Yesterday’s Coffee
@powerclyde
Engineer, girl-dad, granddad, dog&cat-dad, retired (mostly) from electricity industry. Fulton Co GA blue. Will never own a BFT (a big f’n truck). I don’t bother with cryptic posts, especially those without punctuation. DM after Follow Back = Block
Some people just ruin a good joke by making it plainly obvious. To their credit, I guess, they didn’t add “I see dead people.“ Yeah, we got it the first time.
Back at ya. I say she is a camo cat, because her tabby has spots of orange randomly arrayed. She still gets to go out, but she knows where home is.
I guess not many remember how Ford was always stumbling around, providing fodder for Chevy Chase on that brand new TV show: SNL.
Um, <cough cough> in the picture, these are resistors. They’re why spellcheck doesn’t help you in this case. Yours are great Resisters.
Quiet. Respect. That’s the way it felt in the American Cemetery in Luxembourg. The place was immaculate, and I could barely speak while there.
I love my sunrises. At this time of year, while the sun comes up behind those trees, we get detailed moving silhouettes of limbs and leaves on the walls behind me.
We have one. My wife snapped this with her phone while we were on the road.
Wow. Even the lighter colors over one eye. This one is the neighborhood cat that we inherited when we moved in. She was here before us. We keep her inside much more than the prior owners, but we let her out during the day. Everybody knows her; she’s named after the street.
Ugh. I’m with you. I can sleep after going to bed, and I go to bed hours before my wife. But I’m struggling to sleep past 430 a.m. I did score a nap yesterday afternoon, almost too late. The saving grace is getting to enjoy the approaching sunrise through an east-facing window.
Sometimes it’s a curse to be an early riser, but on more days than not, the sunrise is worth it. The best colors are about 30 minutes before official sunrise. I know some people would prefer to never see it, though.
Electricity prices started a steep climb at the same time as the initial oil embargo and oil price spikes. Prices rose in both real and nominal terms for more than a decade, and it was a big deal.
He didn't even have his facts straight about where electricity prices are highest. The map shows the most recent annual average residential electricity price (cents/kWh). The data source is EIA. He didn't specify residential, retail, commercial, or industrial, but Maine isn't the highest regardless.
There's also inflation in the recent years. Even utility "fixed" costs (incl "fixed" O&M) are affected by inflation, but fuel prices react strongly. Yes, prices are rising, and yes, data center loads are contributing, at least in some areas. But maybe not as dramatically as many suggest.
Shows increases vary significantly among states. Graph shows average residential price growth between 2 consecutive 12-mo periods ending Sept'25. NV & HI had unusually high prices in '22-24, now declining back to normal. Today's avg for NV is about the same as 2010-2020. US avg increase ~2%.
Year-over-year increase of 2% is not nothing, but it's not a sudden jump. A series of annual increases started in 2022 for US total, which is about when commercial sales began increasing post-Covid. Residential and Industrial sales are still barely growing, if at all.
A proper comparison of average residential rates, 12-months ended 9/25 with 12 months ended 9/24. I hate Trump and I hate to be a spoilsport, but I also hate statistics made alarmist by omitting context. MO 2.0% IA 0.9% ND 0.7% OK 3.7% NJ 7.6% NE 2.5% MT 0.4% WY 2.3% US 2.3% Sorry.
These are resistors, and also the reason that spellcheck doesn’t catch it when people misspell resister.