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  • #16
    Re: IMF to sell 104 tons of GOLD

    Wood heats my house HOT. For $360 here on Vancouver Island, I get a dump-truckload of chopped wood delivered. That load heats my house for one year or more HOT--- like 75F hot.

    I have a ceiling fan to blow the heat around my house, efficiently. The ceiling fan costs only a few pennies per day to run. The house gets uniformly hot and without drafts.

    I think wood is a terrible solution, but it is infinitely better than solar power.

    The best solution is atomic energy and 1cent per kwh for baseboard heating and all home energy needs. But we don't have that. The eco-frauds wouldn't allow the easy and cheap way out for people. Life is never easy, especially in British Columbia now-a-days where the eco-idiots set the agenda.

    Some of the negatives for wood are slivers, wetness, weight, fire and explosion hazard, hornets, storage, labour, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, soot, smoke, filth, cutting trees somewhere, costs of parafin and matches, cleaning the fireplace or wood stove, cuts, spiders, costs of chimney sweeps, making kindling wood, the ordeal to cold start the wood stove, the risk of being burned, etc..... Burning wood is a terrible solution that only now makes sense because of what the eco-frauds have forced people to do.

    As for solar power, there is almost no sun on Vancouver Island. The sun is too low in the sky most of the year. The days are too short in winter. Trees cover up the sun if the sun ever does come out. Humidity absorbs the radiation from the sun and keeps it from shining down.

    Then we have other issues like the cost of solar power solutions, the life of solar power solutions, the installation of solar roofs, the special needs of solar solutions, moss, dirt, fading, scratching, branches, leaf fall, ice storms, hail, snow, etc.
    Last edited by Starving Steve; February 14, 2009, 12:34 AM.

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    • #17
      Re: IMF to sell 104 tons of GOLD

      First off, Americans need to realize that they have become a huge complex imperial power, then you can start to understand why there is no longer capitalism in the USA.

      Then you can understand why so Americans are fine with thier military running around the world killing people to "protect" America.

      It is very difficult for most Americans to accept. It takes a huge introspective look at one's own beliefs.

      Imperialism generates massive wealth and so Americans are trading capitalism for the easy life of an imperialist, not having to work much and getting "paid off" by the top imperialists running the show.

      The new American dream is to become an imperialist. You too can join simply by going to Columbia or Warton or Harvard and jumping onto the ladder - join the military - or just drink the kool-aid.

      What complicates matters is that the UK and other countries are meshed into this new global imperialism and so it is not easy to simply point the finger at America alone.

      I'm not sure "imperialism" is the correct term, I don't think a term has been invented for what is going on in human society today. I don't buy the New World Order conspiricy at all. Perhaps more like some new complex global class structure emerging....

      Now an optimist would say it is the breaking down of nation states, last gasp of old religions, last gasp of outdated labels such as capitalism, socialism, liberal, conservative, ....

      ...perhaps a new global enlightenment or a new dark age ... fire or ice ...

      I think it is better to embrace the global change and go full steam into the unknown rather then hold onto the old ideas.

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      • #18
        Re: IMF to sell 104 tons of GOLD

        Originally posted by Starving Steve View Post
        Wood heats my house HOT. For $360 here on Vancouver Island, I get a dump-truckload of chopped wood delivered. That load heats my house for one year or more HOT--- like 75F hot.
        Yeah, no kidding. And what were they thinking with all that genome research when it cost a billion dollars just to run down on persons genetic structure. F*cking potheads!

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        • #19
          Re: IMF to sell 104 tons of GOLD

          Originally posted by Starving Steve View Post
          Wood heats my house HOT. For $360 here on Vancouver Island, I get a dump-truckload of chopped wood delivered. That load heats my house for one year or more HOT--- like 75F hot...
          Originally posted by blazespinnaker View Post
          Yeah, no kidding. And what were they thinking with all that genome research when it cost a billion dollars just to run down on persons genetic structure. F*cking potheads!
          Bet the truck that delivers it doesn't run on wood...

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          • #20
            Re: IMF to sell 104 tons of GOLD

            Originally posted by GRG55 View Post
            Bet the truck that delivers it doesn't run on wood...
            But that is the point: The truck runs on diesel from oil. The oil has to be found and pumped or else imported. Not only that but the wood emits a CO and CO2 footprint bigger than an elephant's rear-end. And that emission from my wood stove is every day for ten months of the year.

            Meanwhile, the eco-frauds celebrate the wood-burning in my woodstove and in every wood stove everywhere as an environmental victory over "centralized power generation", against BC Hydro Corporation, and against atomic energy and hydro-electric power.

            And it is a double-whammy that needs to be spoken of: the trees which use carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide get cut-down whilst the carbon gets emitted from my stove. Why do you think I call them, eco-frauds?
            Last edited by Starving Steve; February 14, 2009, 08:07 PM.

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            • #21
              Re: IMF to sell 104 tons of GOLD

              PV (photovoltaic) solar panels, over their lifetime of ~20 years, produce about the same amount of energy that it took to make the panel in the first place.

              PV panels don't generate, they store the potential in a transportable form for use in remote areas, or when the main grid is down.

              At a cost of $5/kW, they have a long way to go before they are economical at todays subsidized electrical cost of $0.15/kW-hr.

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