The Electricity is Free, as Long as You Pay for the Power

What would be your say to an offer by someone (or a company) who comes to you with a proposal that you find logical enough and hard to refuse?

Say this: A representative of a company comes to your house and offer you to pay his company a cheaper rate (or at a preset price) of what you pay for your electricity bills (to TNB) -- and all you have to do is sign an agreement for his company to set-up some photovoltaic solar panels on your roof and chargers in your house for free. And this agreement would last up to 20 years or according to your needs.

The good news is that you only have to pay the average cost of energy the year they install the panels. 

So, basically, it costs you nothing. You pay the same amount (or cheaper) for the energy as you paid for the dirty energy from the your local electricity supplier (TNB), and you're sheltered from price increases.

This is what is happening in the United States now.

A company in Colorado Citizenre, came along with this idea and is offering to put solar panels on your house at absolutely no cost. But, those solar panels will not be yours. Just sign up for their 25 year plan, and you don't even have to put down a security deposit! 

The deal is you get to use the green power from your solar panels, but you have to pay the company for it. Continue reading here.

Another start-up company in the US SunEdison also made this offer to a US electronics and office supplier Staples.

Staples find that it couldn't refuse the offer — employing a financial model that could give solar the edge it needs if it's to provide a significant portion of the world's energy.

Under SunEdison's plan, Staples would get solar panels on its retail rooftops at no upfront cost and without any monthly equipment fee. Instead, it would agree to pay SunEdison a preset rate for the power the panels generate over a period of 20 years.

Jigar Shah, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, SunEdison

Staples has now installed about 10 megawatts of solar capacity at more than three dozen sites — the equivalent of 2,000 typical household solar installations.

The advantages of SunEdison's plan go beyond the monthly savings relative to the cost of grid electricity, in that it also eliminates the typical risks of ownership. Staples doesn't have to worry that the panels will underperform or be damaged. "If our solar system is a lemon, then you don't have to pay," says Jigar Shah, SunEdison's founder.

Continue reading here

I hope our TNB or any local independent power supplier would do a research and start a project on this soon. As compared to what they're getting in the US, there's so much sun here and we're not making full use of it.

Related articles: Solar House/Solar Energy System

Making A House Solar Panel

Whoever eats chilli knows its spiciness

The above title is actually a proverb translated literally from the Malay peribahasa: 

Siapa yang makan cili dia yang terasa pedasnya   

A close translation to the proverb is: He who ate chilli will feel the heat.

Some identical proverb from the English lexicon with the same meaning might be:

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.  

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.  
--HALIBURTON, Thomas C.

Another way of putting it would be: Those among us who are not guilty would not raise their hand (admit) by showing that they are angry, but even though they did not raise their hand, the guilt would be too overwhelmed that the conscience show in their faces or by their responses.

So, whenever a person who is guilty replies to another person's doubt or question, like for example he asks: SIAPA BUAT SALAH NI?....and a guilty conscious person will answer: DEMI ALLAH SAYA TAK BUAT...or MASYA ALLAH, DEMI ALLAH YANG MELIHAT APA YANG HAMBANYA LAKUKAN.... or the like, whereas the person was not called or accused yet, then it is highly probable that the person who answers in the way is guilty.


Allah knows best.

Golden-voiced homeless man gets job after video viral

Best story of the day.

Ted Williams today

Ted Williams, 53 -- the homeless man with a golden voice says he is 'thankful to be here'

Panhandling only days before appearing on MSNBC TODAY, Ted Williams expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support he’s received since becoming a YouTube sensation, and says he’s found “a new sense of spirituality.”

Just watch the Today videos:

here and here


But according to The Smoking Gun, the homeless-man-turned-Internet-sensation has a rap sheet that includes theft, robbery, escape, forgery and drug possession. The Brooklyn native has at least six mug shots.

Homeless Man with Golden Voice Has Criminal Past

In an interview Thursday on the Today show, Williams admits he got heavily caught up with drugs and alcohol. "My life went to pits," said Williams, who also discussed his criminal record on the morning show.

