[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sat Mar 21 16:01:20 UTC 2009


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 09:38:06 Johnny wrote:
>   
>>> I enjoy this off-topic discussion a lot more than many others, but in
>>> the end, some of us do not have a choice... Incandescents will be
>>> forbidden here as of 2010... Not that there is a viable alternative for
>>> all situations yet, but that has never stopped a government before!
>>>       
>> I am sure there will be a black market for lights, in no time ;-).
>>     
>
> Or the authorities will start monitoring citizen's electric use patterns, much 
> as they do in the US to try and identify people using "Grow Lights" to grow 
> unauthorized plants.
>   

We're talking a couple hundred watts for a handful of lights.  It will 
be NO different than if you decided to watch your projection tv (rear or 
front) at night.  When they look for marijuana growers, they look for 
people with nighttime spikes in the sustained several kW range.


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