Common sense, energy Independence, sustainability, social reasons, political reasons, peace, practicality, professionally. Know some great people at EcoVillages. Met the Nearings who profoundly impacted my life. Produced a documentary on disconnecting from the elec co in 1986.
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It will work anywhere with a breaker-panel that can handle an additional breaker (sometimes requiring installing a double breaker to open up a slot. The only place it won't work is with the old fuse-boxes sometimes still found on homes constructed before the 60s.
Dennis,
I would like to go, we'll see how things progress, but I would really like to be there again.
Progress is good, we have a working vehicle, which we can now continue to enhance, whereas last year, the vehicle was being converted to electric when I was at the show.
In 2 weeks we will show it again at the SAE hybrid vehicle conf in San Diego. Just recently we were at the SEMA show in Las Vegas to get things started, and we are rolling along.
Thanks for reaching out.
Jim Stansbury
Physics Lab of Lake Havasu
Hello Dennis.
i am currently a union carpenter in Los Angeles CA. and found an increased interest in persuing alternative enrgy. I have taken all my required classes from the union to journey out for example blue print reading. I have also taken and passed fundamental to dc electricity at my community college. I have no clue, how i will get in the field but i have a great deal of ambition. my question to you is where do i start? what school should i go to? what courses should i take? what should i specialize in? etc.
thanks for your time.
your friend yan
Sorry... not a solar company. I've done a lot of work with traditional energy in the past (Oil and Gas, Nuclear), but at the moment I'm running an energy-centric vertical search company. So serving the needs of the energy industry rather than being in it directly for the moment.
Dennis,
We were able to go to the Merriman conference on Tues.
I thought it was quite impressive, and hope something comes of it.
Thanks for the heads up on that, I agree it was definitely worth attending.
Sorry I missed you if you were there.
What did you come away with?
Again thanks , hope to talk to you soon.
Jim
Hi Dennis! Just updated my blog. Based on another golf course conversation about green energy. Play more golf, learn more about energy. Check it out at www.HowleyGreenEnergy.com All the best. John
Hi Dennis. I responded to your last comment, but messed up and it shows only on my page. If it's not too much trouble, check out my page for the response. Thanks. John
Hi Dennis! Thanks for the feedback. I'm with you. Hope it is different this time. Not entirely convinced it will be. All of our clients make their decisions solely on whether efficiency and conservation make economic sense. In the corporate mind, that means pay-backs less than 36 months. Which means solar, wind and other forms of alternative energy are not yet acceptable to most clients without heavy government subsidies. And the economy is making it difficult for governments to find the money for subsidies. I just heard that NJ probably will not go forward with a municipal energy audit program because of lack of funds.
But you may be right about Wall Street. A lot of money is going into alternative energy. Hopefully, we'll have some technological breakthroughs in solar, wind, etc. soon. And hopefully the next administration will keep their eyes on the prize -- eliminating dependence on oil and finding alternatives that are neutral on the environment.
As for the relationship between PV instalations and what my company does, there really is no overlap. We make electrical distribution systems more efficient regardless of the source.
Hi Dennis
I hope your new venture goes well. We live in interesting times. The changes are fascinating. Are you learning rapidly enough to suit you? You might get some value from my teaching web site www.homeenergy.wikispaces.com. It links to the best solar web sites I have found. Here's a most interesting current link: www.americangreen.tv. It focuses on solar energy develpments in Western North Carolina. Let me know if you find some great web sites I should add as new links from the homeenergy site. Warmest regards, Paul
Dennis, Thanks for the info. Now to answer your ? , if you can wait, I would. We are building a PHEV for the Auto X Prize, and so I know the technology is out there if we can do it. Soon in the next year or 2, there will be a few PHEV's out there. For now actually the best out there are the Jetta TDi's, which run 42mpg combined routinely. Hope that helps. Jim
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I would like to go, we'll see how things progress, but I would really like to be there again.
Progress is good, we have a working vehicle, which we can now continue to enhance, whereas last year, the vehicle was being converted to electric when I was at the show.
In 2 weeks we will show it again at the SAE hybrid vehicle conf in San Diego. Just recently we were at the SEMA show in Las Vegas to get things started, and we are rolling along.
Thanks for reaching out.
Jim Stansbury
Physics Lab of Lake Havasu
i am currently a union carpenter in Los Angeles CA. and found an increased interest in persuing alternative enrgy. I have taken all my required classes from the union to journey out for example blue print reading. I have also taken and passed fundamental to dc electricity at my community college. I have no clue, how i will get in the field but i have a great deal of ambition. my question to you is where do i start? what school should i go to? what courses should i take? what should i specialize in? etc.
thanks for your time.
your friend yan
We were able to go to the Merriman conference on Tues.
I thought it was quite impressive, and hope something comes of it.
Thanks for the heads up on that, I agree it was definitely worth attending.
Sorry I missed you if you were there.
What did you come away with?
Again thanks , hope to talk to you soon.
Jim
But you may be right about Wall Street. A lot of money is going into alternative energy. Hopefully, we'll have some technological breakthroughs in solar, wind, etc. soon. And hopefully the next administration will keep their eyes on the prize -- eliminating dependence on oil and finding alternatives that are neutral on the environment.
As for the relationship between PV instalations and what my company does, there really is no overlap. We make electrical distribution systems more efficient regardless of the source.
I hope your new venture goes well. We live in interesting times. The changes are fascinating. Are you learning rapidly enough to suit you? You might get some value from my teaching web site www.homeenergy.wikispaces.com. It links to the best solar web sites I have found. Here's a most interesting current link: www.americangreen.tv. It focuses on solar energy develpments in Western North Carolina. Let me know if you find some great web sites I should add as new links from the homeenergy site. Warmest regards, Paul
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