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re: lowe or home depot?
6 mar 2003
jitney wrote:
>jasmin483893@yahoo.com (jasminkip) wrote:
>> is lowe's price lower than home depot's?
>the prices at both are roughly comparable. lowe's has better product
>selection in my experience, you are more likely to find what you need
>in one place. hd is run by bean counters, if an item doesn't move at a
>certain rate, they won't carry it.
agreed. our new lowes has a lot more stuff on the shelves than hd, but
not enough skylights...
>from: "zomeworks corp."
>to: "'nick pine'"
>subject: re: sola tubes frugal???
>date: wed, 5 mar 2003 11:05:09 -0700
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>nick,
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>i visited the new lowe's near our house. 120,000 square feet and not a
>skylight. so they gobble up how much power on summer afternoons? 200,000
>watts that could have come from skylights? but the solatube is more like a
>light catheter than a skylight.
>
>sincerely,
>steve baer
direct sun might be 8k footcandles, and a lumen is 1 fc/ft^2, so we might
have 7.2k lumens passing through a square foot of glazing with 90% solar
transmission, vs 750 lumens for the 13 w cf in my hand. looks like a sola
tube attenuates sun by 10x...
nick
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