It's been six days since the derecho event last Friday night crippled electrical infrastructure across the East Coast. My girlfriend Kristen had been one of those afflicted: at one point there were more than 20,000 people without juice in Roanoke County, Virginia but thankfully earlier this evening her lights came back on (along with the air conditioning :-)Okay well, this isn't really something designed as a tribute to those brave souls who have...
Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electricity. Show all posts
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Color me officially intrigued by Bloom Energy
Heaven only knows how many alternative energy schemes have been proposed over the years, only to watch all of 'em that come to mind fail to deliver the promised goods of cheap, clean power.But having read about it for the past few weeks, and now seeing what was unveiled yesterday by the company, I think there's a LOT of potential in what Bloom Energy has come up with.Imagine ten years from now, having a brick-sized energy server supplying all of...
Saturday, February 06, 2010
22 hours without electricity
More than 43,000 people here in Rockingham County have been without power since last night because of the winter storm. The precious juice stopped flowing to my own house at just after 7:30 p.m. yesterday evening.I've been hunkered down under four blankets and a Boy Scout sleeping bag for most of that time since, trying to stay warm.Give it up for the lads (and lasses) of Duke Energy though! They restored electricity a short time ago to this road...
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Death by Twitter
A seventeen-year old girl is dead after being electrocuted in her bathroom in a freak accident while plugging in a laptop computer that she was using to Twitter.Maria Barbu of Brasov, Romania was found by her parents laying next to the laptop, and police think she "may have tried to plug in the computer's mains power lead with wet hands after the battery ran down during a long Twitter session".Here's what I have to ask in case no one else has: why...
Saturday, June 02, 2007
The electrician is still scratchin' his head ...
This brings whole new meaning to "squirrel power". And no, he did not survive...Good friend Matt Smith works on a bulletin board and found this posted by a radio engineer in Tennessee. Thanks for forwarding it this way Ma...
