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I heard that also; The goverment looked into that; it was a myth.  This document has refrences to articles from the 90's and it shows a 2-year paypack (the multi-crystaline cells they are talking about are out now; and there is some thin film as well)

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37322.pdf

I just got to lisitng to episode 387, ".....some of the same technology that Honda orginally developed for it's asmo rabet."
late night + jet lag adds up to a great show!

aloha!

check out gas buddy, They give cheapest, most expensive, and average cost for many places via sister sites.  They also give hisorical data for a bunch of cities in the US & Canada, and allow you to make comparison graphs.  This stuff is pretty fun to look at.

I like twit better.  If I knew that was also accepted, I would have been using it.  Power to the twitter, give twits a chance!

Has anyone else noticed how Todd calls messages on twitter a twit?
Logical name for them.  I'm sure Leo doesn't mind any

I made a web site for an eBay seller, I used the search function of ebay to find all of his items, then that makes a RSS feed.  I load that rss feed on his website so all of his items appear on the site.  All was well for the first month or two; then it stopped receiving data from ebay.  I could not figure out what was going on... I could load other RSS feeds; just not any data from eBay... I spent a lot of time calling and writing the various help address and got nowhere.  My final number was for the developers program.  Before you can call someone over there, you need to pay for your time.  So I clicked the buy support hours, and then get a screen saying:

You've encountered a site error. Please let the site administrator know about this.

yup!  I needed help to get help.  Now, it had an email address to write to; but really? Being a very patient person I just started laughing.  That was Friday night.  Today it all started working again.  I have upped my cache time from 1 hour to 1 day in hopes that was the problem.  Anyone else use eBay rss feeds?  Maybe you know something about this?  I would love to hear an expiation
TIA, Jeff

Why do you want to go solar? is it to reduse your impact on the enviroment? There is one fairly easy way to start out... Of the three things you need for going Solar: panels, battries, and an Inverter.  You go without the inverter if you only want to charge portible devices.  Maybe a product like the NRG Dock is a good place to start.

Name: Jeffry E

Location: Chicago IL

When you started listening to GNC: June 30, 2005 (give or take)

Your Profession: Graphic design - Comic books and web pages

Favorite pizza topping: Why is is singular? I like so many toppings! Top 3 are:

1. Pepperoni
2. onion
3. bell pepper

One place you've always wanted to go to: Madagascar

Mac or PC:Mac

On show 369 a caller left a message correcting your pernounceing of neanderthal.

I know... that was 3 weeks ago... that was also the last good one
I was thinking about this lately, and decided to look that one up.  There are two correct ways to say that; the way Todd said it (I forgot when) and the way the caller said it.  see merriam-webster.  Please, Todd; don't start proofing your shows.  If you think your going to slaughter the pernounceation of something just give it your best.  The Natural feel of the show is great!

I give this forum a thumbs up.  I hope to get to know some of your other listeners better.