When todays outmoded segments of the power grid cause brownouts during peak service hours, rooftop panels help relieve the problem and save the power companies lots of money...

the idea is to sell your excess electricity to the power company on sunny days when brown outs occur and consumption goes up... then at night you buy the juice from the grid, some months you may make a profit, but you have to pay for the installation and materials... Here in New Orleans the deal the city council made with Entergy mandates they hook up solar systems... The state however has met a set number, "allows an electric utility to reject applications from homeowners proposing to install solar once the overall percentage of electricity produced from solar in that utility exceeds 0.5%." and that number has been reached so outside new orleans you cannot hook into the grid and pay off your investment. Now you could hook up , use what you need and give the rest to the companies, but that would be socialistic and frowned upon...

Getting political on this issue gets to the point, ALEC, the group funded by the Koch brothers is behind a lot of these laws... http://www.democracynow.org/20...

raising the minimum wage up to $10.50 or higher has the added benefit of funding social security at a higher level at the same time many hardworking americans are set to retire... congress has borrowed against ssi funds every year to keep their budgets down and it has inhibited the growth of them. all our debts would be so much higher if we had not been screwed by congress this way...

Grass cloning giant Monsanto has announced plans to launch a new division to exploit quantum time travel in an attempt corner early grass' seed markets.

I still believe someone left the poisoned apple for Mr. Turing. I believe he was murdered by cia types and that he was framed on the suicide issue. This tagline is one I use on many online forums i use...

You may remember Edwards kicked off his campaign in New Orleans last month, promising not to forget us and to give us continual support.

He hasn't been seen in the city since...