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***Official FIRES thread***
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and.....another one starts!! what the flame?
this one is in calabassas near the 101 and South Las VIrgenes road. Right where you exit Las Virgenes south across from the stop lights there.
#oakfire
this one is in calabassas near the 101 and South Las VIrgenes road. Right where you exit Las Virgenes south across from the stop lights there.
#oakfire
Well,
if your panels are on a slanted roof,
you could alwayz just hose thee grime off...
My truckz panels are flat, so i do indeed clean 'em as needed,
especially as i spend my 'old'' dayz at thee beach, gettin' sea~spray+pch grime on 'em...
but so what?
i get free electricty, from thee sun, when i'm parked,
or if i'm out kayakin'+observin' my local L.A environment,
or heck even drivin' 'round town, + guess what, i dig it!
You like payin' thousands, over thee years, for electricity?
You don't have to if you don't want to.
Just get yourself one of these bad boys.
I mean, if it works for your car by powering it through the lighter port, surely it could power your whole block.
I'd be all for hosing them down . . .. From the ground.
As for cost/benefit, my power bill averages $40-45/month, so I would need to get at least 20+ years out of a system just to cover the install cost. No way in hell I would deal with any of those leasing companies who camp out at Coscto/Lowes/Home Depot and their sketchy contracts. IMO the tech still has a ways to go, but if PGE starts regularly shutting down power where I live, that would certainly push me in that direction.
As for cost/benefit, my power bill averages $40-45/month, so I would need to get at least 20+ years out of a system just to cover the install cost. No way in hell I would deal with any of those leasing companies who camp out at Coscto/Lowes/Home Depot and their sketchy contracts. IMO the tech still has a ways to go, but if PGE starts regularly shutting down power where I live, that would certainly push me in that direction.
Woke up in the middle of the night to scent of smoke.
Neighbor's house on fire or ours.
Get out of bed, walk to the front and back window, and nope, no glare of flame, so I shut the windows and go back to bed.
This A.M. decided not to fill my lungs with condensing particulate matter by cycling to work, so I took BART in.
As the BART was coming into my SF station from the East BAY, it was pushing a tube of smokey air before it from West Oakland station. Get on BART headed downtown, and when I get off at Embarcadero station, the scent of smoke/fire was even stronger.
Bleah.
Super expensive to run lines underground, slow to build out, then someone had to keep track of where they are, and then earthquakes/landslide/construction/trees/erosion happen. But yeah, fires from downed lines might make everyone want to pay a boatload more for undergrounding the lines.
For sure. I might buy a few Goal Zero panels and one of their batteries/power banks. Pretty cool stuff https://www.goalzero.com/
We did some math on putting solar on our SF roof top a number of years ago.
Rough numbers are based on that.
1 Might as well put new roof up while putting on solar - $15,000
2 Cost for average set of panels, wiring, permitting - $25,000
3 Cost for good battery storage (optional but useful?) - $20,000
4 Average power and gas during 6 summer months - $300
5 Average power and gas during 6 winter months - $600
6 Still have to pay PGE line fees monthly - so $100 a year
Therefore power and gas is approximately $1000 a year, so it would take 40 yrs to recover cost at the low end.
Barely had the $ to buy the place in the '90s, so couldn't afford the upgrade then. I could put it in now, but unless I stay put and live another 40 years here, could recover cost (but I could put it in and sell the place, and add it to the sale price, but it would be an amortized gain, so....) Then I just rebuilt my stairs, etc., and blew up my savings, so now I definitely can't afford it now.
I think new roofs haven't gotten cheaper, but maybe solar installs have(?), so the above figuring is possibly invalid, but a reasonable starting point for a single family home in SF.
A friend of mine lives in the Oakland hills where it all burned to the ground in the early 90s.
He paid $300 every month for the last 20+ years to underground the lines in that part of the hills.
$72,000 from one household (20 years * $300 * 12 months).
Now lets talk to someone in the Hayward/San Leandro hills and use $350 a month because inflation....$84,000.
"I'll take my chances and save $84,000. I'm more careful about those things they were."
Lots of humans think like this. We are tough to convince that someone else's problems can become ours.
But ...”Everyone has a share!” And it’s not free.
My son/wife/jr. and two nieces evacuated from Santa Rosa.
It's going to cost a ton, and it's going to take a long time, but it needs to get started.
Good morning!
Well, your daily fire news is
#easyfire
between the 23/118 fwy off Tierra Rejada next to the Regan Library.
Blowing up super windy!
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Well, your daily fire news is
#easyfire
between the 23/118 fwy off Tierra Rejada next to the Regan Library.
Blowing up super windy!
Easy Fire: 7,000 Homes Threatened in Simi Valley Area as 1,500-Acre Blaze Burns Near Reagan Library
Update: Crews continued to battle the Easy Fire on Thursday. An updated story is here. A massive fire exploded on the hills near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley early Wednesd…
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