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PANELS GOT IN
British comedian Marcus Brigstocke looks east in his quest for clean solar living:
We have solar panels, and are having photovoltaic panels fitted as soon as we can get hold of them, but the demand is very high ...
I am getting my panels in from a Chinese plant, the only one in the world with a really solid eco-record for making them.
Yep; those Chinese panel plants sure do have a solid eco-record. The Chinese also have a solid eco-record when it comes to cars.
(Via DB)
Hmp! Looks like I’d better not be busting on anybody else’s spelling problems for the rest of the evening.
Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 11 at 09:57 PM • permalinkBBC4 satire show host has a carbon footprint from three extra feet.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 11 at 10:11 PM • permalinkDo you notice how all these eco-wankers are indulging in a grand public exercise of auto-fellatio.
Note how he brags, not only of using (uneconomical and wasteful) solar panels, but is “preening” himself on his choice of
panels in from a Chinese plant, the only one in the world with a really solid eco-record
BTW I am an electronics engineer and do not dispute the value of solar panels ... in the appropriate place. We need efficiencies far higher than the ‘teens before they become economical for general use, even in Australia.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 03 11 at 10:26 PM • permalinkDo they even get enough sun in England these days to make solar panels worth the extra expense of installation? I thought weather in Blighty had been going back to the standard model of 90-percent-cloud-cover this past year.
Heck, even in sun-poisoned Florida solar panels are an extra, not the main source of power. (We have nuclear power plants for that.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 11 at 10:32 PM • permalinkWe rank 12th among 31 as of 2005 for nuke power, in case anyone is interested.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 11 at 10:37 PM • permalinkHa - Brigstocke says, “I hope we’ll be here for long enough to make it all pay.”
Well Marcus, if going by the unreported return on solar pv panels used in the Sydney Olympics is a rough guide, and I’d say it is because we have more energy from the sun in Sydney, then no, old chap, you’ll die of old age before you get back your 100,000 quid.
The unreported pay back on the Sydney Olympics solar panels (green Olympic village) caper is 89 years. No wonder it’s never been accurately reported. Actually, I’d guess a similar project in cloudy London would take longer to return the investment.
[The reality is they are just indulgences].
Oh hum…. hey Marcus you’ve got what you wanted!
#5: You are correct, Honorable Egg. The Pacific Abode of Celestial Oversupply would be honored to offer its humble services to this British comedian (“I am getting my panels in from a Chinese plant, the only one in the world with a really solid eco-record for making them.” Ha, ha! Most amusing, Mr. Brigstocke! You are certainly - how do you say? - one in a million).
To assist Mr. Brigstocke in improving the Qi, or - translated into your marvelous language - the “flow of energy” in his beautiful home, it is first and foremost of paramount importance to remove all profane and worldly obstacles to the free movement of harmonious spiritual forces. Think of your house, Mr. Brigstocke, as a riverbed, where the Qi should flow clear and pure, like a mountain stream, washing away the sorrows of temporal existence and lifting you to the seventh heaven. To accomplish this goal, you must first remove impediments to this stream. Now, in the same manner as silt and stones and the branches of trees collecting in a bend of the riverbed will impede the flow of water, just so will an excess of crass material wealth - in the form of cash, check or major credit card - inhibit the fluidity of soulful harmony in your home. It is the mission - the calling, if you will - of the Pacific Abode of Celestial Oversupply to relieve you of a sufficient quantity of mere lucre to facilitate the creation of spiritual balance in your home; which we calculate, based on the square footage and current tax assessment of your property, to be precisely $100,000. So very glad to be of service to you, Mr. Brigstocke (“really solid eco record”...Yes, that is - how do you say? - a “hot one”, Mr. Brigstocke; I must remember to tell this joke to the wretched members of my humble club).
When we moved to Michigan, we bought a house from a doctor who had installed solar panels on the roof. The intent was to partially heat the house with waterpipes installed above the ceiling, and to have extra hot water. Worked great, until our first March thaw, when the pipes in the ceiling, that had frozen, burst and the ceiling in the living room collapsed from the weight of the melting water. Took six weeks to get the ceiling repaired, and by that time, the solar panels were gone too.
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[The reality is they are just indulgences].
Smug inducing indulgences.
This reminds me of the Hollywood party that Iowahawk attended with the valet-parked Priuses: Conspicuous Non-Consumption.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 12 at 02:30 AM • permalink#9 Andrea
He, like so many eco-wankers, is probably counting on being able to drop his strides and, by clenching his buttocks, focus a glorious beam of purest sunlight onto the panels.
I will even bet that, when he imagines doing this, it seems to be accompanied by a chorus of angels.
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2008 03 12 at 06:18 AM • permalinkPaco—I tried setting up solar panels in my Zen garden to light my tai chi exercises but the damned glare melted my fiberglass Buddha…
Anybody need a shiny green boulder? No reasonable offers refused.
And we will not speak of the boiled koi.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 12 at 09:24 PM • permalink
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What’s the problem? He said “solid eco-record,” not a solid GOOD eco-record.
Then again, the problem could lay with Brogstocke’s inability to spell “squalid.”