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That thread is really tame. You have an incredibly tiny forum with very few threads, and the first critical comments in a short 12-post thread send you running to Slashdot for help? Wow. Go over and read some forums with a lot more posts and grow a thicker skin. Seriously.

... even though it was raining cats and dogs today. I'm still using it withou

Posting an $11.34 electric bill

$11.34 + this months payment on the loan covering the costs of installation + costs of maintenance and operation.

So he saved about $330/month. It cost him $36K (which really cost $50K, but let's say). So it'll take 109 months to get back the money, or 9 years, not adjusting for inflation and investment opportunity cost. Let's say that brings it up to 12 years. Not including maintenance and repairs. It might even need complete replacement at that point. At 50K, which is the real cost, we're talking more like 16-18 years.

That's still a bit too long an investment for this to be really practical. Prices need to come down to about a four year payoff before I'd be really interested.

On another subject, I'm kind of glad to see someone who actually uses more electricity than I do. :)

So small, light and snug (from the picture), that when you get knicked by a Toyota on the autobahn, it can substitute as your coffin too! Now THAT's eco-friendly.

Really, it would have been either party, and any person in office that would have fought this.

They are politicians, what do you expect?

MySQL has people who are responsible for *designing* it? I'm shocked, Shocked.

Ah the new religion,
Now combining the sudo sceince of global warming with a little good old fashion scapegoating.

Speaking as a 5'8" guy weighing in at around 135 pounds, this sounds alful facist to me. Nobody would call me fat but replace global warmin with economic struggles and fat people with jew and our intelectual elite sound pretty much like Hitler did in the the late 1920s.

Can we get back to real science before we completely destroy the world pretty please?