Missing from your otherwise excellent post is any mention of conservation, which could play a critical role in stabilizing electricity demand. I assume readers of this Substack have already replaced all their incandescent bulbs with warm spectrum LEDs; if not, shame on you! Turn off the lights when you leave the room, set your a/c thermo…
Missing from your otherwise excellent post is any mention of conservation, which could play a critical role in stabilizing electricity demand. I assume readers of this Substack have already replaced all their incandescent bulbs with warm spectrum LEDs; if not, shame on you! Turn off the lights when you leave the room, set your a/c thermostat to a few degrees higher, and for the sake of nature ditch those outdoor lights!
Aeons ago, when I was a kid my folks set the thermostat to 68 in the summer and 72 in the winter. So: the range 68-72 F was deemed comfortable. As an adult I wonder why this practice is so common, and why we don't simply reverse it. Think about that! Full disclosure: In our household the thermostat is set to 76 days/73 nights in summer and 62 days/60 nights in winter, but we are all in good physical shape and enjoy sticking it to the effing fossil fuel (FFF) industry.
Indeed. As the very blunt and frank Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, has put it, no one even pays attention to the first "R" of the three "R's": reduce, recycle, reuse.
Missing from your otherwise excellent post is any mention of conservation, which could play a critical role in stabilizing electricity demand. I assume readers of this Substack have already replaced all their incandescent bulbs with warm spectrum LEDs; if not, shame on you! Turn off the lights when you leave the room, set your a/c thermostat to a few degrees higher, and for the sake of nature ditch those outdoor lights!
Aeons ago, when I was a kid my folks set the thermostat to 68 in the summer and 72 in the winter. So: the range 68-72 F was deemed comfortable. As an adult I wonder why this practice is so common, and why we don't simply reverse it. Think about that! Full disclosure: In our household the thermostat is set to 76 days/73 nights in summer and 62 days/60 nights in winter, but we are all in good physical shape and enjoy sticking it to the effing fossil fuel (FFF) industry.
Indeed. As the very blunt and frank Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, has put it, no one even pays attention to the first "R" of the three "R's": reduce, recycle, reuse.
(Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/magazine/ayana-elizabeth-johnson-interview.html)
While the change to renewables is great, it often comes with the basic assumption that renewables will simply let us keep on keeping on as we do.
good points!
That’s what our family is doing summer: 76 days/73 nights; winter: 62 days/60 nights.