Monday, May 27, 2013

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Borepatch said...

I don't think you can understand the adoption of smart grid without looking at the California blackouts at the end of the '90s. Then, the crazy environmental policies cut buffer capacity to the point where the grid repeatedly failed.

The EPA is pushing the same policies (a bunch of coal plants making up something like 7% of base load) just went off-line. A smart grid lets the grid selectively turn people off rather than have whole areas collapse.

I'm certain that people who contribute to the Tea Party will not be disproportionately targeted.

9:19 AM, May 27, 2013
JD(not the one with the picture) said...

That house looks like the result of someone saying to his builder, "make me one with everything".

9:49 AM, May 27, 2013
Robert Fowler said...

That was when they built real houses. I bet every stud and beam in that one is oak. We bought a old farm house and remodeled it and to drive nails, you had to drill pilot holes. Solid as a rock, not like the McMansions they build now.

I like the witch fences on the roof, cool touch.

10:01 AM, May 27, 2013
Joel said...

You're gonna want to take good care of the giant staff of woodworking professionals you'll need to keep all that gingerbread bright, Tam.

10:08 AM, May 27, 2013
Rob K said...

There are lots of houses in towns like Frankfort, Lafayette, and Logansport that used to look just like that one. People used to have money to spend on that sort of thing. I think they spend it on WoW and Xbox now.

11:09 AM, May 27, 2013
SiGraybeard said...

Smart grid is climbing the Gartner hype cycle now due to a coincidence of useless green energy, NIMBY attitudes about new power plants and, honestly, electronics companies having products to sell.

Smart grid can do nothing about adding energy, all it can do is throttle back areas that are demanding too much, supposedly routing power from areas with surplus to other areas. In the old days, power companies were "all about you" - planning their generation capability for whatever customers wanted. Now it's all about them. So where does the surplus power come from in mid July when the whole country is sweltering and wants their air conditioning? Smart gird will either turn it off or throttle back your A/C. And charge you more for the power, too.

Sorry - pet peeve.

1:10 PM, May 27, 2013
Kristophr said...

Rob K and Joel:

Labor costs did not have a bunch of .gov add-ons back then ... and Middle Class referred to rich professionals and small business owners. People who would be worth over a million dollars today.

1 million 2013 dollars are about 30 to 40 thousand Victorian era dollars. "Middle Class" sounds a bit better than "Thousandaire".

My mother would have fallen into the Victorian Middle Class. And yes, she lives in a very nice large house, and has a maid and a gardener who show up once a week to do the scut work.

1:11 PM, May 27, 2013
Anonymous said...

Robert Fowler,
Said house being in PA, oak is a safe bet. If, however, it were Macon, GA, studs and beams would most likely would be heart pine. Everything else you said would be true.

1:30 PM, May 27, 2013
AMB said...

I agree w/ Borepatch. I wanted to add that smart grids have the ability to improve storage, generation, and transmission efficiency. I worked on some smart grid stuff for metering companies when I was just out of college and some of the reporting, aggregating, and rebalancing trickery they can do is pretty impressive.

Of course, network security was, as it usually is at non-tech companies, Job N, behind a long list of other concerns.

1:45 PM, May 27, 2013
Will said...

For the ultimate Victorian House:

http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/

http://thetruthaboutthewinchesterhouse.com/

2:37 PM, May 27, 2013
Wayne said...

So you can fall down the basement steps of a classy house?

4:21 PM, May 27, 2013
Kevin said...

I'd want Mike Holmes to inspect that house with every technological gadget in his possession before I put a bid in on it.

5:18 PM, May 27, 2013
Thomas Smith said...

Didn't like the lighthouse? It was even free!

7:42 PM, May 27, 2013
Ken said...

There are houses on Route 11 in Berwick, PA overlooking the Susquehanna that approach that'un. They stand out quite a bit from the rest of the place.

7:33 AM, May 28, 2013
J.R.Shirley said...

Good god. That house is...something. At least you'd be close enough to visit regularly.

9:55 AM, May 28, 2013
Owen said...

Springfield MA is full of painted ladies like that one...I lived in one for about 10 years. I ended up being pretty decent at fixing stuff.

1:19 PM, May 28, 2013
Anonymous said...

You'd think twice about that house when the neighbor kid sends something through one of those curved glass windows.

8:40 AM, May 29, 2013
Anonymous said...

So Tam...no one here commented on your 2nd item about absolving Obama's evil White House taskmaster, Valerie Jarrett, longtime member of Chicago's Political Mafia, and close friend of Weather Man terror organization's Bill (mad bomber) Ayres for the supposed comment of "Payback for his opponents" ? Well, referring to a single source, the Right-Wing-Watch Org., an anti-religious attack front organization funded by self-labeled "crazy Lefty" Norman Lear of the ultra liberal People for the American Way, for proof that she didn't say it is not legit. The RWW article never mentioned a verification denial source from inside the Chicago political office, Obama campaign organization, or Valerie Jarrett. It was nothing but an attack tome against Mr. Beck with no verification given. There was no denial of her quote that I could see in that article. It comes down to "he said, she said" where one must make judgment on whether it is "possible or probable", and has stood the test of time and/or subsequent events (since November) born out the assumption? I think news reports have shown "it is most highly probable" since the actions of Obama's administration have indeed sought to punish his opponents and Mrs. Jarrett's position would be the "go to orchestrator" of such actions.

1:55 PM, May 30, 2013

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