Where our country needs to go...

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:19 am

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... tml?page=1

Neat article, neat setup.

araby · Post by **araby** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:46 am

wow! that's very cool. and that's a lot of manure!!

Evermore · Post by **Evermore** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:26 am

i'd love to do this if for anything just to say FU to the local pwr conglomerate.

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:36 am

$35,000 and it doesn't generate a ton of watts, though. Hopefully the tech in the future will get better.

This is the direction we need to go. Houses off the grid and generating their own watts in a green way.

Evermore · Post by **Evermore** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:03 pm

something we agree on sir

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:44 pm

there's a big movement here to replace standard asphat shingles with solar panel style ones

we get a LOT of sunlight here, and the solar panels are actually way more efficient when they're cold

and we've cold in spades around here (it's -34 out right now, jeje)

one of the engineers I work with did it homebrew at his place, and he generates enough power to run his TV and his PC with just solar, so that's not bad(and he didn't spend more than $5k either)

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:03 pm

lyion wrote:$35,000 and it doesn't generate a ton of watts, though. Hopefully the tech in the future will get better.

This is the direction we need to go. Houses off the grid and generating their own watts in a green way.

Whatever, Hippie McStoner.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:38 pm

Tossica wrote:
lyion wrote:$35,000 and it doesn't generate a ton of watts, though. Hopefully the tech in the future will get better.

This is the direction we need to go. Houses off the grid and generating their own watts in a green way.

Whatever, Hippie McStoner.

HAHA

he's prolly roasting an indica bud right now

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:00 pm

Something bout you sayin that is makin me smile over here.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:09 pm

Most hippies don't have probable solutions more than feel-good bullshit.

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:11 pm

Harrison wrote:Most hippies don't have probable solutions more than feel-good bullshit.

Oh?

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:34 pm

I said most, not all.

Post by **Lueyen** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:21 pm

Evermore wrote:i'd love to do this if for anything just to say FU to the local pwr conglomerate.

A news story here was on a guy who did this and was selling power he didn't need to the electric company.

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:30 pm

Lueyen wrote:
Evermore wrote:i'd love to do this if for anything just to say FU to the local pwr conglomerate.

A news story here was on a guy who did this and was selling power he didn't need to the electric company.

Our coop will pay you the same way.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:31 pm

Tossica wrote:
Lueyen wrote:
Evermore wrote:i'd love to do this if for anything just to say FU to the local pwr conglomerate.

A news story here was on a guy who did this and was selling power he didn't need to the electric company.

Our coop will pay you the same way.

Yar, lots of Cooperative Electric Companies are doing that. Too bad they are rare and limited based upon geography =(