Hello Everybody!!!

[bobcollum]

How do you feel about dragons?

Good question; I just wondered if the name yours was derived from influenced you in any way, as in "a seeker" or a "soldier of fortune"

Jason's connection with dragons was with the teeth of dragons only; as planted, and once planted rising as warrior skeletons - unexpected consequences. Dragons are an eastern or oriental concept.

LOL, my real 1st name is Jason. I've not the imagination or ego enough to come up with a nick name or what have you, My name was chosen by my parents because it means "Healer" in Greek. In greek, Jason is pronounced (phonetically) EE-YAH-sohn-AHS. I've been to many ports that The Argonauts have traveled to in my time in the Navy cruising the Med. Sea. Never felt a connection, but now that you mention it, we were both sailors,

Were you born in 1977?

 

[IGetItAlready]

Thanking you for serving us.

Alternatives. Pffft.

LOL, it was fun. Good outlet for an adrenyline junkie like me. After a while, hit my early 30's & wanted to finish my degree. Interested in bio fuels, engineering easily affordable solar cars, etc. Was on Subs for 5 years & a naval Expeditionary Warfare Specialist for 7 & counting. Have a 12 year technical background altogether. Picking alternative energy because it's more sustainable than oil. Oil's gonna run out sooner or later & MAY run out just before I kick off. If it doesn't, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to drive a hybrid or electric car than a gas combustion engine motorized car. If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make cents (sense).

When the older crowd that's anti-sustainable energy is gone & senile, & the generation X people are in charge, we can get the ball rolling for cleaner cheaper energy. Hopefully, our kids won't be so retarded they won't know what to do with the ball once they get it, LOL!

Seems to me with hundreds of billions now thrown away on so-called alternatives, the only thing holding us back is that no viable alternative yet exists.

 

[Mr. H.]

Ahhh, 1977... I remember it as if it were only 35 years ago.

 

[Jason1977]

It's difficult to express independent thoughts here especially if favorable to Obama because you get called all sorts of childish and disgusting names, labeled as a lib (even when you're not). If you try to protest that you're an independent a certain radical conservative element here will jump to conclusions about you as supporting EVERYTHING Obama does and says, etc. They think, like them, you have to buy into the WHOLE party ideology and if you don't , you're something other than you are. Or if you like 50% of what Obama does and that 50% is most important to you, then you have to be in total support of everything he says and does. Have fun, good luck and welcome!

+1000~!!! I love you! FINALLY!!! someone understands me!!! You said it!!! But how do you ignore or block the peanut gallery? That's what I'm looking for & for some reason, can't find it. Beautiful post though. You said it.

You can go to USER CP and there is a clickable link for ignore list. I don't like to use it though because, then when you read threads, sometimes it is difficult to get the flow or gist of what is said if other ignore list people's posts are blocked (you won't be able to read them unless you take a step to do so). I just try to ignore them as much as possible when I'm reading although it's very difficult! I can't resist responding in kind sometimes.

Also you will find out people childishly neg you if you say something the disagree with or think is stupid in their opinion so you have that battle to enlist in if you like. It doesn't matter that much to me one way or the other but sometimes it is a good feeling to neg someone back. I don't do negs unless someone negs me first.

Also, when did you retire or get out of the service? My husband is a retired Major/Army and served 2 tours in Viet Nam. Thank you for your service!

Good to know! Not really interested in reducing people's points or what have you. Sounds like kids arguing & battling w. squirt guns. The forum provided the rep points as squirt guns. Not going to bite, lol, I don't have much of an ego. A persons reputation should be based on credibility, intelligence, & ability to handle whatever's on their plate. People will be who they are, I get that, it's the internet. Make a place for things & things come. As for me, sometimes I like a visit to the zoo so I can see the monkeys

Technically still in the service. 12 years active, in the reserves now. Was a submariner for 5 years, retaliated in 2001 against the Taliban on my 1st deployment which was a booze cruise turned war tour. 2003, OIF, shock and awe campaign against iraq. 2004, changed communites to the Naval Expeditionary Warfare community.

