All the eggheads at these state run thinktanks want to do with endless million or dollars is to write and rewrite( AKA update) endlee reports and studies they rarely evern do anything that really helps the average JOE.

By using evaporative precooling of the typical air cooled condenser on most home air conditioners you can reduce the energy use by 30% and boost cooling effect ( BTU/hour) by 30%

Rather than to attempt to use that monster cenetal air conditioner to cool the entire home one could use a much smaller ” packaged air condition” AKA window air conditioner to cool just the area that is atually occupied.

I have proven over 3 years of testing that using less than 1/2 the power of a hand held hair dryer ( 700 wats) it is possible to cool a single occupied zone.

In Tucson where we have hit 100 F last week we can cool of a rather large area of 3 rooms to 65F using just 1200 Watts of power .this will cost us less than $0.15 per hour.

The poor fools who trusted California thinktanks to save them this summer are in for a very hot summer.

The best part is we can buy a portable gasoline generator to power up to 12000 BTU of cooling for about $200. This would keep cool a very large living area.

Some Californina utilited like PG&E will be charging about $1 per kilowatt hour thsi summer about 10 times what I pay in Tucson.

I left California just in time before it melts down woth sky high taxes regulation and no service for what the taxpayers are charges for.

Utility companied proved decades ago that using a low cost precooler was more cost effective than to upgrade to a high SEER air conditioner.

Funny for less than $100 the typical home owner could precool the old low SEER central ac… but the powers at be want you to pay $1,000’s to buy a new high SEER air conditioner.

These high SEER ac units really fall off in cooling performance at over 90F they are designed to pass the SEER test that is done at just 80F

When we precooled a typical low EER window air conditioner unit typical 9.8 EER we gewt a EER of 14 and we get a super cold blast of 45F air into the room even at an outside air temperature of 100F

California you are in for a summer of hurt!!

Those old tubes at San Clemente must be imported from KIEV…

http://www.ocregister.com/news/onofre-352566-san-new.html

They said that about the Titanic 100 years ago and we are still getting perfectly good cups and saucers from the wreck! Shhhhheeeeeeeeesh.

Seriously— you Repub’s are in a constant hissy fit.

“To comply with regulations, both of the decommissioned Huntington Beach gas power plants had their gas lines severed and three-foot holes were cut in the boilers.”

Mull that over for a bit. On an insanity scale of 1-10, that rates an 11. We have all heard of (and can be understandably sympathetic towards) weaponry being destroyed after a war. (Swords into plowshares and all that). But this is regulatory malfeasance. It’s not just good enough to decommission a plant. You have to actively vandalize it? What regulator thought this had to be written into the decommissioning standards? Who approved such a thing?

I swear this might be the most stupid thing I have ever read.

There is no hope for the S.S. California. Abandon ship.