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I had the impression they drank a lot of coffee in the Middle East.

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No matter how firmly you attach the panels to the roof, if the roof itself is being blown off, the panels are going with it. A lot of people there can barely afford roofs over their heads at all, let alone top quality construction to prevent that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to throw a wet blanket on this - I think it's great. I just hope the panels are affixed properly so they don't provide airfoils to help lift the roof off the house in high winds. But I'm sure the people of Puerto Rico know more about their housing conditions and needs better than I ever could, so more power to 'em (npi).

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Hey, Puerto Rico, Way To Go With All The Solar!

I went back to San Juan, and the coal plant was gone.All my childhood memories [etc. and so on]Hey ho, way to go Puerto Rico.

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hah, embuggerances, well i never … it’s vocabulary expanders like this that keep me coming back & donating … thanks Dok …

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they effectively throttled Nicola Tesla for wanting to ‘’free’’ energy also, too …

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in the beginning there was this big turtle …

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got light bulbs for free from Detroit Edison when i was a yute …

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borrowed from Sir Pterry Pratchett, of course.

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Embiggening and emanaling lead to embuggering the embuggerances.

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An embuggerance is like a sconce, except it contains a shite covered penis rather than a torch.

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Do you sell back to the grid, or store the excess power?

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but if everybody gets cell phones how are they going to use push polls to ratfuck elections? why, it's practically discrimination!. Unfair to ratfuckers!

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what if nobody has a black cockerel to sacrifice in time?unless you prefer goats.

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Counterpoint: If you must add cream- and sugar-adjacent products to make coffee drinkable, you’re drinking bad coffee. Nothing but black in our house; we grind the beans of our choice at home. If you’re only in it for the caffeine, drop a No-Doz.

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Look for government incentive programs on the heat pump, in Canada there are several!

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But what if we can entice the sun to come back each day??? Give the sun food, drink, and maybe an occasional human being every day, especially if that human has been super naughty???

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