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Greetings. This is not simple for me to put into words; please ask what I may be missing to expose properly. For a northern hemisphere latitude chosen as 450 as an average for America, Asia and Europe locations with solar panels. If the solar panels are placed horizontal, as soon as the sun is above horizon, the panels are exposed to direct sun rays. At a very low angle but every day of the year and for more than 12 hours in summer but at a 'lossy' incident angle. There will be a 'bell' curve of exposure peaking at celestial noon, producing a photovoltaic generation of X KWyear. If the solar panels are tilted 450 for optimal exposure, at sunrise above the horizon illuminates the back of the panels producing zero energy until the sun azimuth reaches east and until falls at west to again illuminate the back of the panels until sunset. Am I right in this ? The noon peak is more productive, yields Y KWyear. In winter, the sun hits the panels as soon as above horizon at a more efficient incident angle. The consensus is to install them tilted but am curious about how much detrimental to generation (Y-X) is installing them horizontal. Integration calculus should yield the result but am not capable of performing the operations. Could you ? In other words: how much better is a tilted installation ? Horizontal --> poor angle, more exposure hours in summer. Tilted --> better angle, less exposure hours in summer. Comes from two things... If the photovoltaic generation is for providing heating in winter or cooling in summer. If angling is conveniently justified or not for an existing roof risking windload.

When I make someone breakfast in bed, is it too much to expect a little appreciation, or even just a "thank you"? Lately all I get is a bunch of questions, like "Who are you?" and "What are you doing in my house?"

Many kinds of thinking do not require a framework of words. Using images, or anticipating certain physical movements, is often primary in the arts, and in crafts. And scientists often manipulate visual symbols in a mental space to develop a concept or work out a procedure. And there are ordinary activities, like rearranging the furniture in a room, where much of your planning will be visualization and not needing words. Maybe you could try extending that kind of manipulation of visual symbols to other categories? Like this: instead of making a grocery list, start visualizing the store where you usually shop and where food items are located that you like. Create a mental map of your coming trip and how you will move through the store, using as few verbal labels as possible. (Just an example - don't blame me if a spouse or partner yells at you because you forgot to get the Dijon mustard!)

If Sanna Marin ever chooses to carry on the above tradition, please post here ASAHP.

No, that's not what it means. It means stupefied compliance, because they're unable to think or respond. No culture starts with an idea, any more religion starts with a design. Human culture grows out of chimpanzee culture and then branches out into whatever kinds of human culture best adapts a troop to its changing environment. Along the way, people generate and borrow all kinds of ideas, try out all kinds of organization; keep the ones that work for them, discard the ones that fail; tribes die out through natural calamity or aggression, are subsumed by bigger tribes, intermarry, mingle, form alliances and carry on feuds, converge and divide, explode and implode. What kinds of human each group contains depend on what traits the group values, whom they allow to live, what kinds of person thrives and multiplies and what kind is cast out or subjugated, and what world-view they impart to the young. We know some of where it leads; it's not quite done yet. But that wasn't a "starting condition"; it was a stage in the history of several cultures, each of which brought its own set of attitudes and beliefs from previous tradition. We can each designate arbitrary beginnings and ends to a period we wish to examine or count on, but they're unlikely to be the same lines for any two of us, and they will all be arbitrary. (Even the final one that none of us will be there to draw.) What are "sins"? Why do you want to be "free" from them? How would repentance cure them? It's all quite nebulous and unreal, unless you build a conceptual framework to give those words meaning. Yes. Each religion provides a different framework. So does every philosophy. So does a nation's constitutions or a corporation's "mission statement" (there's a silly name!) a political party's platform or the agenda of a meeting. Each one satisfies a need to communicate the purpose of a shared undertaking. Meaning, it provides you with a framework to lean on. Yes, that's what it's supposed to do. For some people, that's the best support structure, for others, it doesn't work, so they must find a different one. That's what atheists do.

*facepalm* ok, well, I have to apologize for that little outburst - it just caught me at a rough time. Sorry. Ok, on to the humor. No, really, GET ON WITH THE HUMOR OR ELSE! Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI have a stepladder, which is really great and all, but I think it's too bad I never got to know my real ladder. </rimshot>

oh lookie. lets make light of rape. what fun.

Indeed, "It doesn't matter who I vote for, the government always win" - anon. Except, "drugs are bad... mkay" - can't remember the name... But I consider the "Opiate of the people" to be contentment and what better system of governance; almost every culture starts with a good idea and contains almost every type of human, which, scientifically, would mean the quality of the society (happiness etc.) depends on the starting conditions and we all know where the industrial revolution leads. I don't, I just thought it was funny/ironic; in a psuedo-religious thread, getting a revenge neg for a neg inspired by offence. 🧐 Well, some one clearly said it!!! Besides can you please explain what the bad bit's are? Indeed, but you could try listening to them; you do know I'm an atheist, right... 🤔