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To: AmericaUnited
How quickly or cheaply could you convert your existing house to “solar power”, where everything in your home is committed to the solar power grid system in your home?

How about your car? How do you plan to convert it?

I will guess you will rely on the ingenuity of “company”...how often do you take several thousand of YOUR dollars and INVEST in these companies? OK...so let me guess you will do all of the above...now the next questions become REAL fun. How about plastic for CDs, water bottles, package wrapping, patio chairs, many components on your vehicle that make it lighter to help conserve gasoline, what about THAT side of the oil equation? What substitute will we rely on? How about all chemicals that rely on some extract or by product of oil? Fertilizers? I am curious as to what your ideas are for the PRODUCTS we rely on besides the abstract "energy" issue everyone talks about.

118 posted on 04/13/2008 5:53:52 AM PDT by antivenom (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
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To: antivenom
How quickly or cheaply could you convert your existing house to “solar power”, where everything in your home is committed to the solar power grid system in your home?,/i>

Once again, you make the mistake (that I was trying to point out) of extrapolating today's technology 20 years into the future. Now as far as solar goes, there are some very promising developments in thin film solar cell technology that will bring the costs down to feasible, cost competitive levels.

This article is about oil being at $100+ till the year 2020. I say that is crap! Many experts feel that oil should be at about $70 according to the fundamentals. Let some of these new technologies kick in over the next 5 years and see what happens. Hint... The price is going down.

126 posted on 04/13/2008 4:08:02 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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Assume that the “?,/i>” worked above when reading... :)
127 posted on 04/13/2008 4:12:09 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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