The Experiment

Jeanie

gue_barium wrote:

I love the idea of solar energy, including wind. But, since I don't own property, I dont' have any way to implement it. It's been brought up at a meeting at work, and the owners like the idea, but it's a wait and see thing.

Jeanie wrote:

Do you guys have Green Energy there gue? Like you can sign up to the electrical company for energy supplied by green sources or they'll plant trees or something? Don't I sound well informed? :rolleyes: But it's something like that. I'll see if I can find a link later and post it for you.

Here's a link I found for Australia gue all about Green Energy. I'm sure there will be something similar in the US for people that aren't able to afford or use solar panels.

http://www.acfonline.org.au/articles/news.asp?news_id=1020

catefrances

onelongsong wrote:

i guess an idiot would find it offensive but if you're not an idiot; you'd know it didn't concern you.
also; there are passive solar measures you can use even in apartments. like hot air collectors. you can build/buy one and slip it into a window without tools for the winter. so there's something everyone can do. i guess if the conversation went in an intelligent direction instead of a hateful one; we would have covered that already.

i don't have to be black to find nigger offensive.

come on allen, your tone started it off on a bad footing. everyone else responded to that, even me.

lucylespian

INtelligent poeple don't make assumptions.

I've always been curious bout just how environmentally friendly the manufacture of solar panels is. I strongly suspect it is not.

Any offers of info ???

sponger

onelongsong wrote:

that happened on one board. this board had the least responses showing that people here don't care about their fellow man. they have no concern for future generations and IMO; will continue to rape the earth until it has no more to give. people here are all talk but have no desire to learn alternatives to our wasteful lifestyles.
i'm one of 20 people gathering data and the results should be published next month.

I'm willing to bet that with all of your education in solar technology, you never once took a college-level statistics course. There's just no way anyone with any bit of fundamental knowledge of stats could jump to the ridiculously near-sighted and hopelessly one-sided conclusion that you reached in the above statement. I haven't read all 10 pages of this thread, but if anyone on this board has any shred of common sense, I would think that the point I'm making in this post has been thoroughly covered at least 10 times over.

soulsinging

onelongsong wrote:

this board; and a few others; were part of an experiment to see how much people cared about global warming; alternative energy; and the future of mankind.
i started a thread about solar energy and i was chosen because i've used solar energy for over 30 years; becoming 100% solar early 2006.
an intelligent person would assume that people would have questions about solar energy and it's use; and how they could impliment solar energy into their current lives. especially from someone with so much experience in the field. that happened on one board. this board had the least responses showing that people here don't care about their fellow man. they have no concern for future generations and IMO; will continue to rape the earth until it has no more to give. people here are all talk but have no desire to learn alternatives to our wasteful lifestyles.
i'm one of 20 people gathering data and the results should be published next month.

:rolleyes:

i'll believe it when i see the article linked on here or someone hands me a published copy. until then, i suspect this is yet another of your tall tales.

ps. no, i dont care about alternative energy. im in school, renting an apartment i do not own and am not authorized to make changes to. so i can't do a godamn thing about it right now. even if i could, i don't have the capital to spend on a bunch of new technology changes to a building i will be leaving in 2 years.

so i guess that makes me a wasteful, careless, rapist.

Cosmo

Again...
Has anyone else been able to connect to http://www.ag.com and get to some place other than American Greetings?
I really DO want to verify and validate the statistics used in this experiment. I want to verify the number of responses in those other sites to validate whether or not this set of users really doesn't give a shit about their fellow man.
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I'm checking the A&E Message Board... but, really don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for other than discussions of the use of Solar Power in place of conventional sources.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Couple links my Israeli friend sent me...thought I'd share

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1185379029251&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/890970.html

Rats of Multa

perhaps your experimental data is flawed in a sense where folks were not disinterested in solar-energy as a progressive concept, but instead were in agreement too unanimously about the benefits and plausibility of alternative energy forms to go forth and produce diligent, lengthy commentaries about such notions,....?

maybe not, i dont really care much about your study either way. the fact is i havent posted in awhile and i just felt like screaming HELLO! to the persons i used to talk and debate with,....

i hope everyone is feeling great today!!

-t.

Cosmo

Again...
I went through the A&E site... which is Art And Entertainment Network. If we are comparing the Pearl Jam Moving Train respondants to the 'The Two Coreys' members... then, my finding would be that we fucking ROCK. Because, seriously... who gives a fuck about Corey Whatizface?
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Please... direct me to the message forums that places our (Pearl Jam Moving Train) messages board amongst the worst of the 'Don't Give a Shit About Anyone But Themselves' catagory... that is, unless the 'Gene Simmons: Family Jewels' folks put us to shame.