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AI too. The power to build out all those datacenters isn't coming from new generation unless it's methane belching shit like X's colossus and that's just offsetting the shitty garbage into the atmosphere instead of your power bill. And Trump is very much neck deep in AI, crypto and all the attendant bubble garbage.
I wanted to install solar when I bought my home.
The home I ended up getting had a beautiful oak tree probably several hundred years old. Which is directly blocking most of my roof on a small lot.
Not much sun to be had.
I mean it does sorta save you money on cooling via shade
Also it gives them a proper place to sacrifice apostates to the one eyed god.
They are saying our utilities are projected to go up 40% in the next five years. My electric bill is already getting close to $400. I am wondering how I am going to pay when it is close to $600 as money is already tight.
i noticed my parents electricity, and water has increased in price but not super high.
400??? Holy fuck. Are you running the AC with the windows open? Or is your house 5000 sq ft? You need an energy consultant more than anything. How much insulation do you have? And no, a paper towel stapled into a wall doesn't count. I'm also taking a wild guess that your windows are single pane from the 60's and don't close all the way?
Lol I don't even use it for heat or cooling. 10 people live here and it is a big house with 5 bdrm and 3 bath. We live on an island and have to pay diesel surcharge to maintain a diesel power station in case the hydro power fails. We also have a water pump which probably adds to it.
My heating fuel has been as high as $700 in one month in winter. A friend pays over a thousand because their house is not insulated properly.
That is why it is scary when they talk about rates going up. I am already making hard decisions about what to eat. There isn't wiggle room for continuous rate increases. We will obviously find a way, but it sucks for sure.
Not OP.
That sucks. Especially having to make poor people financial decisions, you often can't afford to make changes that will save you money in the long run. Been there done that.
Still, there may be some things you can do to save electricity.
Cheapo line meter. I use one on my well pump. It shows usage over time. You can figure out what's using the most juice. It does 200v as well as 110 and clamps on. Does have to be wired in to for it's power supply and ground.
Also, Kill-a-Watt clones. $9.99. Shows you how much plug in things use.
Offhand things that might help:
- Hot water heater on a timer and turn down the thermostat. There wil be bitching.
- If you have an electric stove, inductance stoves are supposed to be the most efficent, but you probably can't afford one. Electric kettles for boiling water probably beat using a stove to heat water.
- Use a kill-a-watt to figure out what is using juice when appliances/TV/PC/etc. is on standbym
- Check freezer temp, it may be colder than you have to have it, turn up the thermostat.
- Check anything with a motor that plugs in with the kill-a-watt, like box fans to see if they're pulling too much juice, when the motor bearings get shitty, you'll pull more over coming friction.
- Use that clamp meter to check things like whole house blower fans, bathroom fans.
Good luck.
Americans hit with record high everything due to capitalism and fascism.
Got that $300bn Iran bill to pay...
considered its been canceled since ISRAEl struck lebanon again, iran called of the deal again.
Wonder how those cheap construction Texas McMansions with the huge foyer and high ceilings will fare. Some of the largest power bills I ever had were from when I lived in Texas, and that was in a pretty small place.
I just saw a YT clip about how the 25 y/o McMansions are all falling apart.
There's also that privatized power grid that's never been a problem
use (ceiling) fans & turn the AC down. way down. heat rises. make the high ceilings work for you not against you. just like they did in the 1920's.
Honest question: doesn't a ceiling fan blow the hot air back down around the house?
Yes, but more importantly they move the air around you. The air won't be cooler, but will feel cooler.
They are reversible so you can change the direction... which I should do right now!
logical fallacy..
Not me, I put in solar panels 5 years ago.
I put up panels last year, made the cut off for the federal rebate. I filed my taxes the first week of February and I'm still waiting for my return. They asked for a few documents back in may that they already had, no one will give me an answer. Theyre holding my money hostage.
Our solar panels are probably the best investment we ever made. Year to year our electric bill averages out to zero, even with charging our EV. Over the summer our batteries participate in our electric utilities virtual power plant program, which pays us around $2000 each year for the excess electricity we provide. And our state has a renewable energy program that pays us for every megawatt our panels generate, no matter what it’s used for.
You are lucky....in Florida , FPL actively fights residents installing solar and have insurance companies refusing to give windstorm insurance if panels are installed.....which is not an option if you have a mortgage.
Fuck FPL
Could you install them on land instead of the roof?
You're lucky to have any land to speak of in most Florida city homes. Lucky for a few yards of grass between homes if lucky.
There is not enough full sun yard at least for my place.
electricity companies will just start raising prices for connecting to the grid just to make sure they aren't losing any money from you.
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Yeah, I have tried to keep my central AC off as much as possible. My power bills over the past year have been insane.
No fucking shit. It's not even mid summer yet, and we keep our ac set as high as health conditions allow. Damn thing runs almost non stop with this old, busted ass house
Might cost you less to seal some windows or something than the cost of running the AC 24/7
Other than two windows and one door, we did that back a while. The one door isn't a factor since it's off a porch that has a door that is sealed. The one window is in a wall that looks out into that room lol. That room started as a porch, then got closed in. The other is a big window with just old school panes. Sealed around that as best as possible, but it is what it is.
This house hit 100 recently. It's leaky all over. We've been chasing little things over the years, and it's better than it used to be. Way better lol. I need to drag it ass in the attic and see what else I can do, but the ass I need to drag is old and crippled up lol. And that means fixed income that's disgustingly low, so hiring someone is out if it isn't an emergency.
But, yeah, I do need to go around the stuff I canreach and patch things up.
You forget that American houses, especially lower class ones, are made out of practically cardboard or literally foam. While sealing can help a decent amount most older homes are lucky to have R10 insulation total from drywall to whatever external sheeting exists. Even now most new construction only has to be R15.
That means at best you'd be running the AC 24/7 during the summer months if you live in the 80% of the US that gets above 32c for days at a time.
To be fair, OP said their house is "old and busted". I live in a century old farm house so I know old and busted.
We run our furnace fan sometimes when it gets hot out as our dug basement stays cool so it'll blow that cold air through our house. But we have made sure to seal windows better, use black out curtains on the south side of our house (Where the sun tends to be most of the summer) and do what we can without needing to use our Heat Pump or AC units.
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Thanks trump! Thanks ai bubble!
Thanks Obama.
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