I'm an E-6 (Petty Officer 1st Class) In the reserves now training junior sailors & essentially mentoring & being mentored. I'm the Educational Officer for my command as well as a drug screening urinalysis co-coordinator. I like my level or position because it's at the deck plate level, I love working with my hands & fixing things. I have a knack for acquiring parts & saving commands money in fixing things before they up & replace them. $2.50 part vs. $5000 system.

It's fun & very satisfying. When I'm finished w. my degree, I hope to be in a management position in the sales / production of cost effective & energy efficient items that rely on alternative energy. (Majoring in Language in International Trade @ Clemson Univ.) Thought process is that my technical background will boost my marketability in the business industry with fluent German under my belt. It looks good on paper. We'll see if it pans out.

 

[Jason1977]

Ahhh, 1977... I remember it as if it were only 35 years ago.

the year I escaped from the womb....LOL. (ever watch family guy?)

I was born at 1:13pm (13:13) 13 days before Elvis died, when postage was 13c per stamp.

Guess MY lucky number, LOL!

 

[bobcollum]

^ Older than me.

 

[Jason1977]

Thanking you for serving us.

Alternatives. Pffft.

LOL, it was fun. Good outlet for an adrenyline junkie like me. After a while, hit my early 30's & wanted to finish my degree. Interested in bio fuels, engineering easily affordable solar cars, etc. Was on Subs for 5 years & a naval Expeditionary Warfare Specialist for 7 & counting. Have a 12 year technical background altogether. Picking alternative energy because it's more sustainable than oil. Oil's gonna run out sooner or later & MAY run out just before I kick off. If it doesn't, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to drive a hybrid or electric car than a gas combustion engine motorized car. If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make cents (sense).

When the older crowd that's anti-sustainable energy is gone & senile, & the generation X people are in charge, we can get the ball rolling for cleaner cheaper energy. Hopefully, our kids won't be so retarded they won't know what to do with the ball once they get it, LOL!

Seems to me with hundreds of billions now thrown away on so-called alternatives, the only thing holding us back is that no viable alternative yet exists.

Ever wonder why ethanol is used in gasoline? I wonder every day! It takes about 1 gallon of fossil fuel to get the cellulose in corn to break down at a high enough temperature to produce about 1 gallon of ethanol. The trouble is oil can run out. Corn is replaceable. In the geological time span, oil is replaceable, but I think that won't happen until the next few ice ages, lol. Make sense? Ask any farmer's son in Vermillion, South Dakota, lol.

If more people used alternative energy, the cost would go down. It would offset the cost of research & implementation. If car companies made electric cars & sold them for $20,000 instead of $50,000, they'd sell so many, they'd recover their costs & then some. It's expensive now because it's not common place. Or as common as it should be. There's hydroelectric dams everywhere. They seem to do the trick. It's not really about complete replacement, it's more replacement where practical. That's the idea.

Atomic, Hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, recycled materials for construction (being more cost effective and efficient in maintaining thermal temperature inside buildings reducing heating / cooling costs, thereby reducing energy consumption. It's more than viable. It's the gradual implementation that's inevitable. If it were done over night, the world would stop turning for a short time, lol. Gradual but progressive momentum is what's occurring. Would you buy an electric car if you knew you could pay it off in 2 or 3 years laugh as you drive by a gas station knowing you'll never have to do that again?

Let me put it another way: Citizens of middle eastern countries don't pay taxes. Their leadership drives the rest of the world insane. They're sitting on a cache of what makes the world go round. Suppose we got to the point where dependency on them diminished to the point where they had to pay taxes. Their gov'ts would have to change their tune. They'd be in their desert with their black goop & sand. That's it. That'll be all she wrote. The citizens will blame their regimes & watch how fast they get in step with the rest of the world. It'll be amazing. That's why I'm pursuing it.

