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    Solar Power

    By Anonymous, Created on: 29/03/2005, Last updated on: 31/03/2015

    » I dont understand why Thailand is not using the sun which is there 365 days/year. Can anybody tell me ? I am in the process of building a house but when it comes to solar energy i might have to import myself to only then be confronted with a high import tax on such products. And that while closing...

    • Anonymous commented : Besides applications for household or electricity generation in rural areas, does anyone have experience with solar energy in industrial applications in Thailand? I am interested in energy cost savings for my chemical plant. What are the savings/return on investment? Which companies offer solutions?

    • drake commented : Renewables are so overrated. If you paid attention to what went in to the process of manufacturing for all the components, be it photo-voltaic or wind or hydro, you wouldn't call it [i:aa94gqii]environmentally friendly[/i:aa94gqii] Metals - strip mining. Plastics - oil. Solar Cells and other electronic components - toxic chemical process. Fiberglass and epoxies are technically toxic. And none of that is really [i:aa94gqii]renewable[/i:aa94gqii], is it ? But I digressed. Except for passive solar (building) designs and hot water heating, solar takes up too much money and space for what part time power it provides. The mirrors or panels must be constantly cleaned or the efficiency degrades. Doesn't work when it's cloudy, doesn't work when it rains or snow, or blowing sand/dust. It's expensive to start up and ROI takes 20 years or more, often times never. Great for places with a lot of unusable space and not much cloud, rain, or sand/dust storm. Not that I don't like the technology or anything. I'm just saying that solar has inherent issues that may never be resolved no matter how much tax money is thrown at it. One spring weekend 2 years ago I went to Doi Chieng Dao. A beautiful place with the view of an entire valley below, trees a blooming, flowers everywhere. There was a small solar array feeding a battery bank and inverter to power the park facility at the top. At this elevation, the fog often envelopes everything until noon. We pitched our tents and, after dinner, all of us were having a rather pleasant evening snoring away until.... at Zero effing dark hundred, in the dead silence of the effing night, the god effing loud enough to wake the effing dead '[i:aa94gqii]battery bank voltage is low[/i:aa94gqii]' alarm went off and stayed on until someone shut it off around 8 AM. Good thing I took my iPod along. Nobody else got any sleep however.

    • hawaiiman commented : People are so strange! they like to use power all odd hours of day or night. They want their beer cold whether the sun is out or not, if ManU is on at 1:00 am, they want to watch it, etc They talk about being eco friendly, and then put in a system that requires lead acid battery back-up. Sorry, I know most of these points have been covered. My point? Uhhh.....wait...Oh Yeah! LFTR technology! It was developed at Oak Ridge in USA in the late 50's and a working plant was in operation for 10 years. This technology is so safe and stable, they could just turn the thing off Friday evening and switch it back on Monday morning. It uses low pressure fuel, so no hydrogen or steam explosion like in Japan and no chance of meltdown like Chernobyl. It recycles it's own fuel, so instead of 5-7% utilization like current plants, it uses above 99%, so no long term waste. Fuel is Thoreum which is common in the earths crust, and doesn't require the whole centrifuge complication to purify it (chemical rather than isatopic purification). So why didn't we go with it? The powers at the time were into making nuclear bombs and it is no good for that, unlike the systems we see today. Why don't we change now? GE and other heavy hitters make a good chunk of change selling nuclear fuel. Who is smart enough to do it? Chine (yup) sent a team to Oak Ridge and copied the existing files from the previous reactor and research. They will have first plants online in less than 5 years. With wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, you have to put the plant where the source is, then power lines to where the users are. Line loss 10%. LFTR can be small plants near the users.' Nuff said

