Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Sweltering ...

The heat here is stunning - about 95F and very humid in the day. Even when the sun goes down, temperatures cool very slowly to 80F at midnight. Why do I know that ? Because the power went out yesterday from around 3PM to about 11:30PM. Sleeping at 80F and humid is a lost art for me. I discovered a flaw in my summer survival plans. The generator circuits do not run my air conditioners. Ughhhhhh.

I have to get the electricians in here to fix that - at least for part of my bunker. Otherwise I'll have to prepare to survive these events on pads & sleeping bags in the deep parts of the bunker - aka the basement. The concrete floor & walls make that very cool.

Why was the power out so long ? The power company says problems with overhead lines, BUT the real reason is high demand surprising them. When power demand stretches and pushes supply to the very edge, any small problem gets magnified greatly. That's what happened here yesterday. By today I hope the power company will have obtained more power from outside the region, or restarted some peak power plants.

By the wind, for wind power advocates ... there was no wind yesterday.

This is why my blog is sparse today - I overslept, making up for the poor early night's sleeping conditions.

Word of the Day

"Concitation" - noun [$1000] archaic, used in T. S. Eliot's poem, "Gerontion".
"Concitate" - verb [$1000] obsolete, rare
"Concite" - verb [$100]
Concitation means stirring up, rousing or exciting; agitation, excitement, esp. of the mind.
Concitate means to stir up, rouse, excite.
Concite means to excite or stir up [appears to be a spelling alternative for concitate.] The word seems to come from "con + cite", with the "cite" root based on Latin citare and the root "cite" relies on old usages of that word meaning to summon or call, rouse to action. The "citation" for military gallantry used this meaning.
Sentence: If a few more days of this poor power service occur, public concitation for better power supply might reach critical point. The power companies should focus less on wind, etc. and more on new natural gas peak power plants and nuclear base load plants. Those are proven to be reliable.

19 comments:

Spin-em said...

Bunk may I suggest a couple of solar attic fans for the Bunkmansion...laugh in power failures face....you'll even find you wont need AC on many days because those fans at no extra cost, release the heat build up thats has no place to go but down in your living area......4 screws in the roof for small solar panel,caulk...4 in attic plug in..EZPZJAPNEZ...Mantis could do it

using less with little effort is going green ya know..lol

Frosty said...

oh pooooorrrrrrrrr baby...cut the air, take the bunker in a cake walk...check...where's my index cards, anyone have a pencil.

mfl59 said...

somewhere Mr Alan Gore just puked on himself...

Frosty said...

Spin great idea...Bunk, get the servants that swarm the bunker grounds on that asap.

Bunkerman said...

uh Spin ... solar doesn't work at night.

My roof has vents, btw.

Bunkerman said...

It's an interesting idea, though - might save some AC money all day long.

Maybe Homer or Lowe's sells those.

Spin-em said...

ura real fn piece of work bunk...gfy...looooooooooool

Spin-em said...

sorry Mrs B

Bunkerman said...

the old attic fan is broken, but wouldn't have helped anyway with no power.

Hmmmm ....

Maybe Sunboy has a point ... there's a use for solar power after all ...

;)

Frosty said...

MVPMVPMVPMVPMVPMVPMVPMVP...it's over Mike...better luck next week...my face hurts.

mfl59 said...

Mr. Alan Gore applauds you....

Spin..."Captain For Life"

Frosty said...

krypto and sky with the rye chuckle dastardly and muttley style.

Frosty said...

Doug Kass: The Market Has Gotten Way Too Pessimistic, And This Is The Bottom...picked up another beefer reader nonposter I see.

Bunkerman said...

there are thousands of those, frosty

Frosty said...

toss Krypto another milk boner on me...I needed today...good girl Krypto.

Bunkerman said...

good doggie, Krypto. here's a biscuit from frosty.

Frosty said...

Bunky did you ever believe for a second that lord humongous had any chance against mad max sir.

Bunkerman said...

lol, frosty ... nope.

Bunkerman said...

hmm maybe I should re-watch that movie again soon.