I was browsing through an outdoor/sporting goods type of catalog
earlier today when I came across an interesting product for home use. It
was a Nature Power brand that was selling Wind Turbines for free
electricity. Yeah, nothing is free, let me tell ya; ha!
Anyway, they suppose to provide you with "extra juice" for your home
or perhaps even meet all of your power requirements if you were a loner
that was stuck in a remote area. The first one they were selling wasn't
very powerful. The thing was rated at 400 watts with a monthly energy
output at 12 mph of only 38 kWh. Well, okay, this must be close to free,
right? Nope. Even this little baby wind turbine costs nearly 400
dollars! Wow, this really blows me away!
The second one illustrated in the catalog looked fairly impressive.
It boasted about its maintenance-free design that would provide years
and years of free service. This one was rated at 2,000 watts with a
monthly energy output at 12 mph of 350 kWh. Hey, they said that was
about 37% of the average household consumption. Not bad, I'll just buy
three of these "free electricity" thingies just to be safe. Oh, they are
over $2,000 dollars each and, well, the inverter is sold separately at
nearly 200 bucks each.
Okay, so I can buy 3 separate wind turbines for about six thousand
and five hundred dollars, plus another 5 or 6 hundred dollars for the
inverters. From there, I should have enough free electricity for my home
by only spending $7,000 dollars total! LOL! But hey, after 4 or 5 years
of using 'em, the electricity would then become free. That is, if the
damn things really did hold up to the test of time. Hmm...
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You will often see these farm-raised swai fillets in the frozen food
section within various grocery stores and supermarkets. Even though they
are a species of catfish native to the rivers of Southeast Asia, it
doesn't taste anything like any catfish I've ever had in America. In
fact, they are basically tasteless! You will often hear people say that
they are really mild and how you can add flavor by spicing up the
breading or adding additional seasoning, marinades, etc., but com'on!
Well, when I say something is mild or bland, I would hope that it would
still at least include some taste, right? LOL!
I'm sure the wild-caught swai (also called iridescent shark) have more flavor than the farm-raised ones, but dang! I would much rather pay the extra few dollars and eat regular channel catfish from around here or some other flavorful fishes that are still fairly cheap like tilapia, pollock, etc. Oh, I've tried to eat the farm-raised swai fillets both baked and fried, but they still came out tasteless every time! Well, there were times that I did taste the breading and a bit of the seasoned salt, but no fish flavor! I suppose I can honestly say that they don't taste bad at all, since they have no flavor. I don't know... Maybe they are experimental fish that have been replicated via some molecular transport machine? Ha-ha!
Related Post: http://perpendicularity.org/blog/2010/08/01/baked-or-fried-what-are-swai-fillets/
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I'm sure the wild-caught swai (also called iridescent shark) have more flavor than the farm-raised ones, but dang! I would much rather pay the extra few dollars and eat regular channel catfish from around here or some other flavorful fishes that are still fairly cheap like tilapia, pollock, etc. Oh, I've tried to eat the farm-raised swai fillets both baked and fried, but they still came out tasteless every time! Well, there were times that I did taste the breading and a bit of the seasoned salt, but no fish flavor! I suppose I can honestly say that they don't taste bad at all, since they have no flavor. I don't know... Maybe they are experimental fish that have been replicated via some molecular transport machine? Ha-ha!
Related Post: http://perpendicularity.org/blog/2010/08/01/baked-or-fried-what-are-swai-fillets/
Image Credit: Creative Commons 3.0 License - Source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridescent_shark
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