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North Dakota, for instance, has an average of about .09 a kWh for power, and due to long, harsh winters with lots of snow the panels are inefficient for months on end. From a cost only perspective, solar really isn't logical.
Hawaii, on the other hand, has an average cost of about .33 kWh and has very few days with poor weather. A solar system is crazy logical. On a purchase it can pay for itself in a just a couple years and on a lease immediately lowers the end users bill.
CA is much closer to HI than ND when it comes to solar. Not justifying what the kooks at CARB are suggesting, but there are lots of variables in play here.
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Edit: I'm sorry guys, should have let this die the death it deserves.
*no that's not mine, I can park a little better. But check the width of that thing, even parked like a total fucking moran it looks like he's still between the lines. Try that with a new Tacoma
How did that bike get here? Diesel burning ship / diesel burning UPS truck that drove on the roads your taxes helped pay for.
Every truck that drove a worker to the jobsite to build the bicycle shop or retailer that sold you the bike... gas/diesel, paved roads.
Do you buy food? How does it get to you? Perhaps by the roads that you pay taxes on?
Look around at every item in your precious snob den / home work office. How did they get there? Roads you helped pay taxes on.
Most thankful people you won't meet: co-workers in an office that don't have to put up with you on a daily basis.
Others look around and go 'things can be better'
Scientists and technology expertas are making it better. Just think where technology has come in the last 20 years... How many letter do people send across the country? Not many, but I bet that their were people like you in the 1980s and thought 'this is how it is, nothing can change'
Global Warming causes Climate Change.
Its a pretty basic concept, but in the infowars era education seems to be a thing of the past
Just a couple pictures of the many more to come millions of power sucking server farms, back up diesel generators, and giant air conditioning systems to try and keep all that modern green technology nice and cool.
They call it The Cloud. Out of site out of mind.
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Rich burn natural gas engines have similar load acceptance as a diesel. Can go from dead to full rpm/load in 10 seconds (Microsoft and Apple requirements..)
I keep getting involved in other projects and the bikes get put off. If Newman would let go of one of those C&J frames he has I might get re motivated.
How about an 86 Schwinn 14" BMX. Bought in new for my 3 year old daughter and hung it in the garage when she was done. I took it down last October and rebuilt it with some cool peices for my 3 yr old Grandson.
I think I posted a picture I found at my parents house of racing my xr there but that one was stock.
That thread was full of cool stuff.
So generating clean energy to power them and decentralising power generation to many more smaller clean power stations is key to clean air. Regardless of people’s beliefs in climate change, air position is bad for the people that breath it... EVs are a pretty important way to clean up the American air which is a direct health hazard to the American people, the majority of which live in cities
Sorry to stoop down to where it makes sense to you.
Good luck to us all with CARB.
That's quite an understatement.
I guess my point is that while a lot of people think that Switching to EVs, banning plastic straws, and bringing your own environmentally friendly bags made with petroleum by products to the store is the answer to preventing a scorched earth climate melt down. There seems to be complete ignorance toward all the so called technological advancementioned happening that demands massive power comsumption and environmental destruction.
Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and thousands of other Company's claim to be green clean energy Companies. In fact they are likely the largest polluters on the planet. And when we by and use their products and service so are we. People shame the guy with the dirt bike or the 68 chevy truck but not the guy sitting at home in the air conditioned house all day writing blogs and playing video games on the big screen TV that are connected through one of those giant servers.
The carbon footprint and environmental damage caused between this thread and the James Stewart retirement thread is probably worse than the damage I'm about to cause driving my 12 mi per gallon truck down the street to get a $1.50 cup of Joe in a disposable cup made with petroleum products that will probably cost $9.00 once we stop drilling oil.
I really don't know. But, I know there are a lot of moving parts and potential unintended consequences. And things are not as simple as solar panels, windmills, and battery storage.
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