Bill O'Brien prefers wet wipes because of the moistness. He even carries them with him to use in public bathrooms, where he likes to use a bunch of the because he thinks it's funny when they clog up the toilet.
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Bill O'Brien crashes wedding receptions and asks the hired wedding photographer to take a picture of the couple that shouldn't be there like he's absolutely clueless to the fact that it's a private event
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Bill O'Brien spent significant amounts of time in the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. He thinks making comic books into dark musicals is a good idea.
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Just looked at rotten tomatoes. Oof. Was hoping it would be good after the success of the first one (but to be fair, rotten tomatoes wasn't too kind to that one either).
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Bill O'Brien is the guy in your escape room party who insists he is awesome at puzzles and then spends 20 minutes trying to put together an 8-piece triangle and won't let anybody else help. Idiot.
Oh, and Fuck Matt Ryan.
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Bill O'Brien doesn't take conversational hints, and thinks your "Mmm-hmms", "Ohs", and "Yeahs" are all indicative of your continuing interest in the conversation.
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Sadly, I know a farmer that worked with a panel company to determine what crops would grow well under the panels. They found a lot of crops would do well, but 90% of the solar companies don't want any farming to happen near their panels.
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It's an apples/oranges comparison. Commercial buildings and parking lots don't provide sufficient surface area to build utility-scale solar power plants. Enough for on-site/community use, sure.
Some quick napkin math with stats off Google... total US electrical generating capacity is ~1.2 million MW's. With current tech, you need about 10 acres to host 1 MW solar. If you were to replace the entire US electrical generating capacity with solar (extreme assumption, this would never happen), you'd need 12 million acres. That's only 1% of the 1.2B acres (USDA stat) total land dedicated to ag use in the US.
Besides-- if a farmer wants to lease some of his ground to host solar + diversify income streams, who's to say he can't or shouldn't do that?
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I have solar panels on my house and not only was my power bill $0 all summer, but I actually made a couple hundred bucks off credits for power I generated in excess of what I consumed.
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I have a couple of co-workers with electrical panels. One sized the solar system when all their kids were still at home. They generate excess most months. Regardless of how much excess they sell back they get a bill for transmission fees, etc. from AEP.
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I too have solar panels... I live in Phoenix... let's just say they do NOT pay for themselves from June-October. I'll leave it at that. No stronger sun in america, but when its 115 the dual ACs run 24/7. My electric bill is legit even WITH solar.
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This is where I'm at with solar. Not in Arizona, but I did enough research to figure out that even with excess generation, you still have to pay the fees to the power company, and you have to pay back the cost of the solar panels. So unless you have the money to outright buy them from the solar company, you're just putting the same, if not a little more money in a different bucket.
The best part is when I ask the door to door solar salesmen that since my house/roof faces due east/west will my panels catch enough sun when it is at its highest point to generate an excess of power? Then I pull out the solar map on my phone....
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I looked hard into it as well. Also not in AZ, but I live in a state with a good solar resource. Economics just didn't pencil out for me. Return period was too long. Maybe electrifying heating and cooking would improve the #'s, but I'll be damned if I'm giving up my gas stove!
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I designed my new house to be optimum alignment for solar generation. Even ran a spare conduit from the attic to the electrical room in the basement. That said, I haven't bought the panels yet. So far my highest bill has been $255 a month during the worst of summer to cool a 3600 sf house.
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This is fact. I live in a small town outside of NOvA. I did some Biz Dev work for a solar company trying to build out a national size sales team. I conducted sales efforts in residential, commercial and nonprofits.
In short, the payback models are designed by using aggressive Y/Y power utility rates that show significant ROI over a 20 year period. I told the CEO that every prospective client will look at this rate increase assumption and point this out, thus getting a not so good feeling in their belly. Happened every time BTW.
The cost to install a solar array was just way too high to consider.
Even though monthly power bills are going up we're still aren't talking about a large recurring bill. So, the offset, even at 100% isn't all that much money "saved" per month. Thus not that exciting to plunk down or worse, finance the amount to acquire.
Even the nonprofits who access to grants that covered a large chunk of the outlay would say the price for asset acquisition was too much even with the accelerated ROI shown in the business case.
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Had a BlueRaven rep talk to us this spring (just before I replaced the roofs on the house and garage). I ultimately said no because they were claiming an unnamed, state (Virginia) government program I'd never heard of would "essentially pay for" the cost of the panels ($30k+) and that the solar company had a roofing contractor crew that would replace my shingles, too. But then couldn't give me the name of the roofing contractor.
I'm curious if you feel like you could recommend the company you used. Seems like it's an industry rife with scammers that deliver on their promises just often enough.
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We used Ion Solar, and I feel like they were honest with us. They said our panels would cover about 65% of our power costs and that's about right on average after a year and a half. There was a federal Solar credit that was like 10K and they were straight with us that the pricing was based on the assumption we'd invest that into paying down the financing on the panels (about 30k).
