[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mechman', 'M')ost of us want a bright, happy, safe, clean, comfortable future. There is nothing wrong with that dream, a nice dream.

[jbeckton]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mechman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jbeckton', 'P')eople don't like it but it gets their attention and it usually gets good press, at least every time I watch the news I see 90% of the stories are about murder, crime, or corruption. Why does PO not get the attention that the people that get abducted by aliens for "experiments" get?

[Newsseeker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')ocuments obtained by the Herald show more than 12,000 transformers from Attleboro to Ayer are operating at above 200 percent capacity, with some as high as 900 percent over design standards. Union officials, who last night reached an agreement in contract talks with National Grid, say the overloads are pushing the state’s electrical system to the brink and could lead to widespread blackouts this summer

[vision-master]

It's only the East coast. Good riddens.

[shortonoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newsseeker', '�')��There are no (safety) concerns that I can identify,” said spokesman Ken McDonnell.

[Twilight]

This is why I call bullshit on mass ownership of electric cars.

[shortonoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'T')his is why I call bullshit on mass ownership of electric cars.

[gnm]

I got one for you... I have grid intertied pv with battery backup so I can run independent as well. I see 97-137 volts all the time. I had to widen the base settings for the inverter to even get it to choke down the crap ass line power when it opts for a charge cycle from the grid. My wife called me once and says "the inverters making strange noises" and so I had her read off some of the various monitoring systems. I had to ask her twice on input voltage because it was reading 402volts! I told her "shit! throw the isolation breaker!" And things calmed down immediately. When I checked it later it was back to the usual but a bunch of my neighbors lost appliances and tvs etc...

-G

[fluffy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'T')his is why I call bullshit on mass ownership of electric cars.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newsseeker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')ocuments obtained by the Herald show more than 12,000 transformers from Attleboro to Ayer are operating at above 200 percent capacity, with some as high as 900 percent over design standards. Union officials, who last night reached an agreement in contract talks with National Grid, say the overloads are pushing the state’s electrical system to the brink and could lead to widespread blackouts this summer

[Newsseeker]

Do you guys think we will begin to see rolling and then permanent blackouts soon? Soon being around 2008 when Duncan predicts.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fluffy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'T')his is why I call bullshit on mass ownership of electric cars.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newsseeker', 'D')o you guys think we will begin to see rolling and then permanent blackouts soon? Soon being around 2008 when Duncan predicts.

[pea-jay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'S')o electric cars are not an option except as a novelty item, certainly not in US NE and SW. That unused night-time capacity does not really exist - it is already allocated and in dangerously short supply.

[fluffy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Twilight', 'T')he absolutely worst thing you could do is shift the transportation energy burden onto the power grid. You might as well sell your car, buy a crate of candles and open the breaker.

[SevenTen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fluffy', 'I') suspect that a few large scale blackouts in rapid succession would suddenly mean that funds to replace and upgrade equipment became more available.

[shortonoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SevenTen', ']')As fossil fuel depletion rapes the economy, governments continue to respond with inflationary money printing ... but the money supply itself is abstract, and what the abstraction represents is a shrinking resource base. Shrinking, due to fossil fuel depletion. In relative terms, the farther down the depletion curve we go, the exponentially more expensive it becomes to get anything done that uses fossil fuels and a fossil-fuel-depend system. There is a good chance that in the case of a few large scale blackouts, the resources simply won't be there to turn the power back on, and the blackouts become, as Duncan's Olduvai Theory predicts, permanent.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fluffy', 'I') suspect that a few large scale blackouts in rapid succession would suddenly mean that funds to replace and upgrade equipment became more available.

[lawnchair]

Houston transformer explosion, 17k customers inconvenienced. High temperature today, 80 F? link Gonna be a scorcher this summer.

[Twilight]

That's the most rubbish website design I have ever seen in my life.