Re: United to flight attendants: Put away your phone or you are fired

On 2024-02-08 12:39, Governor Swill wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 09:37:52 -0500, Alan Browne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-02-08 00:57, Governor Swill wrote:
>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:49:30 -0500, micky <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was wrong on the flat-screen tv, but a radio must not use much at all.
>>>> I've not checked, but they used to have transistors that would play for
>>>> hours or days on a 9-volt battery, so I assume they don't use much.
>>>>
>>>> And I too have the radio on about 85% of the time.   News mainly.  And
>>>> the tv about 5% of the time, when I eat.  60's reruns.
>>>>
>>>>> He's miffed when I'm over at his place and we're puttering on a car or
>>>>> something and I ask him to turn off the radio.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think I'd be miffed but it's so long since I've had company, I'm
>>>> not sure.
>>>
>>> My computer is on most of the day but only when I'm in front of it.  I shutdown rather
>>> than sleep it when I'm done with it.  I don't use TV or radio, I stream everything.
>>>
>>> In customer service I'm astounded at how many people never do a shutdown.  They don't seem
>>> to get that the machine still uses energy in sleep mode.
>>
>> Always sleep the computer.  Up to 60 days before re-boots.
> 
> If you're going that long between reboots, you're blocking the OS and other programs from
> updating.  That's bad practice.

Only if there are actually OS updates - 95% of which are incremental and 
of no real consequence.

Other than the OS - updated programs rarely need the computer to be 
re-booted.  Haven't seen that in a long time actually.

>> 1) Quebec is near 100% renewable energy, and it's cheap (6.5¢ / kWh
>> base; 10¢ / kWh for everything above 40 kWh/day (averaged over ~60 days).
> 
> That's no excuse to be wasteful.  That renewable energy could be shared with others if you
> weren't wasting it.

Demand outside the province is nowhere near the capacity of the system 
other than select mornings or evenings (when we get e-mailed entreaties 
from HQ to reduce demand - so we do reduce heating and get a bonus paid 
to us for that reduced demand.  Furnace runs at 20 kW ... that is 
significant when it is left off.

Indeed the utility encourages high use of power just before the peak 
demand period - so one could pre-heat the house to (say) 22°C before 
06:00 and coast on that for a few hours.  I don't bother - I can stand 
18°C or even 17°C for a couple hours in the morning...).

summary: electricity I use in normal times is not in demand elsewhere.

If I had the right sort of fireplace (a woodstove in the basement) I'd 
knock off a couple cords of wood / year - but that's relatively 
expensive if you don't own a few acres of suitable hardwood to harvest from.

>> 2) In the winter waste heat from the computer goes to the house, so it's
>> zero energy cost/impact from about Nov to mid April.
> 
> What about the rest of the year?

Negligible.  eg:   6.5 months of sleep (for a portion of the day) would 
amount to a few kWh.

As an aside our utility has tools to evaluate our usage v. "peer" 
households (adjusted to size, number of people, heating system, 
appliances, etc. and so on).  We' re consistently 20%+ lower energy 
users than out peers.

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