Comments on: Sweet, sweet electricity http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/ XML, identity, crafting, and other tangled musings Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Eve M. http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21803 Eve M. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:24:12 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21803 Hey, sorry I missed hanging out with all you folks at the XML conference! It was a tough call, XML or IIW, and though I found IIW extremely productive (and fun), my mind wandered frequently to the other coast. Glad you dropped by here. Scott, glad to hear you have power now. One of my band members lives in Woodinville and I think his house is still dark. It's still rough going for lots of people (Comcast internet service is apparently out for pretty much everyone -- lucky me, I've got DSL). Hey, sorry I missed hanging out with all you folks at the XML conference! It was a tough call, XML or IIW, and though I found IIW extremely productive (and fun), my mind wandered frequently to the other coast. Glad you dropped by here.

Scott, glad to hear you have power now. One of my band members lives in Woodinville and I think his house is still dark. It’s still rough going for lots of people (Comcast internet service is apparently out for pretty much everyone — lucky me, I’ve got DSL).

]]> By: Scott Tsao http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21775 Scott Tsao Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:34:45 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21775 Eve, I appreciate reading this entry about the experience during your visit to the great(?) Pacific Northwest. My wife just called saying that we have power at our house now (was out since last Thursday night). By the way, I missed the opportunity to meet you face to face at the XML 2006 conference in Boston. Hope I will have another chance in the future! Scott Eve,

I appreciate reading this entry about the experience during your visit to the great(?) Pacific Northwest. My wife just called saying that we have power at our house now (was out since last Thursday night). By the way, I missed the opportunity to meet you face to face at the XML 2006 conference in Boston. Hope I will have another chance in the future!

Scott

]]> By: Eliot Kimber http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21758 Eliot Kimber Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:35:32 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21758 Yow--that sounds like quite an ordeal. We have photo-voltaics on our house but the system is grid connected. My wife was quite disappointed to learn that this means that when the grid power goes out that our PVs are disconnected as well--because their output could shock anyone working on the grid system trying to get the power back on. In fact, the system has redundant manual cutoffs (in addition to the automatic cut-off built into the DC-to-AC inverter). Oh well. At least we have gas for the stove too.... Hope things are back to normal now. Yow–that sounds like quite an ordeal.

We have photo-voltaics on our house but the system is grid connected. My wife was quite disappointed to learn that this means that when the grid power goes out that our PVs are disconnected as well–because their output could shock anyone working on the grid system trying to get the power back on. In fact, the system has redundant manual cutoffs (in addition to the automatic cut-off built into the DC-to-AC inverter).

Oh well.

At least we have gas for the stove too….

Hope things are back to normal now.

]]> By: Eve http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21644 Eve Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:54:51 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21644 Hi John! I'm surprised a rural house would have fewer backup systems than a place in the city. Maybe you should get some propane tanks for it. :-) I'm pretty sure that gasoline-powered generators are verboten in our building, but maybe we should look into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Xantrex-802-1500-Powerpack-Portable-Backup/dp/customer-reviews/B00005RHQQ" rel="nofollow">this type of power supply</a>. Hi John! I’m surprised a rural house would have fewer backup systems than a place in the city. Maybe you should get some propane tanks for it. :-) I’m pretty sure that gasoline-powered generators are verboten in our building, but maybe we should look into this type of power supply.

]]> By: John Cowan (on a small island off the eastern coast of North America) http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21628 John Cowan (on a small island off the eastern coast of North America) Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:16:26 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/12/17/sweet-sweet-electricity/#comment-21628 Well, you could move to a city building like mine; built in 1872, it has neither elevators nor gates. The water gets here by gravity, and the our stove is gas too, so we can function during a blackout pretty well. It actually has many fewer dependencies than my rural house on the mainland, which is unfortunately all-electric (the alternative being propane in tanks). Well, you could move to a city building like mine; built in 1872, it has neither elevators nor gates. The water gets here by gravity, and the our stove is gas too, so we can function during a blackout pretty well. It actually has many fewer dependencies than my rural house on the mainland, which is unfortunately all-electric (the alternative being propane in tanks).

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