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Then again, I'd much rather them kill non essential AC/water heaters
vs an entire power circuit /neighborhood/etc in a rolling blackout
situation.  Much less collateral damage when you take out the AC for
two neighborhoods, than when you shut off granny's oxygen generator.


On Nov 23, 2007 10:48 PM, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote:
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> On Nov 23, 2007, at 1:56 PM, David VanHorn wrote:
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> >> There is also a program in
> >> place that installs a thermostat that can be remotely set by the
> >> utility so that on hot days they'll turn off your AC for a short time
> >> to save power.  I think we'll see a whole lot of this stuff in the
> >> next few years.
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> > Another reason not to live in the People's Republic of California!
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> Its spelled Kalifornia.
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> Its one thing to give consumers cash incentives for permission to
> "brown out" their air conditioning or hot water heaters. Its another
> thing entirely for the government to mandate these controls.
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> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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