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To: Mephisto who wrote (3901)	2/8/2001 4:58:44 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6089

Mephisto, Definition of an optimist... a British resident with solar panels on the roof. For those who haven't experienced our climate... think Seattle, but with less mountains to block the wind. Over 20C (about 68F) is sunbathing weather; peaks over 25C (about 77F) for more than two days make a heatwave. That's in summer. Agreed with you on the long-life bulbs, I'm almost entirely converted and I think the bills are becoming smaller. You know that you also get very good savings by switching TV, video, computers etc off properly rather than leaving them on standby...? The amount of electricity saved thus is surprising.

To: Mephisto who wrote (3901)	2/8/2001 6:42:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6089

Yeah, my measures are more Draconian than that. I've got (used and owned for 10 years) a set back thermostat. I've already pretty much turned off my heat at night and have never kept the house at 70 unless the kids were sick. At perpendicular incidence, at the equator, in summer, we get almost about 1000 W/m^2. About half of that at northern US latitudes. Excluding coastal Washington and Oregon, that means we are running over with kilowatts. I'd like to see everyone have a personal generator. In computer science we gave up mainframes (the analog of centralized power) 20 years ago. We've got to do the same with power generation IMO. I still use remote computer power but I am self-sufficient today if the Internet goes down. This model has worked well with computers. It should work well with power as well. I see the grid as SUPPLIMENTING my power needs, not providing my basic needs.