trump being in league with Putin. When they are caught in the lie, it has to be a mistake, and even when they are caught, people won't listen to the information.

Second, the boomer generation is mostly impossible to reach. X is easier, Y is easier, and so it goes. I know people think "oh this next generation is a bunch of brainwashed zombies" - well who wasn't at 20? Counter culture today is "conservative" and not Bush Neocon conservative, Ron Paul, Ludwig von Mises, Donald Trump "conservative".

GreaterNYCDude says

The only problem would be draining it when winter hit. Free hot water through all of summer.

Glycol and a plate and frame loquid : liquid heat exchanger. Some efficiency losses, but you never have to drain and / or worry about freeing.

As long as the water tank is inside your house. I think it's better to have it outside, because as it cools even through good insulation, it warms your home up during the summer, you don't want that.

I'd say just drain it.

GreaterNYCDude says

As a professor of engineering with a specialty in thermodynamics, I've seen many concepts that never should have been funded; they were doomed from the start.

Cannot cycle is an ideal heat engine. It's sets the ceiling for the maximum possible efficiency of a system. Second law being what it is, there is always an entropy tax to be paid. From friction to heat loss to system inefficiency no system is ideal, however some processes approach it reasonably well.

Engineering improvements, mostly in material innovations, have allowed for most of these gains, but at the end of the day you can't violate the laws of thermodynamics. You can't extract more energy than you put in, and some is always lost to the environment. It's just the way the universe works.

As an aside, this is why they won't let you patent a perpetual motion machine.

They do a similar thing in NorCal: dam with a forebay. At peak times in the day, when the utilities can sell for the HIGHEST PRICE, water is let thru the dam into the lower level forebay, powering hydro turbines. At night, water is pumped (with CHEAP low demand time electricity) from the forebay back up into the dam's lake. So power is surely lost, but profit is made.

Nuke plants would fix all this crazy shit.

richwicks says

the boomer generation is mostly impossible to reach. X is easier, Y is easier, and so it goes. I know people think "oh this next generation is a bunch of brainwashed zombies" - well who wasn't at 20? Counter culture today is "conservative" and not Bush Neocon conservative, Ron Paul, Ludwig von Mises, Donald Trump "conservative".

I guess that answers my question somewhat. Gen-X is so small, and we know that morality/politics/etc. is predominantly peer pressure. My greatest fear is that we x'rs will have nothing to teach that can be accepted by the next generation, since culture is effectively peer-presure. Gen-y will roll over us like bison or lemmings, unless they are are as "special" as their boomer parents have claimed.

John Oliver had an interesting piece on how utilities make money building new plants, irrespective of the validity or need for said infrastructure.

https://youtu.be/C-YRSqaPtMg

Case in point the flop that was carbon sequestration. Another "green" idea gone horribly wrong.

My money is on them fracturing the salt and allowing water to seep in and contaminate the ground water, further adding to China's water woes.
Never underestimate people who can walk past shit on the street, and consider themselves a progressive species for tolerating it.

Hindooo cult hatred for minorities.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EIA0BqlSdD4

The answer to those mass-shooting incidents is Constitutional Carry! Regardless whether the shooters are genuine lone-wolf nutjobs or alphabet-soup plants, Constitutional Carry by a significant percentage of the population in all public places will quickly turn them away. We need Jury Nullification in cases of unconstitutional prosecution against gun owners..

If you don’t like how much CEOs are paid and think it doesn’t matter, put your money where your mouth is and only invest in companies where CEO pay is no more then 10x or whatever x your commie heart prefers.

That’s the beauty of capitalism, people can freely spend their money how they like.

What about all the companies blackstone invested in that didn’t IPO and they lost money on? Where’s the article about those?

stereotomy says

I guess that answers my question somewhat. Gen-X is so small, and we know that morality/politics/etc. is predominantly peer pressure. My greatest fear is that we x'rs will have nothing to teach that can be accepted by the next generation, since culture is effectively peer-presure. Gen-y will roll over us like bison or lemmings, unless they are are as "special" as their boomer parents have claimed.

I have no worry about this. Truth wins out. It can take time but it always does.

Our fucking government thinks people can be brainwashed forever, they are realizing this isn't true, this is why they are attacking the 1st amendment and trying to install a Ministry of Truth. The Internet was made to be a decentralized communication system. They will fail.

