Sean DEpagnier
12th July 2011, 07:56
I need a little help here because I have so many neighbors around who just don't get it! Sure they all have solar panels and wind generators, but they have diesel engines and gas generators too.
I live on a sailboat in pago pago harbor in american samoa. I got here a week or so ago, and I was the only sailboat to sail in. Everyone else drops their sails 3 miles out then motors the last 3 miles. I was also the only sailboat to do this at the last place, and the only one to raise my sails right after I raised my anchor on the way out. I ask them why, and they say "because we have an engine" It doesn't make any sense. The wind is blowing and they are gonna have to sail anyway. Why delay it by an hour? Their reason is stupid. The wind is blowing in the perfect direction so they didn't even need to tack. Their mind frame is broken, and I need some advice on how to be more convincing.
Then, sure they have solar panels. Maybe even a wind generator (or 4). I have 600 watts of solar panels and a 400 watt wind generator 1000 amp hours at 12v on a 27ft boat. I cook with electric power. I motor my boat on electric.
These people all cook with gas motor with diesel. That is what people did 40 years ago, they need to get with the times! They all run gas generators because they have a pitiful array of <200 watts of solar panels. Even the guy with 4 wind generators and a 2000lb battery bank cooks with gas and has 2 diesel generators. I have more solar panels than anyone else and I am the smallest boat. I tell them that it's great they have solar panels, but they just need to get more of them. They say they don't have anywhere to put them. They have a big enough boat, they could fit them, but they don't want to. I tried to sell them solar panels at $2 a watt and they won't take. Too expensive, or some other excuse.
Some of them even say that say they hate terrorists. They wouldn't hesitate to kill a terrorist. Yet they have a gas generator they run everyday. The only reason there even _are_ terrorists is because the fact that americans like them are burning way more than their fair share of oil in the world. They are funding terrorists every time they buy fuel. How am I supposed to deal with these people? Attempt explain why they are incorrect? That doesn't seem to work.
I think it is a mindset problem but I'm not good with changing peoples minds. I want to help but I don't have any money. I realize this is a small problem surrounded by much larger ones, but I want to at least get some of my neighbors to be liberated. Is there something I can do or say? Or should I just do my best to ignore them and deal with my own problems?
I live on a sailboat in pago pago harbor in american samoa. I got here a week or so ago, and I was the only sailboat to sail in. Everyone else drops their sails 3 miles out then motors the last 3 miles. I was also the only sailboat to do this at the last place, and the only one to raise my sails right after I raised my anchor on the way out. I ask them why, and they say "because we have an engine" It doesn't make any sense. The wind is blowing and they are gonna have to sail anyway. Why delay it by an hour? Their reason is stupid. The wind is blowing in the perfect direction so they didn't even need to tack. Their mind frame is broken, and I need some advice on how to be more convincing.
Then, sure they have solar panels. Maybe even a wind generator (or 4). I have 600 watts of solar panels and a 400 watt wind generator 1000 amp hours at 12v on a 27ft boat. I cook with electric power. I motor my boat on electric.
These people all cook with gas motor with diesel. That is what people did 40 years ago, they need to get with the times! They all run gas generators because they have a pitiful array of <200 watts of solar panels. Even the guy with 4 wind generators and a 2000lb battery bank cooks with gas and has 2 diesel generators. I have more solar panels than anyone else and I am the smallest boat. I tell them that it's great they have solar panels, but they just need to get more of them. They say they don't have anywhere to put them. They have a big enough boat, they could fit them, but they don't want to. I tried to sell them solar panels at $2 a watt and they won't take. Too expensive, or some other excuse.
Some of them even say that say they hate terrorists. They wouldn't hesitate to kill a terrorist. Yet they have a gas generator they run everyday. The only reason there even _are_ terrorists is because the fact that americans like them are burning way more than their fair share of oil in the world. They are funding terrorists every time they buy fuel. How am I supposed to deal with these people? Attempt explain why they are incorrect? That doesn't seem to work.
I think it is a mindset problem but I'm not good with changing peoples minds. I want to help but I don't have any money. I realize this is a small problem surrounded by much larger ones, but I want to at least get some of my neighbors to be liberated. Is there something I can do or say? Or should I just do my best to ignore them and deal with my own problems?