I”m home for a few days, and your anecdote about your method of cutting trees has kept a smile on my face all day. I was wondering if you make up one of those squares, with 100 boxes in it, then go to the local bar, and have everyone place bets on day and hour the tree will fall?

Yeah, I was jesting when I asked you to come and help drop the Live Oaks, it will require young strong men with hooks and belts to drop them piece by piece. I am no stranger to a chainsaw and dropping trees, but I am also wise enough to know when something is beyond my expertise.

Oh course you are welcome to come visit me here if you make it south, as I can intuit that you have a vast wealth of knowledge crammed inside your cranium that I would love to exploit!

Richard

In general it’s not best to use solar panels for only one use. If that device isn’t using power and the sun is shining you’re losing electricity. Why not put the panels on a rack in the sunny part of your lot and run the power back to your house? Mine sit out in my yard.

While you’re doing that look into switching your pool pump to 240vac. That might save you some electricity.

Switching your house over to DC isn’t worth the effort or cost. I know a lot of people who are off the grid as I am. Some of them used to run their houses on DC back when inverters weren’t very good and expensive. Now no one uses DC.

Modern inverters and computer power bricks are pretty efficient. I wouldn’t worry about the loss.

I might help you drop those oaks, I’m probably coming to J’ville this winter. But first I need to drop an 80′ Douglas fir that has put on an extra 10′ – 15′ after I mounted my panels and now it’s blocking one rack of my panels in the winter.

My technique for dropping big trees is to cut them almost down, go inside, and wait for a big wind to finish the job. I’ve waited as long as two weeks. But I don’t have to worry about someone or their pet wandering into my drop zone. Don’t think you could get away with that in suburbia….

Also it looks as though a large part of the cost of solar is the inverter, and I wondering if it would be pratical to convert one’s home over to DC appliances, lights etc. It seems a waste to convert DC solar, to AC, then back again to charge your laptop, phone, etc.

I don’t have a 401k, in my case it is an IRA, and I knew you couldn’t use funds for installing solar. But, it seems like an idea that might be worth legislating, if the payback is near what this article purposes, then it might be better for Americans to use these accounts to install solar, then put the energy savings back to the account.

Now Bob, when do you want to come over and help me remove these 2 very mature Live Oaks on the south side of my house?

Then after a few years your solar system payments are done and you’re looking at decades of free power.

And all the time you’ve been making fixed amount payments your neighbors’ utility bills will have been climbing.

Stocks probably return a higher rate, but they don’t pay for themselves in the same way. And with solar you’ve locked in guaranteed returns, you don’t have the variability of the market.

But, no, you can’t use them for your 401k. Do both, pay for solar with your electricity savings and fund your retirement with other money. And then when you’re a senior you’ll have retirement money and no electricity bill.

When this Old World starts getting you down. From Pollution the cost of OIL,
Heating Fuel,The Fuel you put in your Vehicles, You Electric Bills from
cooling air conditioners and lights not to speak of the Evil. The TAX that all
Governments Federal, State, County and City put on everything they can thing of.
They are supposed to serve us. Not put a burden on its people. That they are
elected to serve all the people you, not their own Pocket Books.

The Wicked keep putting higher taxes on everything. Making it a Heavy
Burden on many that are already struggling just to put food on the table.
Too many Americans have lost their home to the tax collector or to foreclosures
from the unjust bankers greed. More are out of work and lost their homes then
in the GREAT DEPRESSION,in the last ten years. All Americans and many Nations
need good jobs and more of them. Not more TAXES.

There is a Industry that will employ workers and is growing by more then 50%
every year. There is a clear way for all up on the roof the Sun Light is free
fuel from GOD. Some wicked in Government have been backing Coal, Oil, Gas and
the Nuclear industries for too many years. These kickbacks to them were called
Subsidizing Industry Technology. Most all Wise Men and smart Economist and
Environmentalists call this padding their pockets and subsidizing back to the
Stone Age.

This might even been funny in the 1960’s. If it were a Fred Flintstones and
Barny Rubble Movie. About How to aggressively systematically work with the rich
to Pollute Ground Water quality to the point it is unsafe to drink or use.
So to they make a law you can only buy water from their pipe line. And to make
the air we breath full of Toxic Gases, Sulfur Dioxide and more Radioactive
and Acid Rain. Injuring all living things on Earth.

With Fred Flintstones to the Rescue. To help create a Healthier Environment.
For all Future Generations. By spotlighting Renewable Energy and Free Energy
like Wind and Solar. On his and his neighbor Barny Rubble’s roof. Even though
the greedy wicked would do everything to stop or slow them down.

Just imagine a dream that a 100 years ago one of the smartest man to ever
live had. A dream after working with Sun Light. That all on Earth would use
Free Energy Solar Energy.

