Crunching numbers on this green house, I reckon $60k plus a generous $10k maintenance allowance for the power system over the years it takes to recoup the losses.
Taking a true-cost approach, I'll ignore subsidies, though that certainly cuts the time in half for early buyers.
Pulling $180 per month out of my butt as an estimate for conventional power, I come up with about 32 years to pay off the difference. Which... is actually pretty good aside from the pile of Li-ion and silicon waste left at end-of-life.
i had an economics prof that wouldn't turn his mic off when he went in the hall to talk with students or when he went to use the restroom. and yeah, i don't remember hearing him wash his hands and if you had personal issues to discuss it was best to wait for office hours. the guy was greata prof, but the added comedy of bathroom noises really made the class worth while. his name was Stormin' Norman.
Mailbox: a steel receptacle that was once used for sending messages over long distances and is currently used to exchange optical media for other optical media.
It's too bad you can't do the uber cheapskate route and simply mail an undated neopost stamp for the shipment of the Blu Ray to avoid the $6.95 shipping charge :P
This could be great if you can find one of the crazy closeout deals on HD-DVD's. I saw a place locally selling them for like 6 bucks each about a week ago, you could really clean up buying a bunch and sending them in for the Blu-Ray equivalent...
Hmmm...so this is apparently the scene where Anderson Cooper shows up for an embedded interview?
"So you see Anderson, behind me here is where we make the magic happen. We can monitor the machines from 100 different locations, identifying at least 600 different ways that we are all going to die."
@paladinfello: I'm guessing that Skynet has already nuked it, and that the resistance is trying to cut off communications nodes via attacks of their own.
@AKAuser: Are you saying the french can't drive? Maybe it was the fault of the British because they drive on the wrong damn side of the road. Unlike France.
@Kaiser 'Google-It-Yourself' Machead: Actually... Bale is going to become a terminator himself in the movie, and the red light is merely clever foreshadowing.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: It was a cold barren nuclear wasteland I walked. In the distance, a child screams as a Terminator ripped it's arm off. A child that would no longer need sleeves. But I still did. And as i continued on, I noticed my arms weren't cold thanks to my Teledyne Tyvex Jacket!
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Taking a true-cost approach, I'll ignore subsidies, though that certainly cuts the time in half for early buyers.
Pulling $180 per month out of my butt as an estimate for conventional power, I come up with about 32 years to pay off the difference. Which... is actually pretty good aside from the pile of Li-ion and silicon waste left at end-of-life.
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"So you see Anderson, behind me here is where we make the magic happen. We can monitor the machines from 100 different locations, identifying at least 600 different ways that we are all going to die."
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Granted, I'm no jacket aficionado.
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"We're f*cking done professionally" is just TOO precious.
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