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Solar Panel Costs
Just a rough cut this year. And I forgot to keep the links where I found each of these. I added one wind generator to compare.
Brand
Model
Type
Watts
Cost ($)
% Change
Cost/Watt ($)
Effic. (%)
Sunforce
44444
Wind
400
$499.95
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Story Idea: Your prophesy can't defeat my Legions
Fantasy setting ( Read more... ) -
Story Idea: Good in the kitchen
A male cop. A bit on the young side but very good at what he does ( Read more... ) -
A Green Boat
All of these technologies exist, and they've probably all been used on sailboats. They also all have their limitations. I do wonder if anyone has tried them all on one sailboat.
Start with a sailboat designed for long distance cruising, or offshore passage-making as it's sometimes called.
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Story Idea 1: Breaking the Loop
I have a few ideas for stories that I've written down over the years. I'm not a writer and will never do anything with them so I thought I'd post them. They are all copyright but distributed using the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States license. If, by some remote chance, someone actually wants to use one of these for ( Read more... ) -
Apple and Battery Prizes
I was going to post this as a comment on this article but it really doesn't belong there other than the fact that the article mentions that Apple Inc. now has $28B dollars in the bank ( Read more... ) -
Solar Panel Costs
This is my third year posting retail solar panel prices. Here are the first post and second.
Overall averages, by year which probably doesn't mean much since the number of panels from each manufacturer has changed so much.
2006$4.65/watt
2007$5.33/watt
2008$5.24/watt
Brand
Model
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Saturn Woes
On Saturday September 8th Cathy and I were returning to San Diego from a family visit in Colorado. On Interstate 40 about twenty miles east of Holbrook Arizona, while traveling at about 75 miles per hour, our car just died. The engine quit with no warning and we had to pull off the side of the road. We called AAA who dispatched a tow truck, which ( Read more... ) -
Solar Panel Cost update
This is a follow-up to my previous post. All panels that are still available have gone up in price. The cheapest panel I could find as of June 4, 2007 is still more expensive per watt than the all of the panels I found as of June 10, 2006.
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Blue Origin
A couple of days ago Jeff Bezos announced details and video about about the first flight of their new rocket. It sounds like it's a prototype of a sub-orbital tourist rocket. Ho, hum, been there done that. Right ( Read more... )