 

[Shelzin]

After being greeted by the cast of the muppet show and after a few friendly suggestions, I'm introducing myself on the intro-page.

I'm conservative when it's necessary & liberal when necessary. I'm not hot or cold, black nor white. Yes I have opinions, but what I mean is I'm not an absolutist.

I'm for strong but small gov't, strong military, 2nd amendment, gay rights, environment.

My brother is gay. I'm a war vet. I'm pursuing a degree to one day use in the alternative industry. That's where I sit in a nutshell.

Was suspended from a tea party forum today for basically not blindly backing Romney like they asked everyone to do & for essentially having an independent thought process. I like to think I've been accused of having a brain. I think it's funny and showed my fiancee what it was that got me suspended & she said, well, what makes you think any other political forum will let you think for yourself. I told her, well, I'm more hopeful than I should be.

This particular fish pool likes brevity, so I kept it to pop-up book format rather than a novel, LOL! See ya out there!

Oh for the love of god... Just tell them to fuck off next time they tell you to do something.

fuck off

Practice is good.

 

[Jason1977]

Oh for the love of god... Just tell them to fuck off next time they tell you to do something.

fuck off

Practice is good.

hehehehe, yer okay in my book,

 

[IGetItAlready]

LOL, it was fun. Good outlet for an adrenyline junkie like me. After a while, hit my early 30's & wanted to finish my degree. Interested in bio fuels, engineering easily affordable solar cars, etc. Was on Subs for 5 years & a naval Expeditionary Warfare Specialist for 7 & counting. Have a 12 year technical background altogether. Picking alternative energy because it's more sustainable than oil. Oil's gonna run out sooner or later & MAY run out just before I kick off. If it doesn't, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to drive a hybrid or electric car than a gas combustion engine motorized car. If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make cents (sense).

When the older crowd that's anti-sustainable energy is gone & senile, & the generation X people are in charge, we can get the ball rolling for cleaner cheaper energy. Hopefully, our kids won't be so retarded they won't know what to do with the ball once they get it, LOL!

Seems to me with hundreds of billions now thrown away on so-called alternatives, the only thing holding us back is that no viable alternative yet exists.

Ever wonder why ethanol is used in gasoline? I wonder every day! It takes about 1 gallon of gasoline to get the cellulose in corn to break down at a high enough temperature to produce about 1 gallon of ethanol. The trouble is oil can run out. Corn is replaceable. In the geological time span, oil is replaceable, but I think that won't happen until the next few ice ages, lol. Make sense? Ask any farmer's son in Vermillion, South Dakota, lol.

If more people used alternative energy, the cost would go down. It would offset the cost of research & implementation. If car companies made electric cars & sold them for $20,000 instead of $50,000, they'd sell so many, they'd recover their costs & then some. It's expensive now because it's not common place. Or as common as it should be. There's hydroelectric dams everywhere. They seem to do the trick. It's not really about complete replacement, it's more replacement where practical. That's the idea.

Atomic, Hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, recycled materials for construction (being more cost effective and efficient in maintaining thermal temperature inside buildings reducing heating / cooling costs, thereby reducing energy consumption. It's more than viable. It's the gradual implementation that's inevitable. If it were done over night, the world would stop turning for a short time, lol. Gradual but progressive momentum is what's occurring. Would you buy an electric car if you knew you could pay it off in 2 or 3 years laugh as you drive by a gas station knowing you'll never have to do that again?

Let me put it another way: Citizens of middle eastern countries don't pay taxes. Their leadership drives the rest of the world insane. They're sitting on a cache of what makes the world go round. Suppose we got to the point where dependency on them diminished to the point where they had to pay taxes. Their gov'ts would have to change their tune.

Electric cars have been around since before WWI, hell, before 1900 even and in over a century they're still getting the average 40 miles/ charge that they got back then.
No, I'd not buy an electric car as they're currently produced for 20k or even 10k simply because it wouldn't support my transportation needs...not even close.

