On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:52:29 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>>> Solar panels.
>>> And when do you *ever* see those in everyday life? ;-)
>> 
>> PV applications today are more common place than we might expect. Domestic
>> burglar alarm systems are now fitted with PV panels to charge the battery for
>> the system. In Milton Keynes, parking meters are powered by solar panels. ;)
>
>LOL! Like I'd know about parking meters - I never go outside, remember? ;-)
>

You've got a car, you go to work, the town centre, shops, church (for the organ
playing). No excuses, please :)

>(Damnit, suddenly I feel like I'm in a Monty Python sketch. "All right, 
>but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public 
>order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what 
>have the Romans ever done for us?")

Solar clocks!
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Regards
     Stephen

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