sidearm delivery: I’ve Always Sucked At Math
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Array-ne Ontario has announced that it will pay 11 cents per kilowatt-hr for biomass, micro-hydro, and wind energy, and it will pay 44 cents per kilowatt-hr for solar energy. Ontario up’ing the rate to 11 cents halves the payback time to 18′ish years, and to 44 cents boosts payback to 4 or 5 years (assuming an all solar system).So, for 0,000 you can be electrically off-grid with a payback of a mere four years.
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-ne Static [1993 series]33 issues [1993 - 1997]1 - 32, 44The last of the four books that launched the Milestone line in 1993, this one featuring Virgil Hawkins, high school kid, who got electrical powers in the same Big Bang event that gave most of the Blood Syndicate their powers. A few of the earliest issues were reprinted a few years later, along with a new mini-series, when the character got his own TV cartoon, which lasted for four years, though oddly not spawning much in the way of spin-off books beyond those initial offerings.The series had the best first year of the line, with some great artwork from John Paul Leon and some really energetic (ha) writing from Robert Washington and Dwayne McDuffie for the first four issues, then Washington solo for the next while.
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This should get us talking…–Sixty million women living in the U.S. are currently in their childbearing years (age 15 - 44 on average).–Forty-two million of these women are sexually active and do not wish to become pregnant.–Half of all indemnity (fee-for-service) insurance plans in the U.S. do not cover any reversible contraception.–Women of reproductive age pay 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men in the same age group.–Providing full contraceptive coverage in employment-based health care plans would cost employers, at most, only 1.40 per employee per year.(Source: The Alan Guttmacher Institute)
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-ne As you may know, this year’s skill-based (as opposed to age-based) State Championship Road Race is scheduled for June 25 at Fort Hood near Killeen. The Pro1/2 race is 112 miles, the 3s race is 78 miles, and the rest are 44 miles.
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-ne My Fist, Your Face: Ivan The Hammer Baranka giving Konstantin Pushkarev a lesson in directional derivatives (Chris Rutsch photo)I’m sure there are many worse ways to spend a workday than going to a hockey game with an 11 AM start, even if riding in a bus for three hours down from Manchester, NH, to Hartford to watch your team get their butts whipped at an 11am hockey game (as the Monarchs Booster Club did today) is probably one of them. Linemates Colby Genoway (23), Dwight Helminen (26), and Nigel Dawes (31) all scored goals for the Wolf Pack, with Thomas Pöck and Ivan Baranka each having two assists. Jackman picked the wrong guy to mess with, though, as Grenier instantly laid out Jackman with a single punch that was right on the button, knocking Jackman out cold even though Grenier never even took his gloves off. Baranka then finished the fight by yanking Pushkarev’s jersey over his head and tying him up with it while he brought down several heavy forearm chops on the top of Pushkarev’s head.That Old Trick: Chad Wiseman gets tripped up by Mark Ardelan (Courant photo)The Wolf Pack’s Nigel Dawes was recently featured in an article on nhl.com, by the way (click here to go to the article).
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