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| Cooking right along; record power usage | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 28 2011, 09:51 AM (145 Views) | |
| big al | Jul 28 2011, 09:51 AM Post #1 |
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Bull-Carp
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Noticed this news release and found it of some interest - that's a lot of power...
I suspect a few other records may have been set during the recent heat bubble. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| ivorythumper | Jul 28 2011, 11:42 AM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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wow, and no brown outs? good power management system on the grid! |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Jul 29 2011, 11:22 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Newsman said it was 89 in Pittsburgh around 1pm today. My car said it was 101. I know 89 and I know 101. It was 101. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 29 2011, 10:41 PM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Still dips down into the 40s here at night. And with a total lack of insulation or central heating that means that with my P.O.S. space heater, I can warm my room up to a toasty 51 or so. It's the high ceilings that make it impossible to warm the place up. It's an old school Victorian house so it has high ceilings and a bed that sits on on raised stilts. It's so high up because back when the original residents still used the coal fireplace on the opposite end, they didn't want to die of carbon monoxide suffocation in the middle of the night so they raised the bed well up from the floor. The nice thing is that I have a great huge down comforter that's fantastic for staying warm. So fantastic, in fact, that you overheat and build up a nice sweat, unless you play the game of trying to ventilate the covers by awkwardly positioning yourself throughout the night. In the morning (well okay, I wake up 'bout 11:30 to noon usually) I'm all clammy, more often than not. And my room's still pretty cold by then but it's about 68 degrees outside so I just go outside, warm up and dry out in just a couple minutes. It's all just stupid. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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