Which would you choose ?
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
C A R ........ most definitely! :rolleyes::cool: "Creating tomorrow's legacy systems today..... .... One CRISIS at a time!" -- Unknown "If you build it.... .....BUGS will come!" -JB
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
or 3) a machine that can achieve 60fps on Doom III. :-D Yes, even I am blogging now!
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
I believe a mid-life crisis car will definitely cost you more than $50K. I recommend the solar panel which will not only lower your bills and give you an energy tax credit, but more importantly will afford the opportunity to mercilessly deride those rely exclusively on conventional energy sources. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
I should have such problems I vote for the midlife crisis car....(or have you considered a motorbike) "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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I believe a mid-life crisis car will definitely cost you more than $50K. I recommend the solar panel which will not only lower your bills and give you an energy tax credit, but more importantly will afford the opportunity to mercilessly deride those rely exclusively on conventional energy sources. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: mercilessly deride those rely exclusively on conventional energy sources Can't put a price on that :-D "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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or 3) a machine that can achieve 60fps on Doom III. :-D Yes, even I am blogging now!
Uh.. for that kind of money you would get MANY such computers. :-D Or did you mean average FPS? That may be hard to achieve... -- Denn du bist, was du isst! Und ihr wisst, was es ist! Es ist mein Teil...?
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
Mercedes SLK :cool: -- Denn du bist, was du isst! Und ihr wisst, was es ist! Es ist mein Teil...?
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
How about a time machine? Should have some spare money for survival kit in case you get stuck somewhere when you use it too. Failing that, the solar panels. Mid life crisis cars are not cool, unless you going to go the whole hog and have an afair with a hot 18 year old chick.
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
If you get the Solar Panel now and set aside the savings in energy cost - you just might be able to get the car in a few years anyway. And then, the continued savings will help with the auto insurance and other related costs :smart: Steve
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
If you make use of opportunities in life such as this you will be better off in the long run. I'd reccomend either the solar panels or start playing around in the share market. The corvette will only give you a brief period of staisfaction and chances are you won't be able to replace it in the future, which will lead to a bit of depression. So save/invest now and later you may be able to actually maintain a corvette. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Uh.. for that kind of money you would get MANY such computers. :-D Or did you mean average FPS? That may be hard to achieve... -- Denn du bist, was du isst! Und ihr wisst, was es ist! Es ist mein Teil...?
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Uh.. for that kind of money you would get MANY such computers. Hmmmm... But maybe only one that is able to play Doom III at 60fps :) Yes, even I am blogging now!
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How about a time machine? Should have some spare money for survival kit in case you get stuck somewhere when you use it too. Failing that, the solar panels. Mid life crisis cars are not cool, unless you going to go the whole hog and have an afair with a hot 18 year old chick.
Giles wrote: Mid life crisis cars are not cool, unless you going to go the whole hog and have an afair with a hot 18 year old chick I have enough money for the car ... but I'm nowhere close to having enough money for the hot 18 year old chick :laugh:
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
In my mid-life (not really a crisis) period a few years back I bought a Red Porsche Boxster, so I'd have to say the car. SLK's are nice but IMO a Boxster is hard to beat. But of course I'm somewhat biased. And FYI I've never regretted the decision. When you run your own business and put in as many hours as I do toys are a great reward when and if you can afford them. That said I'm also extremelly interested in alternative power.:rose: Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Uh.. for that kind of money you would get MANY such computers. Hmmmm... But maybe only one that is able to play Doom III at 60fps :) Yes, even I am blogging now!
I saw a review of Doom III on various hardware setups. IIRC the hottest configuration had something like an average 50 FPS. The spikes went up above 80 (couldn't see where it landed though, because the upper limit on the diagrams were 80 FPS). -- Denn du bist, was du isst! Und ihr wisst, was es ist! Es ist mein Teil...?
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If you get the Solar Panel now and set aside the savings in energy cost - you just might be able to get the car in a few years anyway. And then, the continued savings will help with the auto insurance and other related costs :smart: Steve
Steve Mayfield wrote: If you get the Solar Panel now and set aside the savings in energy cost I've been investigating it for a while and quite frankly there really isnt much savings. The real motivation for me, in regard to the solar panels, is just to make a political statement. I dont like how dependent we are on oil. So in the spirit of putting my money where my mouth is buying the solar panels would, at least symbolically, do my part to lessen our dependence on oil. Of course, that sentiment also makes it harder for me to buy a guess guzzler like a corvette .. but damn, it is one sexy car :-) Another advantage to the solar panels though would be that I would not have to suffer through another black out. Anyhow, thanks for the feedback :-)
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
Solar System. I have a 120W panel, and it is so cool running stuff with energy from the sun (stored in batteries, of course). Now, you're talking a couple magnitudes larger, of course, so I'm assuming you would be selling the spare power back onto the grid? Way cool! Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog Hunt The Wumpus RealDevs.Net
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Steve Mayfield wrote: If you get the Solar Panel now and set aside the savings in energy cost I've been investigating it for a while and quite frankly there really isnt much savings. The real motivation for me, in regard to the solar panels, is just to make a political statement. I dont like how dependent we are on oil. So in the spirit of putting my money where my mouth is buying the solar panels would, at least symbolically, do my part to lessen our dependence on oil. Of course, that sentiment also makes it harder for me to buy a guess guzzler like a corvette .. but damn, it is one sexy car :-) Another advantage to the solar panels though would be that I would not have to suffer through another black out. Anyhow, thanks for the feedback :-)
David Patrick wrote: The real motivation for me, in regard to the solar panels, is just to make a political statement. Yup. That was my part of my motivation. David Patrick wrote: it is one sexy car Sure is! I must say though, there's a house in my neighborhood with 21 panels on the roof. I keep thinking how cool that is. Maybe because it's so unique. David Patrick wrote: Another advantage to the solar panels though would be that I would not have to suffer through another black out. We've had a couple minor outages already this year. The batteries store about one KWH of power, so I can keep the lights (full spectrum florescents) and computers on for a while. You know what blew me away? Just changing all the lightbulbs from incandescent to florescent saved $10 an month on a $60/mo electric bill. I was pretty surprised. Marc Microsoft MVP, Visual C# MyXaml MyXaml Blog Hunt The Wumpus RealDevs.Net
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Our house remodel is coming in under budget so I may have 35k to 50k to spare. I'm having a hard time deciding between the following two options : 1) a 10 to 15 kilowatt solar panel system for the house or 2) a corvette ( or mercedes slk, or similiar midlife crisis type car :laugh: )
7 speed auto V6 SLK or 6 speed Boxster S, probably the latter... You only live once. And if the paths that I have followed/have tread against the flow/there is no need for sorrow I am coming home Return, Crüxshadows