JetPack Rating System: EntryPoint Solar Workshop

Doug Snodgrass

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I once again present the JetPack Rating System™, my effort to help humanity cope with its collective disappointment over the broken promise of personal jetpacks, the Sean Connery-era James Bond standard of cool.

To recap, the JetPack Rating System™ is used to not only begin the healing process, but also for rating automobiles, buildings, technology, etc. by a duel criteria: 1. How environmentally-friendly are they? 2. What would James Bond think of them?

Today, we JetPack™ the EntryPoint solar workshop.

EntryPoint is an American company that installs thermally sealed decorative doorglass into existing doors. In addition to the obvious benefits of added indoor sunlight and aesthetic appeal, the non-removed sections of the door remain and are therefore not wasted.

EntryPoint's technicians handle the doorglass replacement on-site in mobile workshops that are each equipped with a solar panel and a Blue Sky Solar Boost 2000E charge controller, which provide the electricity for the power tools and lighting.

Team Jetpack sez:
Entrypoint's solar-powered mobile workshop
There's a major Q alert here. For those of you who are still boning up on your 007 Speak, the late great Q was the creator of the excellent Bond gadgets, including the JetPack. Q's gadgets were cooler than Cracker Jack prizes, Walt Frazier and the Banana Splits.

Combined.

Q was seen primarily in his workshop and on the rare occasions that he traveled outside of his workshop, he would do so incognito. So it would stand to reason that a mobile workshop - with solar power - would have served his purposes well.

The only potential downside is that if Q were to use the mobile workshop to install a decorative glass door in the front entrance of 007's space-age bachelor pad, the ladies would of course be once again rendered helpless should James decide to use his new transparent doors to provide them with the eye candy of our favorite secret agent in his undershirt, boxers and black dress socks.

JetPack Rating? 4 JetPacks (out of a possible 5)

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