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    Lighting

    Talk to your architech, he would have the rules of thumb. Ask for a reflected ceiling plan. Other wise blindly blundering into a software package to solve your problems could become an ebarrassing failure. Otherwise do as I do, break out the manuals, 1stOM estimate the FC's, grab your pants and...
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    inconvenient truth- errors?

    Yeah, I Know, more of the ridiculous again. But if in fact large cold? blooded reptilian creatures roamed, well, pretty much the whole planet. The global temperature must have been well above what it is today. The question I wounder is what did these creatures do in the winter? Snakes and...
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    Solar Panel Power?

    Well, I guess the 1kW Bergy up on top of the 63’ stick helps a little too. The grid tie method has been sold as an energy efficiency program. That is the customer’s net bill is lower, but, yet is still a consumer of, and indentured to, the utilities authority to collect overhead, taxes, and...
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    inconvenient truth- errors?

    BTW my main array is 750W of used ARCO panels that were 5 years old, 18 years ago. civil person..? not man, I deduce female. Emissions are Emissions period - pollution. Just because these are colorless and odorless do not mean they are harmless. As for LC's links; I really do not personally...
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    Solar Panel Power?

    2500kwh for a 30 day average period? =~100kWh/day. That is a lot. If this is a home you can probably reduce this in half or less. 10 kW/ day is sufficient. Do not let these so called experts (that have not lived-off the grid, less a camping trip or two) fool you. (ie. Solar trackers are more...
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    inconvenient truth- errors?

    They claim that the surface of the earth is smoother than a ping pong ball, in relative terms. How could microscopic – nanoscopic activities possibly effect this? But yet, driving down to LA from the mountains there is a yellow-brown haze, static, unnatural, thick, and sickening. Acid rain...
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    inconvenient truth- errors?

    ................. That is, for-seeing their eminent demise......... they devised a scheme by which using implanted best rapidly evolving DNA in the most robust survivor types.. they could dominate again... When the programed "CO2-GW" conditions are right. With a lot of munchy crunchy food...
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    inconvenient truth- errors?

    maybe, just maybe. everybody is wrong. nobody is right. That is why we bias the data for our own objective. It helps form a consensus, get things mobilized, hopefully it is positive direction. Ever wonder what several well placed earth penetration nuclear bombs will do when ejaculated and...
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    Building Lighting as Drawn vs. as Installed

    I thought it had to do with the efficient use of copper. Running HNG(3), and SH,SR(2) in out switchbox to switch box? I would think would use more length. Length = Voltage Drop. Maybe less labor? Anyway, I now specify lighting control panels and the associated low voltage controls whenever possible.
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    Traveling to Hell an Back

    Try Caracas Venezuela, for instantance. Why, Why? I die young, to relieve the this torture.
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    nanotechnology?

    I do not think 0707's intent was to investigate car wax or MBE. That technology is about sponged out, sure incremental, but yet fairly primitive. What 0707 is inquiring about is stitching and sewing combinations of nanoscopic elements into a functioning machine. Well, granted, car wax, sures...
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    nanotechnology?

    Well, I became fascinated, long before, mems or microsoft. Some report of a crashed UFO in russia that had some sort of ceramic skin with nanoscopic or at least microscopic golden filaments embedded inside. The scientist could not make sense of it or what the purpose of these were used for...
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    nanotechnology?

    I do not want to bring up GW again, no not George Washington. But GM, and again that thing ... Chernobyl, It happens, deal with it. Nobel, that is a prize, yes? For what?
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    nanotechnology?

    Will a billion microscopic flapping wings propel a 747? I doubt it. Will engineers try and make it work? I hope so.

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