chuck kottke

Here are some sites with images of solar awnings..green-rei-solar-skylight-pic.jpg (JPEG Image, 495x329 pixels) IX Energy - BIPV Integrating Solar

It's Goldman Snacks! And naturally they skipped December - it's all office parties anyhow.. They're on the Mayan Calendar now. And when you're kingdom is run by Mayan Gods, there's a little leeway during the harvest sacrifice month (unless you're part of the initial offering).:P It's complex machinery, this global system - I think Robert Reich has the pulse of the economy figured out, even if his timing has been off. But the leading indicator I go by is demand for raw materials; once everything else picks up, the proof is when there's demand for the commodities that are essential to the economy - and I haven't seen much rise in the metals market yet.. And the investment in health care has unseen dividends, because healthy people make a more vibrant economy down the road, plus having social safety nets is a good thing - yes, dump the global empire - we were never supposed to be one, and it never works in the end anyhow, so I'm all for that.

[/url]Transparent solar cells and modules Namaste Solar Electric - Photo Gallery - Commercial Awning Systems A couple of places with awnings & shades.. Gosh, there was a really good one somewhere - I'll look again..

Yeah, they're pretty & pretty cool, me thinks as well.. Somewhere there's an awning/portico made using transparent solar cells.. Home Power had it as a cover too - if I can get the image...

Transparent Solar - makes cool roofing for porches, porticoes, awnings, etc.:cool:lumiwall2.jpg (JPEG Image, 390x397 pixels)

Oh wow! That really is picturesque!!! :) Still, I must keep my nose to the grindstone here..:builder2: (too much scenery - it's just so tempting to wander off!:escaping:) Silicon - Purity can be less than chip-grade, which could lower costs in time. I like the panels that are being used as shades over porticoes. (time to drum up (or sand down) a picture...)

Oh ye, of little creativity.:dozey: You'll never be a great artist with that kind of an attitude, Rick!:laugh3: We discount the lowly bicycle, but really, Ford's first was called a "quadracycle" built in 1894, and bicycles really are green machines; Maybe the real problem is how marketing can get at the human psyche, and why it is human beings are fixated on large automobiles. It's a serious question - when tribes people in one African state were shown a National Geographic, they were immediately transfixed by an SUV ad, even though they had never (maybe never) seen an automobile! So, it is perhaps the 'together riding in a wagon' effect? The 'notice my peacock fan tail' effect? This matters, because if we're going to make progress, we out to understand what the impediments are, both physically (is the car comfy?), and psychologically (does the car do something to our psyches?).

yes we can... scratch our balls!

Enya!:)

Who is General Admission? I've heard of General Eisenhower, and General Schwarzkopf, and General Mayhem, but who is the General Admission, and what army does he command??:P (I just just couldn't resist..)

Enya - sounds like Onion. :P (well, the name Enya sounds like Onion, but Enya sounds like --- Danny O'Donnell:laugh3:) I think the Strawberry Swing sounds more like Swing, Swing, Down By the Green Green Grass .. 'kiss me' song I recall on the radio back a few years..

Welcome Bonnie - still figuring it out??:P

Then what is the demographic breakdown of a typical Coldplay concert??

Nah, it's all in how you see it Rick. Toads, a vital part of nature and an indicator group Sprockets, on bicycles, which are by their nature the ultimate "green auto-mobiles" And by historical anecdote, bicycle manufacturers were the first modern car makers.. Plus frogs and toads sing, So it all comes full circle..

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHB060NKYo]YouTube - Toad The Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean Video[/ame] Get tuned by nature..

Nooo! Save the Frogs!!:sick2: They're all getting the ick from climate change!!:( All the golden riches not one moment could replace the resplendent glory of one land race of frogs - the true gems of the planet.HowStuffWorks "How Frogs Work"

Enya - only time?[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFXI8888gc&feature=channel_page]YouTube - Enya- "Only Time"[/ame]

What's wrong with Hannah Montana Banana?:P

What?? Are we off topic here?? Look, planet earth is about to be fried like some zucchini dipped in beer batter and plopped into hot oil, and we're discussing evasive maneuvers?:laugh3:

snog? What's this??:thinking: For a clean 1 million dollars, would you jump out of an airplane at 3,000 feet of altitude, and try and land on a 100 square meter air cushion?? (no parachute; the air cushions used to make movies).

:furious3: (quite a chomper!:laugh3:)

...:beatnik:

So, are there 29 concrete columns in the stadium??:laugh3: (one has to wonder where the 29 'seats' are....)

:bulb::idea2:Realizing I can get rid of stuff - I don't need all this metal, so off to the scrap gods it goes.:hat2:

Welcome Laura:sunny:, make yourself at home here!:) I'm glad to hear of your fun time at the concert, and wish you many more!:daisy::dance: (and may a small shower help to make the flowers grow in Florida, so the butterflies have a place sip nectar.):flutterby::flutterby::flutterby: