Pwr

So my little flutter into our power situation has produced even more of determination to have more info on the wind. Really if people were a little more clued into the weather, life would just be a great deal merrier.

In a very quick bout of reading, I came across a few sites — there’s v little mention of where we’re buying the 20 percent power we’re not producing from. This I am v curious about. I am so curious I’d like to know the precise town or turbine it’s created.

I did find this from July http://greenpolicyprof.org/wordpress/?p=289 an examination of why the BC Utilities Commission reject BC Hydro’s long term plan. I recall during the election there was a lot of focus on the BC Liberals silent plans to privatise rivers and BC Hydro or some madness.

In my small effort to get off the grid that unfortunately did not produce much of result, I did learn how significantly difficult it is to generate power. I was able to generate 12 volt power that needed to be converted and in that conversion a great deal was lost.  Another friend said marine batteries were the way to go, so that’s another route. Basically most of the scuppering occurred because I plugged the panel into the wrong hole and hence no charge was created.

There’s lots of ingenuity out there and hopefully garage, kitchen pioneers will start building small devices involving clothes pegs and circuits that will be open source and shortly we can create them to power the fridge.

There was such a movement of home inventors in the 1950’s. Some of the inventions and entrepreneurial spirit can be seen in the bag of the Homes and Gardens type mags from that era. I have a bunch and will describe some of the ads in another post.

Pwr

A very interesting conversation today in a caff with someone about the energy sector. I assumed we were exporting power in BC, the image of surplus of power must be a stale one from years ago when a rebate was offered to some low income families. How and ever we are actually importing power, the demand having outgrown supply.  We are importing power from the US.

more links to follow, have to explore this question of power supply more and where the incentives lie or are being created around consumer reduction. The introduction by BC Hydro of two tier billing I found both beneficial to me and progressive. I made one attempt to get off the grid somewhat  a few years ago, but unfortunately it ended promptly and basically was a disaster,

Rhotic 8

Ding

Sa lá atá inniu fuair mé fear an-ólta ar an tsráid

Rinne sé a tóg ar píosa adhmaid agus titim sé

Chuaigh mé dó

Cén fáth a bhfuil tú ólta sin ag an uair seo go luath d’iarr mé?

Dúirt sé, bhí sé 25

Agus bhí sé ag dul chuig an ospidéal a bhailiú a earrings Diamond

Rinne mé a insint dó baile chun dul agus ba chóir dúinn glaoch duine chun cuidiú leis

D’fhéadfadh sé a bhí mo mhac Ding

Cad a tharla don den sórt sin a fear óg a chur air sa stát seo?
Dúirt sé go raibh sé an-ait gur labhair mé dó!

Snookool

Played snooker or pool or whatever the table, blue chalk, triangle and solid balls in the holes adds upto with two women ce soir who were spectacular at it. Due to three players, one woman, had to take her turn for each of the two players. I do not everrecall playing snooker or pool, I have seen the men in waistcoats playin’ it on the telly and may have waved at cue at the table on another occasion. These two women, claiming to know nothing and be terrible, were astonishing. A shot behind the back and under the arm, a bounce it off the bottom and back up the top and something pops into another hole. I was very adept at putting the white ball in the hole without it touching any ball whatsoever.

The surface of the table not green but purple.

I think I prefer watching tennis but pool is possibly more compelling than badminton.

More importantly watched the marvellous C Snatch Z (pronounced shh. Snatch) perform two pieces. Her pieces are cohesive in their colour, sound, rhythm, language, politik, image with dance as the central tenet. Her physicality is mesmerizing and how it informs and coalesces with these other aspects. Her risk is infused with intelligence.  We were talking briefly about contemporary dance after and she mentioned a Japanese form of visual art dance, something I’d never heard of.

Du vent Vancouver

Very reassuring windy night. The forecast says 17km per hr, (upto 50km) but I suspect it’s more km. I am loving the melancholic tones of autumn in the city. Summer is so bright and blue, which has it’s own immediate charms, but autumn can put you in the trenches and gather you in like no other. And it’s a much more interesting auditory time of year. Summer sounds can be obscured in the whirrs of fans everywhere and people declaring how lucky we are when the sun shines.

According to the BC Weather Book, one of my weather refs, storms formed in the gulf of Alaska are moving Eastward. Now I did check for a section on wind and nada. I’d like to know more about the particular vent that blowing outside the window.  BC is so broad a geographic area, that really we could use a weather book specifically for Vancouver. One for the Island.  Heck why not publish one just about Campbell River? Infact I wouldn’t mind a guide to the weather on the precise street I live on.

I must acquire a way of measuring the wind speed. I cannot be doing with such vagueness.

There is a suggestion of flurries on Thursday. A forecast will be forthcoming, once a suitable paragraph reveals itself.

Fairly soon I will have to start paying my annual attention to the weather in Edmonton also.

Flash

It was suggested to me last night at a literary gathering that I should watch The Beachcombers. Given that my history of television viewing is a bit limited I decided to give a warm up sprint of viewing before this undertaking of Flash Gordon. A remastered DVD I picked up for 50 cents. Myself and the small Puffin enjoyed some restorative post Halloween supine viewing of Flash.

It took me a great deal longer than him to figure out who Flash Gordon was. How’d you know it’s him? I’d suggested it was another fella. Easy he said I looked at the cover of the DVD and he’s identical. I temporarily could not quite see the resemblance and must get my eyes tested a toute vitesse. If you cannot recognize Flash this is a serious impediment.

We so enjoyed indulging in the Christmas present head dresses and brilliant bouncy spring machine with light bulbs on the end — very Wheel of Fortune — against which Flash agus a chairde were pressed and buzzed by the villains. The fab desk that looked like the ledge in the bank and the purposeful dialogue: “Well hello there Gordon.” at the denouement.

A perfect episode and still 2 more to go and yet another ww2 Pacific aviation adventure waiting before we comb the beach territory.

Þig eða þú

Rhotic 7

Ding

Tá an fliú muc leanaí ag an scoil

Táim ag súil beidh sé anois ag an doras go luath

Inné bhí sé an-foggy lá atá inniu ann ach bhí na sléibhte soiléir agus an spéir gheal.

Chonaic mé Primetime ar an fliú muc in Éirinn.

Tá fear an dá linn a fhios dó.  Fear ó Thuaisceart le gáire mhor.

Hyper extension

This is curious from 1964, I think French doc on gymnastics: was particularly drawn to Caslavska in the first sequence. The sport was so much more balletic, now and really since the 70’s it’s been all hyper extension of limbs and high risk and tornado tumbling. It was the repetition that I loved about being a gymnast and the lines, whether it was a tumbling sequence of the line of your leg and extended foot in relation to your arm and hand. And the way you had to use all your strength to uncurl your body to an extended straight line, relying on your shoulders and wrists to get your there because sometimes from sitting you’d have nothing other than that.

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