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@o19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com, says...

On Nov 4, 9:00*pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Nov 4, 8:38*pm, " wrote:





On Nov 4, 5:37*pm, wrote:

It is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that the thing
you think should be done cost money. *The power companies do their
best to keep costs down. *But if you would like to pay twice is much
for power, I am sure they could fird a way to spend the extra money
improving the system. *Why don't you start the ball rolling by sending
the power company twice as much as they bill you? *Please post here
when you start paying twice as much for your power.

Dan

Dan,
Of course power companies try to keep their cost down. But the
solution you put forward, individuals sending twice their bill, is
ludicrous

I was only proposing that TMT send extra money to the power compary so
they would do what he wants. *It was intended to be ludicrous much as
TMT's proposal that houses and apartment buildings *all have their own
independent generators.

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So why do houses and apartments have their own independent heating and
cooling systems?

Is that ludicrous?

I could easily see a small generator being a part of the heating
system which could share subsystems and be there for when the mains go
dead.

And if the infrastructure continues to be neglected, I can easily see
it becoming an option that a homeowner would want.

In countries where power is intermittent, owning a generator is
common.

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This should have been fixed sooner...the blizzard that caused the
outages was not that severe.

I suspect that we are talking about neglected maintainance and old
infrastructure that has not been updated.

The major problem was that it was a wet snowfall with the trees still in
leaf. When half a maple tree comes down on the powerline there's not
much that preventive maintenance can do about it.

There has been an ongoing problem with trimming trees back from the
lines--in most localities in CT the power company needs the permission
of the local government to do this and the local governments have been
reluctant to allow a proper job of it. Now maybe they will for a while.