Date:         Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:25:21 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Battery usage shouldn't be our style. (p-mail)
Comments: To: Bob Elliott <bobe@LAME.CA>
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Uh, I THINK your solar panels definitely outweigh the eight D-cells
I've bought since... well, probably longer than you've been alive.
Anyway, you put your lead-acid vanagon batteries on in the morning
the same way I do.

It didn't go without notice that you used the diminutive of my name
as an attempt at an insult. But what more would we expect?

Jim "Wide Tongue" Felder


On Aug 6, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Bob Elliott wrote:

> Here we go ... yes Jimmy the production of solar panels do cause
> pollution during their manufacture but, once they're produced and
> being utilized to generate electricity they themselves do not pollute
> any further, unlike coal electric plants, internal combustion
> engines, hydrogen power plants (hydrogen takes great amounts of
> non-renewable energy to make), even wind generators need
> maintenance etc.
>
> Thanks for playing ...
>
> Oh btw ... please don't take the comment of mine that you quoted as
> being a platitude for it is a list proven truth ... as your response
> has shown us.
>
> sincerely,
>
> bob elliott
>
>
> At 06:51 PM 8/6/2006, you wrote:
>
>
>>>>> I realize that the 'old guard' will find many faults with this
>>>>> writing and will somehow devise a way to defend 8 disposable "D"
>>>>> cell
>>>>> usage for a fan. To them I say that a wide tongue is often the
>>>>> product of a narrow heart.
>>>>>
>>>>> sincerely
>>>>>
>>>>> bob elliott
>>>>>
>>
>>
>> Save me the f*****g platitudes and go google how much the manufacture
>> or your solar panels pollute the earth.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>>>> d
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Have you noticed that shallow is the new deep.
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