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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...

    • NodBad commented : with a bit of marketing every factory owner and many private individuals in the country would want one? I have long felt that the solar solution should be to ditch NASA levels of tech and certainly to abandon Photovoltaics until the price drops by 80%. The answer is to make concentrating units (mirrors) as cheap and scruffy as is necessary to make them economical. I've built accurate parabolic troughs with school kids. A sheet of bendy mirror board, some scrap timber a tape measure and a pocket calculator hits the spot. Phillips made portable stirling engine generators in the 50s at affordable prices. They need have little more technology or cost than a lawnmower engine. ECC seemed to be approaching the ideal I'd dreamed of but are sat on their knowledge. Go on; someone rowst 'em up and buy one and publicise it. I dare ya! links: http://www.netmeter.org

    • rickyward commented : must first be registered as a factory, a process which takes many months. Little wonder hotels and condos do not bother, but also it is clear that factories do not as well. So write to Mr Prayuth, I suggest ,and insist he open the field up and remove import duties while he is about it.

    • Anonymous commented : because there is no expensive factory where they can collect corruption payments. To get the energy out of biomass, you need a gasifier connected to a generator. This is a simple technology which can be readily understood and adopted by every mechanic in Thailand. You don't need an expensive investment. I cringe whenever I see people concentrating on solar power from PV cells. Peak oil is here today and we can't afford wasting time on this. If we want to make a meaningful contribution to a renewable energy future, biomass is the only thing that will work. It can be scaled up massively, immediately, and at a fraction of the cost of PV cells. If you want to be energy independent, buy yourself several rai of land, plant fast growing trees, buy a commercial gasifier from India (because nobody in Thailand makes them), connect it to your generator, and you have a cheap and effective energy source. It is always available, and you can grow it as necessary without worrying about importing expensive PV cells. True, you will have to harvest and chip the wood every day, but lets be realistic, you need the excercise anyway. This is the best solar power solution available today. And the most reliable.

    • 58 replies, 163,778 views

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    The fact of dowry in traditional marriage

    By Anonymous, Created on: 21/05/2006, Last updated on: 21/10/2007

    » I want to set the record straight about the dowry in Thai traditional wedding ceremony. There are so many talks in this forum regarding the dowry that I found it very disturbing and I want to correct the attitude of those who believe that paying dowry is to pay the price for having Thai wife. By...

    • Anonymous commented : ife. My wife worked hard in a factory for 12 years where she worked her way up to supervisor level. We try to understand each others differences but in the end, it is the fewer similarities that help hold us together. Where there's a will, there can be a way.

    • 18 replies, 404,259 views

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    Sin sod and in-law

    By Anonymous, Created on: 13/09/2006, Last updated on: 25/12/2008

    » I supported my gf through colleage and Uni (her parents are not rich), now that she has graduated, i wanted to marry her. But her parents are asking for 1Mil Baht for dowry. I had the money through hard earned savings (i am just a salaried worker), but i find the dowry excessive. I am afraid this...

    • Pragmatic commented : In reply to abc,i hope this does not fall under the sensors pen,so i shall refer to Common Prostitutes henceforth.It must amaze you abc as a well to do Thai,how Ferrangs wed these Prostitutes,take them back to the West,and ingraciate them into their Family.The First Step is a Lie,normally." This is Nim,she worked in a Shirt Factory in Bkk".There are thousands of Prostitutes in England,but No1 Son would not take a Brit Bar Girl Home to meet Mom.Could it be if he did,she might recognise Dear old Dad.I think my John Bull style,rests awkwardly on sensitive Thai Shoulders.

