had, actually, intended to write a long and involved post about Solar panels .. as distinct from the worship of Old King Coal ..but the thought processes (as well as a radio, two television sets, two computers, three keyboards, two telephones, a smidge of bundy and coke and a general impression that nobody has the slightest interest in what i write ) .. sort of reduced the impetus to a small glow. (have just purchased another one. Tiny thing, only $140.00 - 00.07 Amps on a heavily overcast cloudy day, to be precise .. but the pics are on the other computer .. drat)
[click the title .. the priesthood on mons vaticanus weren't all that far out .. everything just became a bit sidetracked by ignorance, polititians, finance and franchises, somewhere around 1,700 years ago]
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Me thinks that you have too many tv's and such buddy. I haven't turned one on for about a month and that was just to watch, um, never mind. :-)
My solar panel is a 50 amp one. In theory the price of things goes down over the years but solar panels sure haven't. I read about them being able to make cheaper ones but just try buying one.
Hey, that milky way link you left on my blog is a bad link back to my comments. Not that it surprises me that it is bigger than thought, the universe is always growing.
Take care, peaceful paths.
um, don't want to be pedantically "picky" Billy b, but doubt if you have - or could find - a 50 AMP Solar panel. The big one on the top of the van is a 60 WATT panel .. Big difference between Watts and Amps.
Davo
(sorry, can't be bothered signing back in again)(bloody 'ell .. bloody buggle won't allow underlines either .. why do i bother?)
"milky way"? OK, was a sort of joke and the link was supposed to lead to a "google search" page. Nothing lost .. heh.
[iplpert? .. fukkem]
Right, I stand corrected, it's a 50 watt panel, had a brain fart there. I've seen 75 watt ones advertised somewhere.
Davo,
Cheers to your unconquered sun! Should like to try out solar panels, but here we still enjoy the electric harness of big water:
The other rivers add power to you,
Yakima, Snake, and the Klickitat too,
Canadian northwest to the ocean so blue,
roll on, Columbia, roll on!
(Woody Guthrie)
"The other rivers add power to you,
Yakima, Snake, and the Klickitat too,
Canadian northwest to the ocean so blue, roll on, Columbia, roll on!"
I wouldn't depend on that long term.
bbc--
we shall see, it's much appreciated while it lasts.
davo--
on your last thought-provoker re: the aboriginals in the Kosovo comments:
'Fascinating--and the reason for it being the land itself. The same reason is generally given for the islanders, the islands being so finitely constrained. But there may be more to it. Is there any book you could recommend on the subject that would illuminate?'
"Is there any book you could recommend on the subject that would illuminate?.."
Ah, Marclord, tricky question, that one. Most of what I write just sort of pops into my head at the time of writing, and have to admit that I haven't read a book for 10-15 years or so. Do not "Profess" any sort of intellectual or educational "disciplines" or Doctorates, and my "Ph" teeters somewhere between acidic and mildly alkaline .. heh.
"the History of the Development of Human Culture - with emphasis on the distinctions and differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres" .. in 100 words or less, huh? Mmm. Will have to think about that one for a while .. but while yer waiting, I sort of begin to understand Northern Hemisphere cultural Development .. here
mix in a bit of Athenian thought and Roman Imperialism, add a dash of migrations here and there,then seriously wonder what the Australian Aborigines were up to (and why) for 40,000 years while all this was going on (and always bearing in mind that as well as no contact or "contamination" from the rest of the world until (more or less) 1770CE - there were NO large predatory animals to invent defenses against NOR any animals that could be domesticated.)
But now, to YOUR question .. have to admit that I really know very little about them (as a peoples) and will have to do a bit more background reading to see if I can make what I write sound as if I know something about it. Can't name any specific "books", off hand, but a couple of names come to mind .. C.P. Mountford and Edward Strehlow .. and there's always
this list to get me started .. (but note that Daisy Bates isn't on the list, wonder why).
(side note: my "cultural heritage" stretches back from 3 generation Australian through New Zealand to Lincolnshire - then, more than likely, to Saxony and Scandinavia .. so have no particular attachment or affinity to, or for, "Roman" (or anyone else's) Imperialism .. heh)
"the universe is always growing." Rubbish, Billy B. When, O When, are people going to get their minds wrapped around the concepts of "infinity" and "eternity"?? There is (was) no "beginning", nor "ending" (in cosmological terms). Are we forever destined to think in terms of "limits". Sort of .. This is my patch, that is your patch. My patch is bigger than your patch .. see, there's the boundary, step over it and you'll get shot .. OR My God started things "before" your God .. isn't that how it all works?? piffle.
davo,
thanks for the list, and for the thoughtful response. One must regard such a social structure as first-class mystery. In O'Brian's biography of Joseph Banks, there is little focus on the natives other than their blithe and wholesale persecution.
Well, good on ya for the ingenuity and for the independence. I should put a few pictures of what I have been doing lately to stick it to old king coal. My attack is positively paleolithic compared to what you are up to but good exercise.
Ah, Greensmile, i hardly think that my 60 Watt solar panel is going to change the course of human history .. but it gets me off the "grid". And by the way, have just popped over read you again .. oo, there must be some sort of political change in the wind over your way - you've become all brilliantly eloquent again.
Actually, am welcoming this set of "comments". has set what's left of my mind ticking .. about solar power (the Watts and Amps sort, not the "Ra vs. Lucifer" sort) .. and at some point will summon the energy (heh) to write something lucid and logical. (and Marclord .. harde ha .. "illuminate", have only just twigged to that one .. agéd mind must be missing a match or two .. heh.)(can somebody send me the phone number of a Redhead .. or two?)
In O'Brian's biography of Joseph Banks, there is little focus on the natives other than their blithe and wholesale persecution.
um was going to leave that one, Marclord, since I haven't actually read that book so to comment on what O'Brien wrote. but at this point, and in my ignorance, seem to have the impression that "blithe and wholesale persecution" came much later than Cook and Banks. Um, even under the impression that Captain Arthur Phillip (who set up the first "colony" at Botany Bay .. then at Sydney Harbour - January 1788) was under strict orders from Whitehall - and held the view himself - that the natives were to treated "with care and dignity". Which they were .. for a while.
However, you have me "annoyed" now (heh) .. so will have to .. um, check my facts.
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