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    Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 10:01am
offgrid, are you suggesting that my memory of riding on the back of brachiosaurus in 1965 is the result of an herbal fog?  .... a false memory?  Disapprove

I'm just kidding folks, I never really did anything bad in 1965.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 10:36am
Originally posted by lostagain

offgrid, are you suggesting that my memory of riding on the back of brachiosaurus in 1965 is the result of an herbal fog?  .... a false memory?  Disapprove

I'm just kidding folks, I never really did anything bad in 1965.
LOL! None of of strayed from the straight and narrow in 1965. It wasn't until 1968 that we started to get kinky. Star
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 10:54am
Hey, c'mon, you guys are off by 15 years. 38 years ago was 1980.  I'm not so old that I was doing solar in 1965! I was 11 and PV was only on a few comm satellites then....

By 1980 we were selling it commercially. Our big markets:

Norcal pot growers for pumping water and navaids for the Coast Guard. 

The price? $15 per watt...in 1980 dollars ($46/watt in 2018 dollars). Yep, only the government and pot growers had enough cash for solar modules back then. Talk about economies of scale, that's a 100 fold price decrease. Unfortunately, we have to thank the Chinese for that, we gave up our leadership in solar manufacturing in the late 90's. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 11:28am
Solar is still electrical, and the rules for electricity have not changed. Solar panels have gotten invented, and improved now for a few decades, but the rules were created by Georg Ohm in 1827. Those have not changed.
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LOL! None of of strayed from the straight and narrow in 1965. It wasn't until 1968 that we started to get kinky. Star

I moved to SF for college in '67 and I promise, it was pretty strange then.  In 1965 it was pretty kinky even in places like Bakersfield, .... one of the many reasons I left.  Not even the electrons and protons would follow the rules.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 1:32pm
I wanted to see how much propane we have used....3 weekend trips and one 8 day trip.  Though I can't verify how full my propane tank was new, I pulled it off and stopped at Costco.  1.81 gallons is all it took to top the tank off.  $4 bucks is all for that usage.  Not bad.
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