Remember the fun and excitement of finding a TOTALLY new site, which was unique and different? That's coming back, but not within Google or Duckduckgo. We'll build an underground of a sorts. We already have it the ScArY DARK WEB - it's just non indexed content. We'll make the next level completely opaque. The whole point of making this system was unfettered communication and by fucking god, we'll accomplish that.

I started on the net in 1989. I'm about 15 years ahead of most people, meaning, I had exposure to ideas and concepts long before the mainstream did, and I'm over it, I'm what a typical 35 year old will be when they are 50 now. I saw attempts at censorship in the 1990s. It will not be tolerated.

pudil says

If you don’t like how much CEOs are paid and think it doesn’t matter, put your money where your mouth is and only invest in companies where CEO pay is no more then 10x or whatever x your commie heart prefers.

That’s the beauty of capitalism, people can freely spend their money how they like.

This would work if companies didn't receive massive infusions of money from the government...

Do you think Twitter censors discourse because they "believe" in their bullshit, or they are paid to believe? Google used to be the best fucking search engine on the planet, but https://www.yandex.com/ which is Russian is better for political discourse AND technical information to me now. Who is paying them to make them irrelevant and push a political agenda?

IF social media companies made money by VIEWS and not from bribes, they would want as much discourse and fighting as possible - but they quell it. They remove users. In reality, Facebook would welcome KKK assholes and Antifa thugs equally - because that would cause more people to spend more time fighting and more views and more ads, but they don't.

I live and work here. I live in Silly Con Valley, I am TELLING you the truth, they are purchased by the government. They exist to push a political agenda, they don't make money selling ads. They make money by producing propaganda.

Good fucking LORD, believe me. It's an open secret here. These are arms of our own government.

Nobody believes the engineers that did this shit. Nobody believes us. It's so fucking frustrating.

You want to know what the real threat is? That racists will realize they shouldn't be racists, that bigots will realize they shouldn't be bigots, the warmongers will realize they shouldn't be warmongers, but they all have a similar enemy, and that's the people that continually claim racism is a problem, that bigotry is a problem and that we don't support war enough - our enemy is the government. Our enemy has always sought to divide us.

Here comes the anti-Musk/anti-Tesla propaganda via the Media.

Amazon.com has gotten 'dumber' too. That is, the algo is deliberately re-engineered to push people to Amazon's Chinese "Basics" and "Essentials" subcontractors. And, word is Amazon tracks sales of new products, then sends the best to CHYna subcontractors to build at lower cost, quality.

You'd think the greatest Retail Site(tm) would have long figured out how to search for clothes sizes like "34x30" and omit results where those were out of stock.

DooDahMan says

In the hours following a violent rampage in upstate New York in which a lone attacker killed 10 individuals and injured three others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place.

India has about 20 wedding massacres a year, where a pissed off family member or jilted woman, poisons the whole wedding party.
Every Muslim country has public stoning to death of women, let's not forget Israel with constant cafe bombings, they have quit reporting them, because the Jews are bad now.
Mexico has armed men roll up on a Cafeteria and shots everyone inside to get the Mayor or police chief, they hang rivals on over passes, and mail heads to the police to intimidator them.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fleeing-dysfunctional-america-blue-states/

Fleeing dysfunctional America
Blue states cannot stop migrants from escaping their corruption and crime

May 18, 2022

... Despite out-migrations, entrenched super-blue municipal machines wave the pirate flag of equity, stir grievances, and squeeze workers. They often neglect infrastructure to attend to depravity and tragedy that no government can fix. The beneficiaries of economic surplus and altruism are unaware there’s a macro piper to pay. But they vote for handouts, so their elected tribunes and appointed providers prevail in spite of reckless finance and unconscionable management. In some cities, police and court protection seems uncertain, in the hands of partisans who talk of restitution, dispossession, and decriminalization.

Public assumptions and entitlements originating in the expectant era of Eugene McCarthy and John Lindsay have proved wrong, and worse, destructive. Section 8, Medicaid, electronic benefit transfer, and federally inspired programs to “fight poverty” and fund “community action” are part of that legacy. ...

In affluent professional areas like Pasadena and Pacific Palisades that were homeless-free pre-Covid, criminals and homeless have arrived. They wander aimlessly on commercial avenues, stopping here and there to go through the trash. There is no point in complaining to authorities. ...

