• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    18 hours ago

    Sure this was a thing back in the day with incandescent lightbulbs - but like, you can leave a 10W bulb on for like 4 days straight for the price of ~1kWh (~20c USD here in Australia), right?

    • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      Night lights are like half a watt. You can leave a 0.5W bulb on all night (let’s just say 12 hours), 365 days per year, and you’d be coming up on a total energy use of about 2.1 kWh per year, or about $0.35 per year in USD.

    • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      13 hours ago

      0.087 CAD / kWh here, but it doesn’t matter. The bill is majority delivery fees/fuck you fees.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 hours ago

        Damn, that’s a pretty good rate! Hydro power - I assume? We also have a daily charge to maintain a collection at ~ $1 AUD/day… is it similar there?

        • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          I’m in Alberta Canada, so it’s recently converted coal plants to natural gas power plants supplied by private deregulated utility companies and resellers. Energy prices have been dropping as a result of the upgrades.

          If you’re still curious:

          I just switched to the cheaper market rate, so this bill is my previous 9.25 ¢/kWh.

          Edit: natural gas bill too why not.

          Context matters: Zone 3b climate region, 1200sqft 70’s built bi-level with 3 adult humans worth of consumption.

          • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            3 hours ago

            If you’re still curious:

            I’m a Data Analyst, I’m always curious! 🤣

            You’re getting absolutely railed on your connection charges; that’s like $4.88CAD a day!?

            I recently resigned with our provider so we only have 21 days of usage, we’re in summer, and we have a 5 bed, 3 bath two-storey home with solar panels for 4 adults and a child:

            Factoring in the exchange rate, $1CAD ~= $1.12AUD; just makes the comparison even worse.

            My state’s energy composition locally is ~35% renewables, mostly wind and solar, with the rest being a mix of natural gas, black & brown coal.

            As an aside, our feed-in tariff (i.e. how much we get paid to export excess solar into our grid) has absolutely cratered over the last few years: down from ~15c during COVID to only ~3.3c this year - it really incentivises us to explore solar batteries as an option.

            • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              You’re getting absolutely railed on your connection charges; that’s like $4.88CAD a day!?

              Your professional opinion is on point 🤣

              Yeah. Deregulation happened under our previous idiot premier and he parachuted into a cushy job at one of the utility companies after he had a tantrum and quit for an essay worth of reasons that lead to our current predicament with the alt right. Anyways, nothing sus about that!

              We can sell back to the grid here too, but it’s not as great a deal with only really generating power in the summer months. From what I’ve seen locals can basically break even covering the fees on average over a year with the remnants of the solar programs UCP didn’t destroy at best. That’s also deliberate. They won’t let you install a system bigger than the power you consume over an average of three years. So what savvy people do is overconsume on purpose to get a bigger solar setup approved. I might do this one day, but it’ll be DIY to save 15k from hiring goons to mount panels to my roof and run the wires. I can do that myself.

              I don’t anticipate any cratering in foreseeable future because despite the upgrades…they were already overloaded before and borderline now. They’ve (gov) actually been going around and asking manufacturing plants to shut down in summer months strategically and offering lump sums each time they participate when asked to make it worth shutting down. Clown show.

              There was a solar farm getting built…but Amazon owned it so, can’t say I was excited. Probably a dead deal now with everything going on.

      • Hyggyldy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        Only realized the other day that that’s one of the things “in the middle” means, in addition to him being the middle child and in the middle of things.

      • Final Remix@lemmy.world
        7·
        13 hours ago

        The Simpsons straddles that line. They only have that house because his father won a fixed gamble. They drive outdated and dented up cars, they can’t afford steak whenever Homer wants it. An entire episode was dedicated to them trying to fix the foundation on the house.

        • criss_cross@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Then you have the Frank Grimes episode dedicated to completing poking at all of the holes of that working class family facade.

      • De_Narm@lemmy.world
        41·
        20 hours ago

        It’s incredible how seemingly effortlessly Cranston pulls off Hal again. One friendly smile and the whole mental image I got from Breaking Bad is forgotten.

        • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
          9·
          13 hours ago

          That’s why I admire Vince Gilligan and his astute observation. He said he intentionally hired comedians because of their acting range, especially with their ability to control their facial ticks.