15 Responses to “In the Navy…”

1. knarlyknight Says:
   August 20th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

   Hilarious.

   Either way, sign me up for the US Navy.

2. shcb Says:
   August 21st, 2010 at 7:39 pm

   There we go, now it’s buried.

3. Smith Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 am

   I’m pretty sure burying that thread benefits you far more than it does jbc.

4. shcb Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 6:18 am

   he used some pretty words but the fact is I was right.

5. Smith Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 6:57 am

   You’re still confusing “fact” and “opinion”. Those nuns really dropped the ball with you.

6. shcb Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 9:34 am

   When you’re right you’re right, it is my opinion. It is my opinion this was a study that kept refining the parameters until it could make the predetermined point it wished to make. Then even that very narrow point was misrepresented. The study said that 98% of the most published of the signers of a few documents think global warming is primarily due to human activity, the representation given was it is 98% of all climate scientists. There are enough wiggle room words in there to make it more my opinion that fact but I think it would hold up in a court of law.

7. knarlyknight Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 11:37 am

   You’d never get a judge or jury to listen.

   http://www.wimp.com/solarhighways/

8. shcb Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 12:14 pm

   I certainly hope judges and juries have better things to do.

9. shcb Says:
   August 22nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm

   That solar road looks good to a point, seems they are spending a lot of time on the fun stuff without getting down to the job of making it pay for itself, still have the storage problem. Looks like a fun little project.

10. knarlyknight Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Yea, like imagine how lighted roads could transform Las Vegas from the humdrum little desert town it is now into some sort of spectacle.

11. shcb Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    :-) Gosh, it might even invite an industry built around night life to prosper. so what happens in a traffic jam? during a snow storm? at night?

    Actually, the big push we are seeing now is making a roof panel that has solar cells painted on it, they are getting close, it looks like we are about 10 years away. As that technology is evolving somone else is working on hybrid trucks with the same coating on the roof of the truck, of course it only works during the day, but it is a standalone system that does what it can.

12. Smith Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    I’d imagine the court would be more interested in the testimony of those who know what they are talking as opposed to the ranting of an armchair “expert”. But I guess you should never be surprised by the ignorance of a jury.

13. shcb Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    Ha ha Smith, you got that right! I’m as good a bullshitter as they come, I’ve actually engaged in sexual congress with women way out of my league due to my gift of gab, thank goodness the lovely lady I have enjoyed the last three decades with doesn’t venture here. A little self congratulations is in order here, third grandchild has arrived, fourth on the way in April.

14. NorthernLite Says:
    August 23rd, 2010 at 9:40 am

    Spray-on Solar Cells. So much potential.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html

    Very, very cool. Almost as cool as the navy video above.

15. enkidu Says:
    August 23rd, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    neato keen links
    Efficiency of the unit vs cost of production… I like the UV spectrum pickup! Absorb as many wavelengths as possible and then make it as cheap as possible. Maybe these UV print folks, the road folks and the nice folks at nanosolar could all get together and put the oil barons out of business?

    the only thing ‘right’ about wrong wing nut job is his extremist politics (oh dear, here comes some folksy anecdotes about how stupid libs is… ending with some cussing, then the death threats. There. I’ve saved this thread about 40 comments. That’s some energy efficiency for ya).

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