On the other hand, it's less effective demand management when we're talking about running residential heat pump loads. Sure, thermostats can be changed a bit but the load can't be deferred entirely until there's less pressure on the grid.
My take on the Griddy thing is that it's pretty neat that residential customers can access spot pricing, but allowing naรฏve people to use it for their primary electric is problematic. Suitable regulation might allow it but only for secondary garage electric meters or something.
In fact, the theory is that spot price buying is perfect for demand management, and this theory holds true with knowledgable customers who watch the price carefully and are quite flexible about energy use (eg, can delay charging their cars or other discretionary uses).
@schmangee I would suspect a job situation that leaves two partners commuting in opposite directions with no good solution but maybe thatโs just my own experience biasing me.
@JasonT I used to think clowns werenโt real but once when I was a teenager I was driving on Nichols Rd on Long Island & stopped at a traffic light and a hatchback with two clowns in full getup on board pulled up next to me. It was in fact a small car. The driver was smoking a cigarette.
When I was out on paternity leave, still in Boston, and killing time on the weekdays I took the older kid into school I was desperate to capture a video like this. Unfortunately the second new train only ran a few days at that time. I'm loving seeing it now!
@Theophite Our house has something like this in one of the third floor offices and itโs because itโs cantilevered above an oddly shaped bay window front, and underneath the benchy part thereโs just... outside.
@sandypsj That's still only enough generations to have people alive or recently dead who worked in them, I think ultimately it would still decline (also depends on how much cross migration into/out of the region). Or still have some level of nostalgia but really view it as history only, ..
@mjg59 @sweharris How do you handle delaying some of the signals so it doesnโt get mushy? Or is there enough audio attenuation between each room that it doesnโt matter? Iโm most familiar with PA systems where itโs easy to tell how to delay but in a house the listener is moving around...
@Sorcyress Topologically that armor protects from what... like people underneath attacking upwards from below? It's on the bottom! I don't understand. It's like the skid plates they put on the bottom of off road trucks to protect the oil pan.