What if....
The USA was like the Golgafrinchans in Hitchhikers...
Obligatory meme:
Be safe boys and girls.
British call July 4th Thanksgiving Day.
Even if you hated history in school, Kelsey Grammar's series is interesting, easy to follow and (for me) gives detail I've not heard anywhere else. Was Custer a great general or just lucky - twice?
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:
German potato salad is the one true spud salad.
Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:A properly insulated house has very low heating and cooling needs in general in all but the most extreme climates. And a poorly insulated one won't resist changes to outside ambient well enough for that strategy to work much. Also, how cold would you have to make it for the house to be a thermal battery? Are you going to turn the thermostat down to an uncomfortable level so that you are shivering in the morning?
Found the link.
The first 6:30 or so gives background on the nature of trying to make a stable power generation grid, which requires that supply meet demand almost exactly, and the way that demand is variable over the day, and the way that is dealt with via various storage strategies, and ultimately, reactive load shedding.
Then he goes on to his home cooling strategy. He says he has never seen the in house temperature exceed 76F and normally it never goes near that, not using the A/C between 7am and 10pm.
It's an interesting watch (all of this guy's videos are if you are a tech geek) and thought provoking.
IIRC he lives in central Indiana.
ShawnG said:What if....
The USA was like the Golgafrinchans in Hitchhikers...
It is. All the whackos in Europe and England left to go be whackos somewhere else.
Then when the eastern seaboard was populated and started to be sane, all the whackos went west to be whackos somewhere else.
Now where do they go?
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