That Dream also shared by a man that dreamed this over 2,250 years ago.
Both These men showed the world in their days. That this dream of Free Energy
Solar Energy World wide was very possible. Both of these two wise men had
first hand worked and researched their experiments for not just days, weeks
put for many years.

One of these men used chalk on Black Board the others board was a black
stone table or floor covered with white sand and used a stick. One of these
two Brilliant men had Kings from all most every Kingdom on Earth come to him
for advice.

The other went to almost every nation on Earth. Freely on his own dime
Teaching All that had ears to hear. He would win the Nobel Prize for doing so.
For his work on Solar Energy. Only after years of doing research and when most
Scientist on Earth would not take the nomination for the Nobel Prize in 1921 and knew
it clearly belonged to this Brilliant Scientist, this Brilliant scientist was then awarded it in
1922 for the 1921 year.

Now if this was just a Pretend TV Show or a Movie from a dream. This would
be a great Sci Fi Story Line. In the 1960’s or even better to day. Sci Fi story
Movie or dream No.

All that i Have told you did actually really happen. Albert Einstein won the
Nobel Prize for what? When Government leaders asked him to go on stage. To
address the Scientific Community and the World. About what he was given the
Nobel Prize for. When Albert Einstein Had done so. He addressed them with his
other accomplishments. For years most Governments did not have a ear for
Einstein’s Dream.

Archimedes around 250 B.C. was know most of the World over as a great
Mathematician. One of the first Scientist and Inventor of many things. Even
the first Laser Ray from the Sun’s Energy. Science Fiction is what you would
have though you were seeing if you could go back in time, it was real.To day
we call it The LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission. Back then it
was just called Amplification of the SUN, Archimedes Death Ray.

Thousand of years later it would be a Laser. That Albert Einstein help
make possible. That would unlock one of the first books on Earth.
The METHOD written by Archimedes. Then over more then 250 years later. When
well Faded was cut from a scroll and put into a book form, to be easier to
hide from the Romans by St. Paul. This book sold for over 2 million dollars.
In New york at Christie’s Auction House.

These two are at the top of the list of the World’s Greatest Scientists,
Viewed by Scientist around the World.

Sad that for the last 25 years or so of every teacher asked no matter what
Grade k through 16. 80% of them did not know Archimedes. Even sadder 90%
of them could not tell you what one of the most Brilliant Scientist to ever
live on Earth. Won the Nobel Prize for.

It was for the work Albert Einstein did to show the World it could get
Free Energy, Electric from the SUN. PHOTOVOLTAICS

You ask this question to any Military general 95% of them will get it right.
Even more surprising 99% of them will know more about Archimedes then most
Teachers on Earth. Generals know Energy is the key to Winning.

At almost one thousand to one Archimedes always won against what all knew was
impossible odds. Archimedes home town city of Syracuse was victorious against the
greatest Kingdoms Armies on earth many times. Syracuse once was one of the most
powerful cities in the World.

I can only ask you to please look into Solar Energy, Solar Power, Solar Panels
and Solar array on the internet under Images. To see and explore for your self
then you be the JURY.

More then 10 years ago the Internet became most of the World’s Universities
Learning Platform. A Modern Day Archimedes Resource Center.

The Solar Energy Industry in the year 2010 has leaped ahead farther and
faster then any other industry on Earth. The Solar Industry in the
United States of America alone, has grown by more then 50% in 2010 and it looks
like that number will go up even higher this year 2011.

The strong benefits of Solar Energy is Clear Clean Air viewed in major cities
as improving air quality. Clean Cities. By all that use there brain for good .
View it as protecting the environment and Freedom from OIL.

While the Federal Government has eased the Tax on Renewable Energy till the end
of this year 2011. Some cities in the states that these Legislators come from have
worked against these tax credits.

By doing so they are showing their true objectives. That they have stock in some power plants and do not want to lose all that Money they have been taking out of your pocket books for too many years. By taxing you on your Energy Bills. They want to Control Power and Tax Everything they can. Not let People be free to get their own power from the top of their own roofs.

By adding their own taxes to them. These wicked leaders think that this will take away the incentives to harvest the Free Energy from the Sun.

The Public ability and awareness for all on Earth to use the Natural Solar Energy, is Contributing to Production of Solar Energy Products. Making the Solar Energy Industry the fastest growing on Earth. A Wealth of Free Energy From The SUN.

The more the wicked try to slow the Solar Energy Industry down, it only Enhances
involvement and the efforts of the Good at Heart.

GOD Bless you for reading this.

The Lord’s little Helper
Paul Felix Schott

PS
through out History Many have tried to wipe the good from our history books.
Read the Bible Jesus will Bless you more then i can.

SolarWorld has been presenting a Einstein Award to personalities who have advanced the use of solar energy – and helped our Planet Earth.

We all need to tell all our Teachers and Leaders to use our Nation’s Energy more wisely and efficient. Start to Teach all our Young about Renewable Energy Solar, Wind, and so on.
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