Williams said he grew up in Brooklyn, and at 14 took a field trip to a radio station. While there, he was struck by the fact that one of the on-air announcers looked nothing like he sounded.

“Radio is defined ‘theater of mind,’ ” the announcer told him.
Williams was hooked. He said it took years to develop his voice, and he also went to school for training.

“Alcohol and drugs — and a few other things — became my life,” Williams admitted, but added that he has “been two years clean.”

Humaniversity: Is the heart part of 'human capital'?

Spent the morning to witness Tan Sri Dato' Profesor Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, USM Vice Chancellor's annual speech plus two other related functions at Dewan Budaya today.

The report in my other blog:

Humaniversity: Is the heart part of 'human capital'?

After the speech there was a promo talk on a new telecoms product and Internet service by the CEO of YTL Communications, Mr Wing K. Lee (pic left).

And after that an MoU signing ceremony between USM and YTL Communications. YTL was represented by YTL Managing Director, Tan Sri Dato' Francis Yeoh.

What's the best age to have children?

From the Daily Mail UK

Britain's top maternity doctor has called for school children to be taught that the best age for a woman to have a baby is between 20 to 35.

Dr Anthony Falconer

Dr Tony Falconer, the new president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, says women must be 'better at resolving the conflict' between their careers and family life.

He warned against the growing trend for women to have children later as they concentrate first on their careers, insisting it harmed fertility and would lead to conception problems.

'There's no doubt that between 30 and 35 is the time to have your children. We are building up a difficulty for ourselves as a society by people's expectations that they will wait until they are older. That's a very complex issue and it is a problem.'

Nicole Kidman, at 41 had daughter Sunday Rose

Many women increasingly leave having children until their late 30s or even 40s despite the higher health risks, encouraged by older celebrity mothers such as Madonna and Nicole Kidman.

Ever more sophisticated medical techniques mean many women rely on fertility treatment or IVF, believing they will still be able to conceive despite their advancing years.

But Dr Falconer issues a dire warning for would-be older mothers, saying: 'Reproductively, tragedies can result as a direct result of later motherhood...

'The incidence of tragic outcome and sadness will be more common the older the mother is.'

He warned that changes of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth were around 30 per cent for a 40-year-old mother and 40 per cent for a 45-year-old.

Dr Falconer suggested informing school children about the risks of later motherhood would help teenage girls realise that it is not adviseable to put off having children for too long.

'When you're educating children about contraception and teenage pregnancy... you might tag onto that what the best age is to have children. As a 15-year-old girl, when you're doing your GCSE preparation, it might just sow a seed for them if you give them information at that stage that the best time to have children was 20-35.'

In the same interview, Dr Falconer warned that mothers giving birth at night are being put at risk because junior doctors with lesser experience are on duty.

'Obstetric care isn't the same at 3am as it is at 3pm, and it should be. This is a matter of huge concern,' he told The Guardian in his first interview as RCOG president.

'Care overnight isn't as robust as it is at it is at 9am or 2pm. It's not as good. At 2am, you do not have the same experience. One of the ironies of the health service, and this view is shared by very senior people, is this culture that the NHS basically runs at one level for 40 hours a week, and at a completely different level for the rest of the week. And when you are dealing with acute services that shouldn't happen.

He added: 'I don't want to frighten people and say that the quality of care at 2am is appalling, but it's not the same level. At night-time things go awry more often than they do in the daytime.'

Dr Falconer says more senior doctors should work overnight in hospitals

The Department of Health said there should be no difference in the quality of NHS maternity care.
'All mothers should expect consistently excellent maternity services, no matter what the time of day or night,' a spokesman said.

'Local maternity services should ensure there are appropriate numbers of professional and support staff, and staffing levels should be reviewed and audited annually.'

Dr Falconer is one of the UK's leading figure on women's health issues. He has worked as a consultant for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust since 1986, and he was the lead clinician for gynaecological oncology and colposcopy services at the Trust from 2000 to 2007.


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