    • fred23 commented : as prostitution and grueling factory work. While everyone has to draw the line somewhere, I think it is perfectly appropriate for Westerners to share what they can with their in-laws and even their in-laws' neighbors to the best of their ability. I'm happily married to a Thai woman and, although her family almost never asks for money, I am more than happy to give them what I can because they are sweet people, always treat me well, and work as hard as I do, despite not having as much money to show for it. If you are worried about your money being squandered on booze and gambling, I think it is appropriate to treat the money that you give people as investments, rather than handouts. For example, tell your brother in law that you'll buy him a tractor that he can use to earn future income by plowing his neighbors fields, and that he can pay you back in small installments over a long period of time. I guess my main point is that the fruits of the opportunities that Westerners are born into should be shared with people who were not so fortunate, particularly where those people are friends and family. This kind of attitude will make life more pleasant for everyone.

    • 77 replies, 64,745 views

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    Changes and Effects of Foreign Business Act

    By Anonymous, Created on: 10/02/2007, Last updated on: 27/01/2015

    » The purpose of this act since 1970s, is though no one clarify openly, to protect local industry against the foreign market invasion. Therefore FBA is in fact Domestic Industry Protection Act. Since 1990s of open door policy, Thailand had promoted vigorously FDI - foreign direct investment of almost...

    • Luvtat commented : millions in on building your factory only after certain owner of lands says I don't wish to renew your lease. And they take factory buildings and sell for huge profit. Just think of the business tax and income tax Thailand could pull in from this. Might even learn how to run a business in the global world.Yes have safe guards to protect Thailand but also protect the major investor too. By doing that you would have investors begging to open compaines here . This a great hub area can reach all over by land even to europe.If you don't see that other countries will then you will be left out.

    • 18 replies, 93,164 views

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    where can i buy money tree seeds?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 15/03/2007, Last updated on: 21/03/2007

    » we,ve all heard the word money tree ,this weird and wonderful plant that seems to be owned by nearly all farangs who are married to a thai lady ,her parents, brothers ,sisters ,and all the hangers on his wife calls friends ,well i,m married just to a thai lady thats all ,but i feel i,m being discriminated...

    • Anonymous commented : Hi Colin. Just call the norwegaian prime minister J. Stoltenberg of the Labour party. After poring out billions of dollars (tax-payers money, of course) to Robert Mugabe, Yassir Arafat, Vladimir Putin and all the other dictators of the world he has now made the decicion that Norway (4 mill. people) must donate hundreds of millions to the Peoples Republic of China (1,3 bill. people) to help them clean the waist from their factories. (because we live at the same planet, you know!) If somebody has a money-tree it must be him. Ha-ha-ha! Best regards, Hans

    • 10 replies, 7,151 views

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    how do i live in thailand?

    By Anonymous, Created on: 03/06/2007, Last updated on: 17/12/2007

    » ok so i'm a 24 years old white british guy and i'm going to marry my thai girlfriend here in bangkok. I've now been living here in Thailand since January 2007 on a non-immigrant muti entry visa. However once we get married what will i have to do next to be able to live here? will...

    • Anonymous commented : alise that those who have got factory jobs are very lucky indeed because there are not near enough jobs for everybody. Similar situations occurred in europe at the end of WW2, hungry women had to sell themselves to feed their families, today they do it for different reasons, and most of those who did it in the late 40's would not even think of doing it today. So please have a little heart for bar girls of Thailand today. Thank you. Regards AD

    • Anonymous commented : Every time when I meet a factory working girl or run into some housemaid who has a lovely face and a nice figure, I always ask myself; what a nice pretty girl doing in a place like this ? With their looks, they could be the most popular girl in the entertainment avenues if they choose this route; fast money and easy job. Someone once put it this way.....," If these girls were born into the household that can afford a college level education, they sure would be picked as a drummajorie....." These girls have learned one ultimate value from their parents that, their life with husband and children would be cleared from ' scarlet letter writen on their forehead: "Pu-ying-ha-gin" syndrome. In 5 decades span, my families had sent several of these good looking girls whom we treated them like our family, off to marry some suitable guys. They're leading a happy married life. some became quite wealthy - multimillionair, some became a widow, some whose son has become a famous scholar. They had chosen the hard but morally decent route and the Lord Buddha had blessed them.

    • 42 replies, 18,870 views

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