“When citizens lose trust in elected leaders, health authorities, the courts, the police, universities, and the integrity of elections,” Haidt says, the “shattering of all that was solid” redoubles popular effort to find residual expressions of kinship and consensus. The winners are places rich what Haidt has called “moral cohesion.”

The hunger for trust is provoking short- and long-haul migrations of people and capital. Try as it might, the coercive left cannot staunch flows of enterprise or rescind reserved local powers that curb its own power. The search for economic and civil security is animating America’s future. The flight from dysfunctional America shows no signs of slowing.

DooDahMan says

It is so nice not to have to log off to know exactly what immature childish nonsense has been posted by the commenter from Alameda County, CA who is utterly desperate for attention of any kind

Happy now ? You got some attention from me.

P.S. You forgot to whine about being on ignore

1) are you two in a fight?
2) what is the purpose of the fight?
3) does the outcome matter?
4) why don't you talk to one another?

https://tox.chat/

You can use that to yell at one another privately. You BOTH have to be online to transfer a message though. Your ID will be something like:

2779E73EE1BE4E85A52DDA1E0E0DE8006905250171725CD64BE0ED1C29DACC4C03491A64CDA5

That's MY id on it. You are free to scream at me, bait me, fuck with me on it - I think I'm basically impervious to it.

I can tell the author comes from a distorted limited shallow Liberal view of the world that CNN force fed up his asshole with a Social Justice optical hose.

How many religious people do you "REALLY" know, I want an honest answer, not some MSNBC narrative?

Saying Evangelicals are the base of the Republican party is like saying the Democrat party are the go to folks for positive Employment numbers, but unlike those mean ole nasty evangelical Republicans that don't want you to work. Ignoring the fact that evangelicals need people to work to give them their thides.

Hey toilet paper sniffer, You are back at it.

Your tribe in India are getting jailed for the dick and shit comparison. Hope you dont plan of going to India.




Here is the reference for your TP sniffer.

indc says

Hey toilet paper sniffer, You are back at it.

Your tribe in India are getting jailed for the dick and shit comparison. Hope you dont plan of going to India.

We know that hindooo land is lawless and jail people for no reason.
Bhartis will get rid of Hindoo cult and will refocus on health,jobs and environment and hate mongers brought to justice.

Educated Bhartis are getting tired of this Hindooo nonsense.

@indc Hindoo cult jailing Bhartis.
Let us see how long this terror last. May be there will be "Public showing of Dick" ban after this nonsense to free Bharti women from this public vulgar display and oppression from Hindooo cult.


https://theprint.in/india/du-professor-booked-for-post-on-gyanvapi-shivling-seeks-ak-56-licence-from-pm-after-threats/961564/
DU professor booked for post on Gyanvapi ‘Shivling’, seeks AK-56 licence from PM after ‘threats’

Most of the roads in US will also be claimed by Hindoo cult after finding rows of God's dicks.

Hindoo to claim China as their own after they found "God's dick" .

This is bullshit and you shouldn't talk bullshit. If you want to change minds, be serious, don't deceive. You do this all the goddamned time which is why I largely ignore you.

You want to change people's thinking, act like a person.

Here, let me suggest something - if you were the only Sikh I knew, I'd recoil from the next one I met. You're a bad Sikh. You are a poor example of who you claim to represent.

richwicks says

This is bullshit and you shouldn't talk bullshit. If you want to change minds, be serious, don't deceive. You do this all the goddamned time which is why I largely ignore you.

You want to change people's thinking, act like a person.

I like mocking Hindoo cult as thats what they deserve.
I have no love lost with cruel Hindooo nazis trampling on rights of all people to establish supremacy and treat others as untouchables while claiming cow to be mother.

You chose your own path.

FarmersWon says

You chose your own path

Look above, I was modifying my comment.

I think you're a very poor representative of who you claim to represent.

But you're free to do as you will, although what your stated purpose is at odds at what you're accomplishing. If you were the only Sikh I knew, I would consider you all bigots, racists, and lunatics. But you're not the only Sikh I know. I feel badly for the person interacting with you that knows you as the only representative of the religion and philosophy.

richwicks says

Here, let me suggest something - if you were the only Sikh I knew, I'd recoil from the next one I met. You're a bad Sikh. You are a poor example of who you claim to represent.

