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Poor Orangefella…Mr. Pence has pretty much thrown him under the bus.
“Mother†raised a good husband after all.
Maybe... or he might have decided that his only possible move in politics is to go Un-Trump.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
74°? Are you kidding me? You need to turn that thermostat down to about 68 and if you are still cold put on a sweater or some sort of hoodie fer chrissake!
Either that or take up ice fishing on Green Lake. Back when I was a child (there you go again) with the hyperbole..,living in Green Lake it froze half over. I am sure now it never gets a smidgen of ice. But I would not know is I have not lived in Seattle for 20+ years.
Ya sure..ya betcha!! Spud Fish and Chips! Never mind...,,Ivar’s.,,,Keep clam…
My electric bill was $68.10 for the January dated invoice, but only $43.20 for the February dated invoice.
The thing is, I was keeping the heat off in December and turning it on when I got home. In January I thought I'd let the house stay at a comstant temp all day - even if I am not home.
Turns out keeping the heat at constant temp is more cost effective than wide temp extreme. Seems counter intuitive to being cost effective by keeping the heat on all day when not at home.
My electric bill is very confusing. They send a bill every month that shows me incurring some charges, but I still have a credit from all the solar power I feed back to them. So it always ends with how much they owe me and says "Do not pay". Funny thing, it's fairly stable over the year because we use a little bit of air conditioning when it's really hot, and some electric heat when it's cold.
I "think" I heard the Solar team at work say that Cali isn't allowing people to sell THAT much energy back to the utilities any longer. If I remember, I'll ask about it next week. I remember hearing a conversation about that last year. If that is the case, you must be grandfathered in
I am grandfathered in to some extent, but I chose to run a credit rather than get a check at the end of the year. We keep trying to burn up all our propane so we can have the tank removed, since all we use propane for now is cooking. When that happens, I have some induction burners ready to use. They are much more sophisticated than gas burners, like so much control you could practically do sous vide on them. Or leave a teflon pan on one of them all day without burning it up. They also heat a saucepan faster than a big gas burner, which is hard to believe but I saw a video on YouTube! I also have an electric convection oven that can cook two 15" pizzas, or anything we need to cook.
So when we finally run out of propane, our electricity use will rise a bit. It might not though: I'm getting a new flash electric water heater tomorrow that lets you set a maximum temperature so it can act as a booster. During the winter, our cold water comes out of the ground cold enough this wattage water heater can only raise about 1 gallon per minute to comfortable shower temperature. But I'm going to build a very simple solar water heater to keep a 250 galloon IBC of water at about 90 degrees. This will have no direct contact with our domestic water. The IBC stores heat, not water. The domestic water will flow through a bunch of PEX tubing inside the IBC to preheat the water heater input. That should lower the water-heating power use quite a lot.
The company I work for is about to put its first building in Maine. Not so fast says the city council where the building is being located. What's this here gas station? What's your plan when most of the cars are electric? Come back when you have a plan that addresses future needs.
Can electric cars even be charged quick enough (5-6 mins) to get up and go another 300 miles?