    • KelvinSim commented : [quote="drake":3cwdnfyu][u:3cwdnfyu]Renewables are so overrated. If you paid attention to what went in to the process of manufacturing for all the components, be it photo-voltaic or wind or hydro, you wouldn't call it [i:3cwdnfyu]environmentally friendly[/i:3cwdnfyu] Metals - strip mining. Plastics - oil. Solar Cells and other electronic components - toxic chemical process. Fiberglass and epoxies are technically toxic. And none of that is really [i:3cwdnfyu]renewable[/i:3cwdnfyu], is it ? But I digressed. Except for passive solar (building) designs and hot water heating, solar takes up too much money and space for what part time power it provides. The mirrors or panels must be constantly cleaned or the efficiency degrades. Doesn't work when it's cloudy, doesn't work when it rains or snow, or blowing sand/dust. It's expensive to start up and ROI takes 20 years or more, often times never. Great for places with a lot of unusable space and not much cloud, rain, or sand/dust storm. Not that I don't like the technology or anything. I'm just saying that [url=http://www.shinesolar.net:3cwdnfyu][color=#000000:3cwdnfyu]solar panels[/color:3cwdnfyu][/url:3cwdnfyu] has inherent issues that may never be resolved no matter how much tax money is thrown at it. One spring weekend 2 years ago I went to Doi Chieng Dao. A beautiful place with the view of an entire valley below, trees a blooming, flowers everywhere. There was a small solar array feeding a battery bank and inverter to power the park facility at the top. At this elevation, the fog often envelopes everything until noon. We pitched our tents and, after dinner, all of us were having a rather pleasant evening snoring away until.... at Zero effing dark hundred, in the dead silence of the effing night, the god effing loud enough to wake the effing dead '[i:3cwdnfyu]battery bank voltage is low[/i:3cwdnfyu]' alarm went off and stayed on until someone shut it off around 8 AM. Good thing I took my iPod along. Nobody else got any sleep however.[/u:3cwdnfyu][/quote:3cwdnfyu] Solar panels are not easy to operate.. With increased taxes and rate of installation it has turned out to be an expensive option..

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    About Face.

    By Sean Moran, Created on: 14/10/2008, Last updated on: 13/04/2014

    » One olde axiom that comes to mind is, '[i:3b539sim]If you can't say something nice, then keep your mouth s.h.u.t.[/i:3b539sim]' Just a thread that pertains to one of the cultural differences one might notice in venturing from a typical 'westernised' society of the assertive kind to the shores of...

    • ThiaLieLand commented : This concept is all about not the art of NOT taking responsibility for your actions.. I put a bad chemical in your food so I can make more money but hey, no one embarrass me by saying this out loud . Look at 1-2 go ,, " Foreigners" made the plane crash. Unbelievable No wonder China can't make a quality product.

    • 61 replies, 76,687 views

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    Western fast food

    By Pranot, Created on: 02/07/2009, Last updated on: 29/07/2009

    » Today Western fast food is popular because there are many branches of this food everywhere and it is comfortable to buy and eat them. In my opinion, we should not buy Western fast food for three reasons: First, Western fast food is expensive. It has less quantity because a raw material in production...

    • Jason McDonald commented : o much salt, sugar, and added chemicals. Does anyone know if western food served in Thailand has MSG added to it? But I do like fast food western and Thai. The difference is in the west the fat and meat are ground together so you can't tell that there is any fat; in the Thai case the fat is not hidden and can be clearly seen, but people eat it anyway.

    • sai commented : Khun Promat you wrote Finally, package of Western fast food is environment pollution. Many people always throw packaging away after take it already. This package has a chemical substance will effect to the ecosystem I not see so many boxes from KFC-Pizza Hut-or Mac Donalts in the street but so many foam boxes and bags from Thai food. Not a attact to Thai people I'm Thai to but most of them its lazy go 5 meters to rubbish collector .Put in the streat or anywhere

    • 22 replies, 521,558 views

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    Stop hunting for ‘foreign’ scapegoats

    By bobbyd, Created on: 15/08/2009, Last updated on: 17/08/2009

    » This piece is just hypothetical gossip. The writer says “the recent spate of news on proxy ownership”. Recent spate means journalist decided to jump on the issue of foreign scapegoats because it stirs the waters in a rather dull news week. Writer: Sanitsuda Ekacai Published: 13/08/2009 at...

    • 1 replies, 3,497 views

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    Climate change

    Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 05/01/2010

    » You will struggle to find anyone who has not heard the terms "climate change", "global warming" and "greenhouse effect". Recently, there was a climate change conference in Copenhagen. It was attended by many world leaders, who sadly didn't achieve much in the way of future reductions of carbon emissions. But what exactly is climate change? Let's explore the question.

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