5 Pages Tagged “electricity”
Blog Posts
- Electrical Breakdown (the other kind)
You’d think demand would be highest during the hottest part of the day, but it’s early evening, when people are getting home and turning on their own air conditioners. Just as solar is fading.
- CA Prop 16: Are You Serious?
There are several things about Proposition 16 (on tomorrow’s California ballot) that just make me say, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” 1. The ad campaign is horribly misleading. They’re promoting it as “Your Right To Vote,” but it has nothing to do with your right to vote. I guess “Making it hard for local […]
- Powerless at the Mall
How an outdoor mall dealt with a lunchtime power outage. And some Apple observations.
- Vote Earth?
Turning your lights off for an hour to raise awareness for…global warming? That seems like an odd fit. And what will an hour of darkness accomplish?
- Lightning Symphony
I was looking up the proper term for a plasma lamp and stumbled upon the Wikipedia entry for the Zeusaphone. It’s a Tesla Coil that’s set up to modulate its discharges so that they produce specific notes. In other words, it’s a Tesla Coil that plays music using lightning! Seriously… how can you turn down […]