I can vouch for the blackouts. It was 118 on Saturday and 117 on Sunday and our power was out. We had been keeping the air-conditioning at about 82, and conserving energy, but because of where our house is located, they shut off the power. It really has nothing to do with who is conserving and who isn't. It has everything to do with location. Certain power grids that have street lights on them aren't turned off, but any grid without "public" use is turned off.
118 degrees? Wow. Where are you located? Southern CA or Arizona?
My God, be careful.
Seems to me that California better get busy drilling off shore and building refineries along the coast to deliver all that power plants to run the electricity out there.
Yep. Also, grids that house fire stations, hospitals, or convalescent hospitals are usually exempt from the rolling blackouts for obvious reasons.
The streetlight thing, as I understand it, is limited to major thoroughfares. They don't want to shut down power on 6 lane expressways, but don't have any qualms with shutting them down in a residential area.
Street lights! Talk about wasting power. What is the point of street lights on cul-de-sac streets. I don't get it.
I read an interesting article about rolling blackouts a while back on WSJ. It was during the time of the big blackout in the Northeast. Basically the article said that there is no way of shutting off power based on importance. Kids playing video games get cut off along with elevators trapped between floors. Why isn't there a system to cut off non-critical systems only, like entertainment systems, and leave refrigerators running, or air conditioners in homes with children or elderly? We need a scapel but we only have a meataxe.
Man, I thought we had it bad here in Fresno! It was 113 yesterday and my house cannot keep up with this heat! We have our AC set at 84 and the temp still climbs to 89 before it starts to come down. But I won't even compare that to 118 and no power.