Tink: It's a lousy situation. We're dependent on electricity--to a degree most of us won't acknowledge. Without making a moral judgement about SA's management of the situation, it seems to me that it has parallels to my article, "It's the Economy, Stupid -- No, Not Exactly."
Love and {{{[hugs}}},
Leland
the government is beseeching customers to conserve power, an unfamiliar appeal in an energy-profligate nation. It has announced subsidies for solar-powered water heaters and a program to exchange energy-wasting light bulbs for more efficient ones. Solar-powered stoplights are supposed to free traffic from the whims of the enfeebled power grid.
Maybe better days are ahead, Tinky. We should all probably be using solar power now.
Hey girl!!! I didn't know that power shortage was measured in grades of "severity", that's doubletalk until elections come and the problem will be "permanently resolved, I promise!!!"
Book 2 of The Commander and the Chief series finds the Chief "on the warpath" and "counting coup" with her enemies on both sides of the ocean. Meanwhile, she fights an indictment and risks losing her latest love, the Commander, as well as unleashing
Book 2 of The Commander and the Chief series finds the Chief "on the warpath" and "counting coup" with her enemies on both sides of the ocean. Meanwhile, she fights an indictment and risks losing her latest love, the Commander, as well as unleashing
“We’re going to use nine megaton warheads in space and we’re not sure they’re large enough to be effective. Why would you even consider using kiloton-range surface-to-air warheads as back-up?” The answer was succinct. “Because they’re all we have.”
Love ya
Ron
Love and {{{[hugs}}},
Leland
Maybe better days are ahead, Tinky. We should all probably be using solar power now.
Georg
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