All Sikhs mock Hindoo cult as they trample on our rights to exist peacefully.
Do You need examples?

Sikhs have no enmity with common Bharti and respect them.. But Hindooo cult, We will always mock them.

richwicks says

But you're free to do as you will, although what your stated purpose is at odds at what you're accomplishing. If you were the only Sikh I knew, I would consider you all bigots, racists, and lunatics. But you're not the only Sikh I know. I feel badly for the person interacting with you that knows you as the only representative of the religion and philosophy.

I explained to you in past that telling the cruel emperor that you have no clothes is no bigotry.
You need some learning... All freedom fighters always mock tyrants and it works in long term.
Every passing minute world as a whole has more freedom... and we are on right path... Thanks to people who resist.

FarmersWon says

Educated Bhartis are getting tired of this Hindooo nonsense.

Dont worry TP sniffer, he will also get his comeuppance. People are keeping track of all these bastards. I think he will loose his job. He is a result of stupid british education of dravidian nation. They will die down

Here is an example for you. And we know source of your ideology.

https://newsroompost.com/india/tv-anchor-nagma-sheikh-fired-for-posting-venomous-remark-on-baba/5100564.html

FarmersWon says

All Sikhs mock Hindoo cult as they trample on our rights to exist peacefully.

No, they do not. This is a lie. I know this directly.

You are an extremely poor representative. So poor, I think you're actively working against Sikhs.

richwicks says

No, they do not. This is a lie. I know this directly.

You are an extremely poor representative. So poor, I think you're actively working against Sikhs.

(Bhartis are not Hindooo cult)
Yes they do.
Sikhs have natural allergy to tyrants...
How many examples you need?

https://twitter.com/Jo_Singh/status/1525915773411086336?cxt=HHwWgMCq9fWTkq0qAAAA

https://twitter.com/BadGa1Kiki/status/1526588762922156032?cxt=HHwWgICgwYiZxK8qAAAA

https://twitter.com/karynldp/status/1527385091877457920?cxt=HHwWgMCqycGprrIqAAAA

https://twitter.com/Nick95377890/status/1505748055261331458?cxt=HHwWhICysZz4vuUpAAAA

https://twitter.com/Grewal2P/status/1521276516897898501?cxt=HHwWioC-rdO71JwqAAAA

indc says

Dont worry TP sniffer, he will also get his comeuppance. People are keeping track of all these bastards. I think he will loose his job. He is a result of stupid british education of dravidian nation. They will die down

Here is an example for you. And we know source of your ideology.

https://newsroompost.com/india/tv-anchor-nagma-sheikh-fired-for-posting-venomous-remark-on-baba/5100564.html

Terror is all that Hindooo cult is left with.
.. Good news is that "terror" has short shelf life.

Good times for Bhartis will return soon as people focus back on things that matter not God's cement dick.

FarmersWon says

Terror is all that Hindooo cult is left with.
.. Good news is that "terror" has short shelf life.

Good times for Bhartis will return soon as people focus back on things that matter not God's cement dick.

I know right. Terror is all the Mcsikhi is left with. Good news is that "terror" has short shelf life.

Good times will come to India as soon as the McSikhi in Vancover, america, australia, europe and britian learn to respect instead of spreading terror.

indc says

I know right. Terror is all the Mcsikhi is left with. Good news is that "terror" has short shelf life.

Good times will come to India as soon as the McSikhi in Vancover, america, australia, europe and britian learn to respect instead of spreading terror.

Nope.
Terror is Hindooo cult.
You yourself said people should be jailed from "mocking the stone dick of God".. This is terror to oppress woman rights by dangling dick in their faces.

I see that all Sikhs are mocking as they should.
Hindooo cult use God's dick as tool to oppress women and minorities.
Real target is $1 a day Hindooo wager .. He must not rise. Sikhs should make him rise.
https://twitter.com/WhereIsMy_Food/status/1526806783712301056

So easy to defend against. This is why I store my FOB in the freezer.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kushh_synghh/status/1429024174048116739
Wtf @Snapchat
@snapchatsupport
. Golden Temple is a Sikh Temple/Gurudwara! Not A Hindu Temple! Fix this asap!
@Snapchat
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