what on earth does electricity cost near you?

[Country Geek]

When anyone says that ANY technology has plateaued and can go no farther, I also think of the time the City of Dallas bought 2 IBM 360 computers in the early '70s and the experts assured us that would be all the computer the city would ever need.:laughing:[/QUOTE,

Your phone probably has more capability than that old iron 360. Back in the late 70's I was writing programs that had to fit into 8k of ram. Anything larger had to be written to disk and swapped back and forth. The DEC PDP-8 was the size of a regular refrigerator, and had a disk pack next to it that was almost as large.

5 whole megabytes here!

 

[vulcancowboy]

When anyone says that ANY technology has plateaued and can go no farther, I also think of the time the City of Dallas bought 2 IBM 360 computers in the early '70s and the experts assured us that would be all the computer the city would ever need.:laughing:[/QUOTE,

Your phone probably has more capability than that old iron 360. Back in the late 70's I was writing programs that had to fit into 8k of ram. Anything larger had to be written to disk and swapped back and forth. The DEC PDP-8 was the size of a regular refrigerator, and had a disk pack next to it that was almost as large.

The first system I worked on was a DEC PDP-11/34. I thought I would just PIP this reply to you, but I guess they forgot to include it in this IOS.

 

[bajabum]

My first confuser was a WW2 era Navy MK 1A, made in 1943.
Two tons of motors, synchros and gears, but it worked very well!
Later on, we had a Univac/IBM 1230, that processed telemetry, and generated pointing angles and commands.
Huge platter disks.
We also had 8 inch floppies, 64 K each!
Technology never plateaus for long, something newer is always coming along.
Megabucks batteries for satellites becomes cheap consumer products eventually!

 

[3930dave]

The Easter Bunny is being good to us today here.

Time-of-use Holiday Schedule | OEB

Happy Easter everyone.

Rgds, D.

 

[Looking4new]

The Easter Bunny is being good to us today here.

Time-of-use Holiday Schedule | OEB

Happy Easter everyone.

Rgds, D.

Yeah! We aren't going to get stung as badly as regular week days. WHOOPY!

 

[chad22]

I think I pay around 11 cents per kwh here. My electric bill with the space heater running last month was $90.00 that includes all other usage as well. Running lights, fridge, coffee maker, tv, desktop computer running 24/7 and vacuuming a lot and I do mean a lot of vacuuming as I'm vacuuming up all the fine powder of drywall compound and plaster.

Vacuum is running about 3 times a day cleaning up. I done wore out an older shop vac my parents had. It was going anyway and they gave it to me and told me to go ahead wear it out. lol

I'll see how long this other shop vac I have will last.

 

[buickanddeere]

18 cents average per kw hr and 79% of the power was used at the lowest rate. One of these days the water heater will have a timer installed. The kids run the 60 gallon heater cold just before peak rate starts at 7:00AM. The 4.8 Kw heater heats for 3-4 hrs at peak rate for 15-20Kw hr five days a week. Costs me $1100 a year to heat that water on peak. Lowest rate would be approx 1/2 the price.

 

[sseelhoff]

We just changed providers. $.061 per Kw hr. under 1000 KW hrs per month. After 1000, it jumps to $.11 per Kw hr. We went with Green Mountain Energy. 1 year contract. 100% of the energy is provided by renewable sources (wind and solar). They are also solar friendly for homeowner installations, which our previous provider was not. This may be the year we add panels to the house.

 

[buickanddeere]

Where does that green power come from at night when the wind is not blowing?

 

[Looking4new]

Where does that green power come from at night when the wind is not blowing?

:laughing: Moonshine?:laughing: