Dyson sphere

[stitch626]

What we need is for someone to develop a working M/AM reactor. Or a fusion reactor. Or solar panals on everyone's roof.

[Teaos]

We'd need to find a good way to make a large amount of AM before we could make a M/AM reactor.

[stitch626]

Yeah, well we can always think about that stuff after we commit to making it, just like everyone else in the power business (ConEd in New York City for example).
If you want, google "Con Edison power problems". It should be interesting.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

We'd need to find a good way to make a large amount of AM before we could make a M/AM reactor.

Yeah, right now we can't make enough in a hundred years to annihilate a grain of dust It'd cost at least some hundreds of thousands of dollars just for that, too. At least we know how to get hydrogen en masse once we achieve fusion.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Yeah, well we can always think about that stuff after we commit to making it, just like everyone else in the power business (ConEd in New York City for example).
If you want, google "Con Edison power problems". It should be interesting.

Yeah, it's just like much of NYC's infrastructure: old and decaying. A lot of the city's roads, water mains and sewers, electrical cables, subways, etc are from the 20's and 30's. Now, the roads can't handle the vastly greater traffic, water main breaks are a common occurrence (there was one recently in the vicinity of Shea Stadium, that delayed the start of an afternoon Mets game), and power outages are common in the summer. Much of Queens lost power for over a week in 2006, affecting LaGuardia airport but not nearby Shea Stadium (whose stadium lights draw huge amounts of power - most weekday games are in the evening).

[Teaos]

and power outages are common in the summer.

Wouldnt power outages be in the winter since that uses more power?

[Captain Picard's Hair]

and power outages are common in the summer.

Wouldnt power outages be in the winter since that uses more power?

Perhaps in Europe and New Zealand where cold winters demand power for heating, but in the US it is hot summers that create a lot of power demand for air conditioning.

[Teaos]

Oh right. Ha I dont know anyone who even owns an air conditioner.

[Sionnach Glic]

Nor do I, actualy.

[Tsukiyumi]

Funny, I've never used my heater once since moving in here.

A/C is literally necessary in Texas. It's my theory that southerners talk with such a drawl because everybody has mild heat stroke...

[Mikey]

and power outages are common in the summer.

Wouldnt power outages be in the winter since that uses more power?

This is America, the land of the free and the home of the oil-dependent. In addition to the high usage of air conditioners, most heating over here is done via oil or natural gas.

[Aaron]

This is America, the land of the free and the home of the oil-dependent. In addition to the high usage of air conditioners, most heating over here is done via oil or natural gas.

Yeah because electric heat is so expensive.

[Teaos]

We have a wood fire place for when it gets to cold a these things called windows for when its to hot.

[Tsukiyumi]

We have a wood fire place for when it gets to cold a these things called windows for when its to hot.

Yeah, dude. That doesn't work out too well when it's 100+ degrees outside.

[Teaos]

It usually drops to just around -1 in winter but usually 2 or 4 degrees and ubout 25ish during summer.