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The Public Utilities Commission has just trashed canned Grid Tie.  In the old stupid program (it must have been stupid or they wouldn't have trashed it) when you over produced kilowatts in the mid day sun that excess was saved for you and applied towards your evening use one for one.  The new and improved grid tie program in Hawaii has some great improvements.  Your're now paid wholesale (.15) for each extra hour you produce in the day time.  And then when you need power in the evening you get to pay retail (.30+).  That's a net profit of 35,600% per year (100% per day comes to 36,500%).  Not a bad gain for The Hawaii Electrical Corporation (HELCO - the company from Hell - anagrams live) on my plant and equipment.  Yup, it gets worse.  If I upgrade my existing system I must turn it over to the new program - no grandfather or grandmother. 

Gosh, I wonder why I balked at adding another 4 KW to my roof top.  Incidentally, the first big public auction went down this July where the equipment and materials of the dying solar installation companies were liquidated.

Best Solar window in the United States and the Peoples representatives just sold us down the river.  Don't worry.  This improved program is coming to you.

I don't understand why all of these new wholesalers don't have to report their income to the state and federal tax collectors - taxable gain scenario?  But then can trips to Hover Damn be write-offs.  Or to Germany to review their solar innovations?  Or to the Grand Caymans to investigate off-shore unreported incomes - you know where third world politicians hide their illicit gains.

Oh, HELCO just applied for a license to build generator systems based on natural gas.  The future is for first worlds.

Casey

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Hello All,

Well it's been over a year that I prophesied that oil would be back up to $100 a gallon within a year.  I believed this so strongly that I bought about 500 gallons of diesel in June.  The price has even fell from that level.  I now go temporarily deaf when the news reports the price of a barrel of oil.  When I made the prophesy we were paying about 42 cents a kilowatt here in Hawaii.  We are now down to almost 30 cents as about 80% of the electricity is oil fired generators.  There's the up side.  And in January when I buy my next 500 gallons of diesel I'll be delighted.  In case your interested the electrical generation corporation on the Big Island is for sale.  (I should have prophesied this.)

To All My Progressive Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.  I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2016, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes. 

To My Conservative Friends:  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   

I received this beautiful sentimental thought this morning in the email.  I just couldn't resist sharing it with you.

Casey

Wasn't there a thread that discussed the best oil or "stuff" to loosen tight nuts.  (Keep it clean.)

Suggestions?

Casey

I saw the name and thought "How can a Lister junkie not have a pressure washer named a Piss Mate?  I'd have to go out and buy a Furuk 6/1 to wash with it.

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Casey

My neighbor has a Craftsman band saw and a previous owner didn't tighten the pull correctly and it's all woppidoed out.  Where would we shop for a replacement two stage pulley.  It's a really nice tilting table unit and a shame to pitch it.

Help.

Casey

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A mud pump.  How many times have I muttered "If I only had a mud pump!"?

Casey