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Bill O'Brian is one of those pricks that cold calls you every other day asking you to install solar panels or comes by the house ringing the doorbell to ask you it.
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Bill O'Brien is a real jag who takes women dahn the lahnge for Wednesday Wing Nights and buys them too many Crahn and Cokes and then tries to get them to come dahn the haus.
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Bill O'Brien thinks it was a great idea to go for a 4th and 1 from shotgun when his team had scored three straight times and could've punted and pinned us deep while our offense had fallen asleep for an entire quarter.
Wait actually -since he is an opposing coach, that's actually a 'lovin' on " post lol.
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Bill O'Brien has a butthole on his chin
OB graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Bill Belichick school of punchable faces.
Bill O'Brien wants to change his name to Bill Co'Brien so his initials match Boston College's
Bill O'Brien thinks the orientation of a toilet paper roll doesn't affect performance, and no further discussion is needed on the topic.
Well, if true, he is right on that one.
Bill O'Brien thinks that Isaac Newton discovered gravity via observation of toilet rolls.
Bill O'Brien prefers wet wipes because of the moistness. He even carries them with him to use in public bathrooms, where he likes to use a bunch of the because he thinks it's funny when they clog up the toilet.
By gawd, that's senjohnblutarsky's music.
Bill O'Brien thinks backsplash feels good.
Bill O'Brien is backsplash
Bill O'Brien pees on your leg and calls it "backsplash".
This must be why his nickname is "The Teapot"
(source: Wikipedia)
i thought it's because he is short and stout
Bill O'Brien crashes wedding receptions and asks the hired wedding photographer to take a picture of the couple that shouldn't be there like he's absolutely clueless to the fact that it's a private event
sorry your wedding got crashed
Appreciate it GGC, it's all good. In the grand scheme it didn't ruin anything and we got a funny story out of it!
Is this a true story?
It may or may not very closely resemble a real event
Bill O'Brien made me look at the schedule to figure out what team he coached.
Bill O'Brien spent significant amounts of time in the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. He thinks making comic books into dark musicals is a good idea.
Just looked at rotten tomatoes. Oof. Was hoping it would be good after the success of the first one (but to be fair, rotten tomatoes wasn't too kind to that one either).
Bill O'Brien's no-spin zone stops here.
Bill O'Brien thinks Lamar Jackson would would have twice as many MVPs and Heisman trophies if just stayed in the pocket.
Bill O'Brien isn't Steve Addazio.
He also isn't a dude.
Bill O'Brien also thinks Jeff Jagodzinski is a stand up guy and not a complete and total sleazbag.
Bill O'Brien doesn't even know who "Jeff Hafley" is
Who?
Jeff Jagodiasncjcxdklj is a real jagoff.
Bill O'Brien knows Lane stadium has lights, downplays how cool LED would be.
Bill O'Brien is the guy in your escape room party who insists he is awesome at puzzles and then spends 20 minutes trying to put together an 8-piece triangle and won't let anybody else help. Idiot.
Oh, and Fuck Matt Ryan.
Oddly specific...
Bill O'Brien has 2 first names with an 'O' in the middle.
Bill O'Brien eats diapers.
Bill O'Brien wears depends and he eats them after he takes them off
Bill O'Brien's middle name is Oren. His good friends call him BOOB.
Bill O'Brien doesn't take conversational hints, and thinks your "Mmm-hmms", "Ohs", and "Yeahs" are all indicative of your continuing interest in the conversation.
Bill O'Brien hung out with Doug Hamlin in college, thinks he's a real stand up gy
Bill O'Brien thinks VT should have more appreciation for Matt Ryan and his accolades
Fuck Matt Ryan.
Bill O'Brien moved to the country next to a working farm and complains about the smell and noises.
Fuck that guy, Bill O'Brien thinks solar panels of prime farm land is better than on top of commercial buildings and parking lots
Sadly, I know a farmer that worked with a panel company to determine what crops would grow well under the panels. They found a lot of crops would do well, but 90% of the solar companies don't want any farming to happen near their panels.
This farmer wouldn't be in Wythe county would they?
Actually Rhode Island.
It's an apples/oranges comparison. Commercial buildings and parking lots don't provide sufficient surface area to build utility-scale solar power plants. Enough for on-site/community use, sure.
Some quick napkin math with stats off Google... total US electrical generating capacity is ~1.2 million MW's. With current tech, you need about 10 acres to host 1 MW solar. If you were to replace the entire US electrical generating capacity with solar (extreme assumption, this would never happen), you'd need 12 million acres. That's only 1% of the 1.2B acres (USDA stat) total land dedicated to ag use in the US.
Besides-- if a farmer wants to lease some of his ground to host solar + diversify income streams, who's to say he can't or shouldn't do that?
I have solar panels on my house and not only was my power bill $0 all summer, but I actually made a couple hundred bucks off credits for power I generated in excess of what I consumed.
