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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/16/2008 3:15:58 PM
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falkore24
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My personal favorite type of lighting is fiber optic. No hot spots wasting lighting power and the heat can be removed from the space easily to save on the AC loading. You'd be surprised at the efficiency cost created by the hot spot that is emitted by incandescants an halogen bulbs. Fiber spreads the light evenly and you can light a lot more than you'd be able to with the bulb that powers the system. I think you can get these systems up to 2000W Metal Halide powered ..... maybe even dual 2000's. Obviously this large of a system can't be used residentially, but a few smaller ones could. A downside is that HID lighting can't be dimmed; the output can be, but there is no energy savings by doing that. They do make incandescant versions that can be dimmed, but the Halide ones are more common.
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/16/2008 3:24:34 PM
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For anyone who is intrigued by the notion of a mercury-boiler power plant, take a look here:
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/mercury/mercury.htm
The plant I referred to is the Schiller Generating Station, in Newington (Portsmouth), New Hampshire. It is mentioned about half way down the page, and there are some pretty good photos, too.
I worked a short distance away at the Newington Generating Station - a 420 mW, oil-fired plant.
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/17/2008 6:18:33 AM
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Bring back tallow lights ! or Eat more carrots ! Just two slogans you could use to march on the White House. [You do know that we burnt it down, dont you. Why did you rebuild it ?]
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/17/2008 9:32:47 AM
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White House. [You do know that we burnt it down, dont you. Why did you rebuild it ?]
Because it's an elegant jail to keep all of the useless people contained.
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/17/2008 9:47:08 AM
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Absolutely true ! Try, try, try again. You must strike lucky sometime. When the next election for prez ?
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/17/2008 1:22:58 PM
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actually it was burned down twice.
next election is this november, but the primaries are going on now.
whens the next election for queen? :p
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/18/2008 1:25:19 AM
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actually it was burned down twice.
next election is this november, but the primaries are going on now.
whens the next election for queen? :p
Think about this carefully. You have a politician as Head of State with an awful lot of power and no checks on sanity or behaviour. We have a constitutional monarch with no power at all cos we took it all away centuries ago but she has big time influence and if we were to fight the Civil War all over again, most little people like me would support the Queen rather than scum-bag politicos.
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/18/2008 9:45:13 AM
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you do realize the very fundamentals of out government were designed specifically to incorporate as many checks and balances as possible? there are dozens. Problem is that things like the "patriot act" interfere with them.
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/18/2008 10:04:03 AM
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Our government is not perfect by any means and has many flaws and exploited loopholes, but underneath it all it is still a demcratic republic run by the people for the people with it's main focus on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hate all you want, I hate this country some times, but I wouldn't trade it for any other on this planet.
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RE: Have you guys seen these? - 1/18/2008 10:31:58 AM
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Our government is not perfect by any means and has many flaws and exploited loopholes, but underneath it all it is still a demcratic republic run by the people for the people with it's main focus on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hate all you want, I hate this country some times, but I wouldn't trade it for any other on this planet.
Catagorically, I do not hate USA. But I reserve the right to take the "mick" out of any government including my own. That's called Freedom of Speech. It is everybodies civic duty to make politicians lives hell on earth.
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