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Old 07-09-2017, 05:43 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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If everyone east of the Mississippi turned down the AC one degree in the summer we would meet the Paris Agreement reduction goal.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:01 PM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Yes, it's so cheap, my former neighbor won't get a return on his investment (installing solar panels on his roof) for many years. But he sure feels good about himself!
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:02 PM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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If everyone east of the Mississippi turned down the AC one degree in the summer we would meet the Paris Agreement reduction goal.
I never could figure out why 68 is considered "comfortable" in summer while humans are most comfortable at 72.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:05 PM
 
Location: SE Asia
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I never could figure out why 68 is considered "comfortable" in summer while humans are most comfortable at 72.
Call me cheap but my house is set at 76 in the summer and 68 in the winter.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:39 PM
 
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They told us back in the '70s that we wouldn't be importing middle eastern oil anymore. Still waiting. They told us solar was the answer and that could be mostly true.

Solar is getting so cheap that even in the north it's useful. Sunlight is free, solar energy creates more jobs, consumers don't have to pay sky high oil heating bills. Finally, it's getting to be a better and better alternative no matter what either political party tells us.
To be fair: OPEC's power over the US is gone and, OPEC knows it. Saudi TRIED to wreck the fracking and, it blew up in Saudi's face.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:40 PM
 
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Call me cheap but my house is set at 76 in the summer and 68 in the winter.
Agreed. I keep my place about the same.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Raleigh
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What won't happen is us taxing ourselves and sending the revenues to countries on the low end of GNP and development.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:46 PM
 
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They told us back in the '70s that we wouldn't be importing middle eastern oil anymore. Still waiting. They told us solar was the answer and that could be mostly true.

Solar is getting so cheap that even in the north it's useful. Sunlight is free, solar energy creates more jobs, consumers don't have to pay sky high oil heating bills. Finally, it's getting to be a better and better alternative no matter what either political party tells us.
Solar is not the answer. It only replaces coal, somewhat. Are you going to take a transatlantic flight in a solar plane?
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:49 PM
 
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I never could figure out why 68 is considered "comfortable" in summer while humans are most comfortable at 72.
Who puts their a/c on 68? I don't do that, and I live on the Gulf Coast.
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Old 07-09-2017, 06:53 PM
 
Location: SE Asia
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Solar is not the answer. It only replaces coal, somewhat. Are you going to take a transatlantic flight in a solar plane?
Why does there have to be only 1 answer?
There is solar, Hydrogen,wind, the next 2 not truly green but fairly clean, CNG, Natural gas. Geo Thermal, Tidal generators.
The next fuel is out there, we need to invest and be the first, get in on the ground floor. Do what America does best. Inovate and invent.
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