I have a couple of co-workers with electrical panels. One sized the solar system when all their kids were still at home. They generate excess most months. Regardless of how much excess they sell back they get a bill for transmission fees, etc. from AEP.
I too have solar panels... I live in Phoenix... let's just say they do NOT pay for themselves from June-October. I'll leave it at that. No stronger sun in america, but when its 115 the dual ACs run 24/7. My electric bill is legit even WITH solar.
This is where I'm at with solar. Not in Arizona, but I did enough research to figure out that even with excess generation, you still have to pay the fees to the power company, and you have to pay back the cost of the solar panels. So unless you have the money to outright buy them from the solar company, you're just putting the same, if not a little more money in a different bucket.
The best part is when I ask the door to door solar salesmen that since my house/roof faces due east/west will my panels catch enough sun when it is at its highest point to generate an excess of power? Then I pull out the solar map on my phone....
I looked hard into it as well. Also not in AZ, but I live in a state with a good solar resource. Economics just didn't pencil out for me. Return period was too long. Maybe electrifying heating and cooking would improve the #'s, but I'll be damned if I'm giving up my gas stove!
Sales Guy: We have been installing solar panels for a bunch of your neighbors here and...
Me: Which neighbors.
Sales Guy: A bunch of them
Me: Which ones so I can talk to them about how it is working
Sales Guy: ummm
Me: Have a nice day (closes door)
I designed my new house to be optimum alignment for solar generation. Even ran a spare conduit from the attic to the electrical room in the basement. That said, I haven't bought the panels yet. So far my highest bill has been $255 a month during the worst of summer to cool a 3600 sf house.
This is fact. I live in a small town outside of NOvA. I did some Biz Dev work for a solar company trying to build out a national size sales team. I conducted sales efforts in residential, commercial and nonprofits.
In short, the payback models are designed by using aggressive Y/Y power utility rates that show significant ROI over a 20 year period. I told the CEO that every prospective client will look at this rate increase assumption and point this out, thus getting a not so good feeling in their belly. Happened every time BTW.
The cost to install a solar array was just way too high to consider.
Even though monthly power bills are going up we're still aren't talking about a large recurring bill. So, the offset, even at 100% isn't all that much money "saved" per month. Thus not that exciting to plunk down or worse, finance the amount to acquire.
Even the nonprofits who access to grants that covered a large chunk of the outlay would say the price for asset acquisition was too much even with the accelerated ROI shown in the business case.
Had a BlueRaven rep talk to us this spring (just before I replaced the roofs on the house and garage). I ultimately said no because they were claiming an unnamed, state (Virginia) government program I'd never heard of would "essentially pay for" the cost of the panels ($30k+) and that the solar company had a roofing contractor crew that would replace my shingles, too. But then couldn't give me the name of the roofing contractor.
I'm curious if you feel like you could recommend the company you used. Seems like it's an industry rife with scammers that deliver on their promises just often enough.
We used Ion Solar, and I feel like they were honest with us. They said our panels would cover about 65% of our power costs and that's about right on average after a year and a half. There was a federal Solar credit that was like 10K and they were straight with us that the pricing was based on the assumption we'd invest that into paying down the financing on the panels (about 30k).
Bill O'Brian is one of those pricks that cold calls you every other day asking you to install solar panels or comes by the house ringing the doorbell to ask you it.
Bill O'Brien is the worst coach named Bill on the coaching tree he sprouted from.
B.o.B won't even pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
Good lord does this reference take me back. Bravo haha
Bill O'Brien thinks all games should be on Thursday night so the hating on threads are shorter.
wouldn't they just start on fridays?
Potatoes O'Brien blew a 24-0 lead against the Chiefs
Bill O'Brien spells Bryan wrong.
Bill O'Brien is a real jag who takes women dahn the lahnge for Wednesday Wing Nights and buys them too many Crahn and Cokes and then tries to get them to come dahn the haus.
Bill o brien helped penn state stay relevant after the scandal. And f him for that
Bill O'Brien says "you too" when you say "That'll do it" when ordering at a drive thru.
Bill O'Brien is actually convinced that lunar panels are the best up-and-coming source of energy and totally worth your investment
Nice one GGC. You got an out loud laugh out of me-
I mean, it's just reflected solar. He's thinking around corners. Wait til he tells you about his great idea for 7 minute abs.
Hey man, they blow 8 minute abs right out of the water.
Bill O'Brien only has one expression and it's a stupid face
Bill O'Brien thinks 1st & 20 is a better position for his defense to be in than 2nd & 13 .. when down multiple scores late in the 1st half.
Bill O'Brien thinks it was a great idea to go for a 4th and 1 from shotgun when his team had scored three straight times and could've punted and pinned us deep while our offense had fallen asleep for an entire quarter.
Wait actually -since he is an opposing coach, that's actually a 'lovin' on " post lol.
Bill O'B.'s caller ID location displays as "United States" and he never leaves voice mail.