Hippie Continuum
2011-11-09 05:48:39.945963+01 by
Dan Lyke
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Shadow pointed to Mother Nature Network's reposting of The Hippie Continuum, originally posted at 1 Block Off The Grid: Infographic: The Hippie Continuum. I got a chuckle or two, but it's also a good reminder that the retired-early capitalist up the street who has the big rainwater catchment system and the huge solar array. has different reasons than the Mercedes driving Gucci wearing neighbors who have the solar water heater array for their pool, has different reasons from the dad next door who says of his solar array "it's not quite practical, but it sends a message to my kids", who has different reasons from...
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#Comment Re: made: 2011-11-10 00:07:31.50805+01 by:
Mars Saxman
They definitely work. :-)
#Comment Re: made: 2011-11-09 21:31:01.389206+01 by:
meuon
Of course, I have to ask the obvious question: Do LED's work as grow lights?
http://stealthgrow.com/ - Apparently they do, or at least claim to.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-11-09 20:26:05.908925+01 by:
Mars Saxman
Better solution is just to go LED and cut your power consumption down to 10% of what it would be with
HID. voila, your grow-op disappears in the noise, burning no more power than a space heater or two.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-11-09 20:15:06.665966+01 by:
meuon
My favorite reason: To hid your "grow op" electrical consumption from the utility and authorities.
Of course, having 30+kw of solar arrays is so very discrete.
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