Comments on: Real Goods: We Took a Workshop at The Solar Living Institute http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/ Hacking Everyday Life. Exchanging Notes on Survival. Compost, Vermicompost, Biofuels, SVO, Green, Solar, Electric Vehicle, DIY, Gardening Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:18:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: cheryl http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-23609 cheryl Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:17:58 +0000 http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-23609 I have to correct the speaker. People in Arizona do NOT pay $2 or any amount to park in the shade, ever. The only places people pay for parking are in downtown multi-story parking structures, where the only solar panel placement would maybe be on the roof. That or parking meters on the downtown streets, but those don't have shades built over them. There are also a few uncovered, for-pay lots downtown. Arizonans are highly resistant to paying for anything related to their cars including toll roads. People will pay for parking if there isn't any free parking nearby, but I doubt they'd pay extra for shade. So making that concept a reality would have to be presented as "you pay for parking, and as a bonus it's covered parking that is generating solar power for the city that lowers costs for taxpayers." I have to correct the speaker. People in Arizona do NOT pay $2 or any amount to park in the shade, ever. The only places people pay for parking are in downtown multi-story parking structures, where the only solar panel placement would maybe be on the roof. That or parking meters on the downtown streets, but those don’t have shades built over them. There are also a few uncovered, for-pay lots downtown. Arizonans are highly resistant to paying for anything related to their cars including toll roads. People will pay for parking if there isn’t any free parking nearby, but I doubt they’d pay extra for shade. So making that concept a reality would have to be presented as “you pay for parking, and as a bonus it’s covered parking that is generating solar power for the city that lowers costs for taxpayers.”

]]> By: ryanne http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-23186 ryanne Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:29:29 +0000 http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-23186 hey andrew! our teacher assured us that most of the vehicles were street legal, if done properly though most of the people at the DMV, judging from other people's stories, don't quite know what to make of them! hey andrew!

our teacher assured us that most of the vehicles were street legal, if done properly
though most of the people at the DMV, judging from other people’s stories, don’t quite know what to make of them!

]]> By: Andrew Venegas http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-23132 Andrew Venegas Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:11:33 +0000 http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-23132 Cool vid. I'm wondering if building your own electric is street legal yet, or if you have to take your chances like a lot of the biofuel conversions. Cheers! -Drew Cool vid. I’m wondering if building your own electric is street legal yet, or if you have to take your chances like a lot of the biofuel conversions. Cheers!

-Drew

]]> By: ryanne http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-22980 ryanne Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:41:48 +0000 http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-22980 hey sharuk yeah, it's hard to cover the whole subject in one session. jay and i are thinking of joining some electric car meet ups in our area to get some more knowledge. but you seem to be thinking along the right lines- if gas gets higher, we'll all be riding bikes, no doubt! cheers! thanks for the comment hey sharuk
yeah, it’s hard to cover the whole subject in one session.
jay and i are thinking of joining some electric car meet ups in our area to get some more knowledge.
but you seem to be thinking along the right lines- if gas gets higher, we’ll all be riding bikes, no doubt!

cheers!
thanks for the comment

]]> By: Sharuk http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-22869 Sharuk Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:14:11 +0000 http://ryanishungry.com/2007/07/06/real-goods-we-took-a-workshop-at-the-solar-living-institute/#comment-22869 I don't think that you can sum-up how-to build electric cars in one session or lecture. If electric cars are cheaper, faster or average rating then I would definitely buy one but big oil mafia don't want that to happen so 4 bucks a gallon is only choice. If the price of gas keep rising like this then I would end up on two wheel bike. eh! I don’t think that you can sum-up how-to build electric cars in one session or lecture. If electric cars are cheaper, faster or average rating then I would definitely buy one but big oil mafia don’t want that to happen so 4 bucks a gallon is only choice. If the price of gas keep rising like this then I would end up on two wheel bike. eh!

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