The Las Vegas Stardust will not go away!!! Solar Lamp Update

click on images to enlarge STOP PRESS. Las Vegas, NV, Sunday March 30, 2008, 1:55 p.m.

L.E.Fant of Las Vegas accused of misleading populace regarding Stardust photograph.

L.E. has been much maligned by Ray the Las Vegas Idiot (self confessed).http://lasvegasidiot.com/

On this occasion the Idiot takes exception to L.E.'s use of the adjective "shortly" when L.E. used that word to describe an image of the Las Vegas Stardust taken "shortly" before its implosion.

L.E. offers the following statement as clarification and rejection of the Idiot's claims:

"A “Roy of Las Vegas” (apparently the self confessed Las Vegas Idiot) commented that L.E.’s recently posted photograph of the Las Vegas Stardust shortly before implosion” was a misnomer as L.E. incorrectly used the adverb “shortly.” He further asked when the photograph was actually taken and asked who is L.E. kidding.
The subject image was captured on 10/31/2006 at precisely 7:08:06 PM by L.E.'s camera. The Las Vegas Stardust implosion occurred on 3/13/07, some five months later.
L.E. believes and, therefore, argues that “shortly” is a subjective term. He further argues that the subject five months period relative to the fifty years or so of the Las Vegas Stardust’s existence is “in a short time, in the near future or soon” as defined by many trusted dictionaries of the English language. Therefore, L.E. Fant of Las Vegas’s use of the word “shortly” in this instance was correct and is wholly supported by the above persuasive argument even for the more pedantic of L.E.'s superior readers.

SOLAR LAMP UPDATE:

L.E. Fant of Las Vegas is excited regarding the good news contained in this update!
The “tuned up” solar lamp is back on station. Apparently an abnormality occurred with its microprocessor which limited its output. The lamp was resurrected on Friday and has been performing in a stellar fashion since.
The light output is now increased eightfold! The actual reading is now 180 foot candles, which reading was previously approximately 23 foot candles. By comparison a two mantle gas lamp (with both mantles intact and burning) was tested to output 130 foot candles with the same meter. The “new” lamp throws a white patch of light onto the sidewalk and provides sufficient light to illuminate a person/vehicle on the closest lane of the adjacent road. Of course the community is further illuminated when individual owners switch on their carriage lamps-making a safer environment.
As the output of the solar lamp is greater than that of the existing gas lamp and the solar lamp supplies that output throughout the night, with a reserve capacity for cloudy days, it is definitely a serious contender to replace existing gas lamps. Particularly as the gas company has removed their prohibitive “capping” charges.
L.E. congratulates the local Las Vegas manufacturer of these lamps and is proud that his community was selected by them to participate in this trial.

POLL RESULTS:

60% of respondents claim a Pacman score of above 3,000. L.E. applauds their efforts!

http://www.freepacman.org/welcome.html

NEW GAME:

This one is indeed a hoary (note spelling Ray and his tribe, perhaps check a dictionary) old chestnut: http://www.playedonline.com/game/1130/Tetris.html

L.E. will provide his L.E. Fant of Las Vegas’s Easy yet Extremely Tasty Chicken Piccata for Two (Less than 30 minutes from start to eating) recipe tomorrow!!!

NEW VERY IMPORTANT POLL TOMORROW

Solar and Pulled Pork

This is one of our existing gas lamps, photo taken same time as that of solar lamp from yesterday's post.
Last night's (or more correctly early this morning's) review by a friend suggests that the level of illumination provided by the solar lamp was less than that of the gas lamp (or at least insufficient) after it was run for 7 or 10 hours.
Perhaps an adjustment will correct that perception or we may consider additional lamps to compensate. Additional lamps may still be cost effective yet will require a longer amortization period. We shall investigate and report.
NOW TO PULLED PORK
http://lasvegasidiot.com/ provides us with a sign which depicts an advertisement for "pulled pork sandwich..." One usually associates "pulled" with ropes, rail freight cars, horse drawn buggies and similar. Why "pulled pork?" L.E. is not aware of the existence of "pulled cow" (again, other than by rope and definitely not a sandwich). Also L.E. is unaware of"pulled fish," or "pulled chicken," other than a pullet. Why are these animals being discriminated against? Why can only pigs be "pulled."

Solar lamp with gas lamp in background

Here is a pic of the solar lamp with a gas lamp in the background for comparison (taken around 7:00 p.m.). First impression is that the solar lamp is brighter than the gas lamp. L.E. will attempt to make comparison by viewing the lamp early morning.
As noted the potential savings by using solar street lamps is enormous both in nonrenewable energy and nasty emissions (of course saving approximately $1,600 per month (at current pricing) also makes great justification).

L.E. Fant fights back!

The first of hopefully many solar powered street lamps being installed (these high tech lamps are designed and manufactured by a local company). These lamps have the promise of saving many thousands of Dollars which are currently being expended on gas to fuel L.E. Fant's community's existing street lamps. A further bonus is that greenhouse emissions will be eliminated by using this type of lamp. Our existing gas lamps remain burning fuel 24 hours each and every day which is surely, if nothing else, extremely wasteful and unnecessarily adding to our greenhouse gas emissions.
L.E. Fant will report tomorrow on how the lamp performs in comparison with the gas lamps.