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Alodielle
Fifth day in a row the goddamn electric company has shut off our air for their new "Energy Saving" initiative. Why the hell did they think it was most appropriate to do this during the one heat wave we'll see all year, rather than spreading it out evenly across the rest of the year?!
Aug 13 2012 01:55 PM
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Alodielle
Yes, but "fuck my electric company" is so much more concise than "fuck the infrastructure and all those that support it and came before it that led it to be such an abysmal disappointment."
Aug 13 2012 02:21 PM -
Grid inter-connectivity is a real problem in Southern Cal, you have very few excess MWatts that are available outside of your local generation area, and everything in Arizona/New Mexico is spoken for. They could build new natural gas peakers, to run the dozen hours needed for grid stabilization, but they'd need some serious Clean Air Act permit because you're in a severe nonattainment area, and the cost would be huge for the construction. Better demand storage, but you have almost n...
Aug 13 2012 03:23 PM -
no opportunity for hydrostorage. Also, California has done some fossil fuel/Green House Gas commitments, and that limits your choices. Have you thought of a personal solar unit?
Aug 13 2012 03:26 PM
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