Where you're right is in the area of electricity production but there again, the same folks telling me the debate is over in regard to man made global warming also have massive issues with the most efficient of those methods, that being nuclear. Shit, we can't even get the alarmists to stfu long enough to consider clean coal or natural gas as a viable alternative to get us through the transition period.

This is an all or nothing game despite the disingenuous claims of "all of the above". And to be quite honest I take a hell of a lot of offense to that entire approach. It would be nice if we could get reasonable and talk some common sense compromise but we both know that's not happening.

 

[Jason1977]

Seems to me with hundreds of billions now thrown away on so-called alternatives, the only thing holding us back is that no viable alternative yet exists.

Ever wonder why ethanol is used in gasoline? I wonder every day! It takes about 1 gallon of gasoline to get the cellulose in corn to break down at a high enough temperature to produce about 1 gallon of ethanol. The trouble is oil can run out. Corn is replaceable. In the geological time span, oil is replaceable, but I think that won't happen until the next few ice ages, lol. Make sense? Ask any farmer's son in Vermillion, South Dakota, lol.

If more people used alternative energy, the cost would go down. It would offset the cost of research & implementation. If car companies made electric cars & sold them for $20,000 instead of $50,000, they'd sell so many, they'd recover their costs & then some. It's expensive now because it's not common place. Or as common as it should be. There's hydroelectric dams everywhere. They seem to do the trick. It's not really about complete replacement, it's more replacement where practical. That's the idea.

Atomic, Hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, recycled materials for construction (being more cost effective and efficient in maintaining thermal temperature inside buildings reducing heating / cooling costs, thereby reducing energy consumption. It's more than viable. It's the gradual implementation that's inevitable. If it were done over night, the world would stop turning for a short time, lol. Gradual but progressive momentum is what's occurring. Would you buy an electric car if you knew you could pay it off in 2 or 3 years laugh as you drive by a gas station knowing you'll never have to do that again?

Let me put it another way: Citizens of middle eastern countries don't pay taxes. Their leadership drives the rest of the world insane. They're sitting on a cache of what makes the world go round. Suppose we got to the point where dependency on them diminished to the point where they had to pay taxes. Their gov'ts would have to change their tune.

Electric cars have been around since before WWI, hell, before 1900 even and in over a century they're still getting the average 40 miles/ charge that they got back then.
No, I'd not buy an electric car as they're currently produced for 20k or even 10k simply because it wouldn't support my transportation needs...not even close.

Where you're right is in the area of electricity production but there again, the same folks telling me the debate is over in regard to man made global warming also have massive issues with the most efficient of those methods, that being nuclear. Shit, we can't even get the alarmists to stfu long enough to consider clean coal or natural gas as a viable alternative to get us through the transition period.

This is an all or nothing game despite the disingenuous claims of "all of the above". And to be quite honest I take a hell of a lot of offense to that entire approach. It would be nice if we could get reasonable and talk some common sense compromise but we both know that's not happening.

Did the electric cars have 2 batteries and solar panels embedded in the body of the car so it ran on battery during night time while the brakes recharged the battery not in use? Was there a switch to change from one battery to the other to extend travel distance? Were there recharge stations at people's work place or public places? These are all things that have yet to come. My town & school have parking places w. plugs where people can recharge their cars at work and at school. Solar panels embedded in a car would provide enough to run electrical systems using LED's for display lights that use hardly any juice at all. I draw schematics in my spare time. It's possible. Solar panels are nothing but silicon. The earth's crust is 18 miles thick with it.

Global warming is global warming. Energy efficiency & sustainability is another. As it happens one would seem to compliment the other. Natural gas is a beautiful thing. My town has a bus system where all the city buses are either running on natural gas produced from the town garbage dump or electric. These buses are also being exported around the world by an American company. It's growing. It's a start.

