[Rhodes22-list] Andrew, a confidential comment on your post... (non sailing)(somewhat political)

[Tootle]

Andrew:

One source of information and answers to technical questions is:

http://www.nrel.gov/

And from your original posts, I thought you were going belly up.  

Ed K



Andrew Collins-2 wrote:
> 
> Ed
> 
> What we are actually doing is preparing a whole range of additional
> services, including energy modeling of buildings, which will hopefully
> bring
> in additional business, as well as cutting fees.
> 
> We have never used the credit line to date, but it seemed that it might be
> nice to have it, and poof, it was gone.
> 
> A
> 
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Andrew,
>>
>> You said that I should put in a good word with the Polish government for
>> your contract.  The problem is that when my grandparents left Eastern
>> Europe
>> there was no Poland.  One side came here on Austrian passports and the
>> other
>> on Russian passports that indicated what is today Lithuania.  The surname
>> came from Vilnius, Lithuania.  So best you try for a contract with the
>> Lithuanians.  Even after the Russian repatriations there are apparently
>> some
>> with the original surname in the area.
>>
>> What is interesting about surnames is that there were variations for
>> whatever language was in power and use.  When my grandfather registered
>> for
>> the draft for World War One, he spelt his name two ways on the document
>> and
>> his brother, who was next in line spelt it a third way.  Why would this
>> happen?  Because he spoke and wrote all the languages in use in Vilnius
>> at
>> the time:  Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, German, Byelorussian, Ukrainian,
>> and
>> who knows how many more.  I do not think that he spoke English until he
>> got
>> here, but?
>>
>> I encourage you to sit down and make a business plan that allows you to
>> exist without credit.  You need the challenge.  More importantly, you
>> have
>> to do it.
>>
>> I was asked by a European Business person to access the impact of our
>> economic situation.  I replied that do not expect much resolution in the
>> next 3 or 4 months.  I further told him to plan to exist under current or
>> worsening economic conditions for the next 3, 4 or 6 years.
>>
>> I am sorry but Obama cannot wave a magic wand.  The damage to the credit
>> industry has been done.  It will take years to recover.  Thank Congress
>> for
>> using the credit industry to achieve social goals and not equally
>> demanding
>> oversight and controls.
>>
>> This guy that I commented to does business in Germany and Eastern Europe.
>>  I
>> suggested he make great efforts to find many small local projects, loss
>> of
>> any of which would not destroy his business.  For the next couple of
>> years
>> the object will be survival.
>>
>> I would say good luck, but it will take more than luck.
>>
>> Ed K
>>
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