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August 20th, 2003, 12:15 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
The actual power use of appliances can be surprisingly different than you expect, but that's a real shocker. Most households that don't use electric heat (a terrible waste of electricity, btw) spend the most on refrigerators as I recall. Lights may not use much individually but add up all the lights around a house and it gets to be quite a bit. Compact flourescents are a Good Thing. But you never know when some little appliance might have a very big appettite...
130 kw a month for COFFEE!? Wow...
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August 20th, 2003, 01:34 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
The Australian media have reported 3 different causes to the black-out.
1 - Lightening - which I think they have now ruled out.
2 - An old overgrown tree snagged a main powerlines that was sagging, which caused a cascading effect tripping the safety switches.
3 - My favourite. A yet unknown terrorist group brain washed a squad of squirrels into making a suicide runs onto the major power lines.  |
August 20th, 2003, 01:40 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
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Originally posted by Erax:
- My wife drinks coffee around the clock. She had an electric percolator which she kept on all day to keep the coffe warm. Doing it the old way - heating water on the gas stove and putting the coffee in a thermos bottle - saved us 130 kWh/month.
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Woooww. I'm impressed. If your wife drinks coffee around the clock, isn't she hyped all the time? 
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August 20th, 2003, 02:01 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
The people in Ohio are now saying that there was a severe current flux prior to the circuit trip they suffered. According to them, it occurred repeatedly for several hours prior to the event. And they are again pointing the finger to the north. They way these guys cover their tails, they must have been politicians in their Last jobs.
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Politics happens in more jobs than just government--and it seems more vicious the smaller the stakes, actually. 
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August 20th, 2003, 03:00 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
200 kwh per month.
I think i could do it. Barely though. I average 15 kwh per day right now.
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August 20th, 2003, 03:53 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
Maybe the U.S. should consider invading itself.
The billions spent fixing Iraq's power and water infrastructure would fix the U.S.' problems.
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August 20th, 2003, 04:29 AM
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Re: Massive Power Outage
I dunno... one civil war was plenty IMO.  |
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