I see what you're saying about the all or nothing. Unfortunately, the rest of the world doesn't live in a hippy commune, lol. I agree it's going to be a gradual change. As it happens, necessary that its gradual. Force a flower to bloom faster & it falls apart in your hand. Time takes care of everything. In the meantime, people like me are hitting the drawing board to come up with something economical, efficient, & used widely. In the 90's, people told me to get into computers. Well today ya call tech support & ya get, hello my friend....my name "Peggy"....would you care to hear about how my sister was sold to a man for 3 camels?" That's computers today unfortunately. Alt. energy is a growing industry. If we can make this work, future generations will laugh & be thankful they will have no understanding of utility bills. (in my own imaginary world, lol)

 

[Shelzin]

fuck off

Practice is good.

hehehehe, yer okay in my book,

Opinions vary.

 

[Jason1977]

^ Older than me.

I knew that a long time ago, lol. Kinda took it for granted

 

[sealadaigh]

After being greeted by the cast of the muppet show and after a few friendly suggestions, I'm introducing myself on the intro-page.

I'm conservative when it's necessary & liberal when necessary. I'm not hot or cold, black nor white. Yes I have opinions, but what I mean is I'm not an absolutist.

I'm for strong but small gov't, strong military, 2nd amendment, gay rights, environment.

My brother is gay. I'm a war vet. I'm pursuing a degree to one day use in the alternative industry. That's where I sit in a nutshell.

Was suspended from a tea party forum today for basically not blindly backing Romney like they asked everyone to do & for essentially having an independent thought process. I like to think I've been accused of having a brain. I think it's funny and showed my fiancee what it was that got me suspended & she said, well, what makes you think any other political forum will let you think for yourself. I told her, well, I'm more hopeful than I should be.

This particular fish pool likes brevity, so I kept it to pop-up book format rather than a novel, LOL! See ya out there!

how would you do that "sit in a nutshell" thing? i mean, i think the largest nutshell is the maldives coconut and the inside diameter is like less than 15 inches, which is about 2 1/2 inches smaller than your coach class airline seat, which has a cushion and still gives me a sore butt. are you some kind of contortionist or zen master or something.

anyway, welcome, and i will pos rep you for luck...and check out the nice people in the link on my sig line.

do you have some specially molded prosthetic butt or something? that would be kinda cool...

you're weird. people don't sit in nutshells. are you the devil?

 

[Jason1977]

how would you do that "sit in a nutshell" thing? i mean, i think the largest nutshell is the maldives coconut and the inside diameter is like less than 15 inches, which is about 2 1/2 inches smaller than your coach class airline seat, which has a cushion and still gives me a sore butt. are you some kind of contortionist or zen master or something.

anyway, welcome, and i will pos rep you for luck...and check out the nice people in the link on my sig line.

do you have some specially molded prosthetic butt or something? that would be kinda cool...

you're weird. people don't sit in nutshells. are you the devil?

Speaking of nutshells, what in sam hill are you talking about?

 

[Wolfsister77]

Hello and welcome, hope you have fun here.

 

[freedombecki]

After being greeted by the cast of the muppet show and after a few friendly suggestions, I'm introducing myself on the intro-page.

I'm conservative when it's necessary & liberal when necessary. I'm not hot or cold, black nor white. Yes I have opinions, but what I mean is I'm not an absolutist.

I'm for strong but small gov't, strong military, 2nd amendment, gay rights, environment.

My brother is gay. I'm a war vet. I'm pursuing a degree to one day use in the alternative industry. That's where I sit in a nutshell.

Was suspended from a tea party forum today for basically not blindly backing Romney like they asked everyone to do & for essentially having an independent thought process. I like to think I've been accused of having a brain. I think it's funny and showed my fiancee what it was that got me suspended & she said, well, what makes you think any other political forum will let you think for yourself. I told her, well, I'm more hopeful than I should be.

This particular fish pool likes brevity, so I kept it to pop-up book format rather than a novel, LOL! See ya out there!

Welcome to USMB, Jason1977. Hope you enjoy the boards.

 

[Ancient lion]

welcome

 

[samlevy]

Hello everybody .... Higher education is always be helpful