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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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Wed, 9 May 2001 14:43:57 GMT
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Congratulations. Try being without power for 3 days in the middle of a blizzard
in January. :-/
Do they give you any advance notice of specific outages (like: we're dropping
power to your house from 6:00pm to 8:00pm)?
Steve
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello wrote:
> For the second time I have now been victim of California's rolling
> blackouts. The first experience was a few months ago at home, and now today
> 5/8/01 here at work. For those of you not experiencing this wonderful
> phenomenon, it really sucks! This is just the tip of the iceberg, what is it
> going to be like come July or August when power demand is really high due to
> high temperatures? Our idiot govenor Gray Davis has done nothing but spend
> one billion dollars to buy power, this is the equivelant of puting a
> band-aid on a bazooka wound. All the stupid politicians out here can seem to
> talk about is price caps. While I am sitting here in the dark, I would be
> willing to pay a few bucks more to actually have consistant power. Here at
> my work we are a website, so we just shut down for about an hour. Granted
> this all seems somewhat trivial in the face of other global issues, but this
> problem was preventable if our predicessors had even bothered.
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> Here are a few key facts:
> 1. In the USA, California is dead last in energy production per capita 50
> out of 50
> 2. In the USA, California is first in conservation per capita.
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> Believe me the solution is not conservation, we are doing that. The answer
> is also not to blow the entire budget on state run power. I doubt a
> realistic motion to impeach govenor Davis would amount to anything by next
> year, but I sure hope the next guy does a better job.
>
> And here I thought I did not live in a third world nation.
>
> Scott
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| (...) blizzard (...) The California Independent Sysytem Operator monitors the state's power grids, and if they project that demand will exceed supply they issue a power alert (these come in Stages 1-3-- I believe a Stage 3 is the worst and (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) blizzard (...) Yup! We don't have rolling blackouts, we just have ice storms that bring the lines down. I live out in the woods on a well. When I have no electricity, I have no heat and no water. We do love our wood stove when that happens. (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| For the second time I have now been victim of California's rolling blackouts. The first experience was a few months ago at home, and now today 5/8/01 here at work. For those of you not experiencing this wonderful phenomenon, it really sucks! This is (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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