Too Hot to Fold

[DSCHIEF]

Temp is expected to top 101 today, humidity is hanging around 78 %, I've shut down most of the farm. It looks like the Hi's ares going to stay at 95+ for a few days,
so I'm saving my budgeted KWh's to run the Central Air.

[Khalil]

I don't blame you. The AC unit I got going is keeping the room around 75 but no doubt when I add more farms it is going to get crazy. I am wondering if I should wait till September to add the other units. In Illinois they raise the rate on electric in the summer.

[DSCHIEF]

Somebody ought to invent an ad-on accessory to bolt onto the back side of a tower
to isolate the exhaust fans so that the hot air could be ducted to a window mount blower.
that way all you would not have to knock down the BTu's that Folding produces.

[MaxRat]

good idea...I did thos with some hose and card board...worked pretty well just looked all hill-jacked...

We are getting hit pretty hard here with utility cost...

When I lived in town we had AEP electric and they charge .085 a kilowatt hour....now we live on the outskirts of town and have NIPSCO electric (who buys it from AEP for .04 a kilowatt hour) and they charge .26 a kilowatt hour for the 1st 200 kilowatt hours and .10 every kilowatt over that...

our electric bill has almost tripled going from a 4800sq ft home to a 1300sq ft home...I dont like the idea of living in a smaller home and paying a higher bill....

[glc]

You will get it all back in the winter with lower heating bills.

[LeftyAce]

Looking at some of the farms guys are running, they may not get it all back in the winter; they'll still be running the AC :-P

[Force Flow]

yep, I cut my folding down when the summer heat started kicking in a couple days ago.

[DSCHIEF]

Out here, PG&E runs a tiered system . with 387.2 as a base-line

0-387 = .11559 per kwh
387.2-503 = .13142
503-774 = .22580
774-1161 = .31304
anything over 1161 = .358876 pwr Kwh

I was regularly topping over $300.00 a month in just electric bills.

[glc]

Last month I used 1105 KwH and it cost me $123.72. We just got socked with a heat wave and I'm guessing next month's bill will be 200 bucks. My bills in the winter average about $65, this house is 100% electric except for the gas furnace.

[vtfanmv5]

Yay for paying $0.06/kWh since I work for the local utility

[LeftyAce]

Hmm. I'm not sure whether I'm getting my electricity for free (through my university) or whether I'm paying over $40,000 per year for it :-O

[liambl]

Originally Posted by LeftyAce Hmm. I'm not sure whether I'm getting my electricity for free (through my university) or whether I'm paying over $40,000 per year for it :-O

My guess is its somewhere in the middle.