Yo Mex, How you holding out down south?

[mchero]

Was watching the weather channel marveling at the record high temps!

How are you setup? Are you out in the sticks under a tree or something? You off grid? what temps have you seen so far?

Inquiring minds want to know the complete details!

Thanks

[pianotuna]

I should have mentioned that the high for that day was 13.3 C (56 f) and the low was -3.9 C (25 f).

[pianotuna]

oppsss typo in the dark I am.

MrWizard wrote:


Hi PT
when did you install "Doc Browns" flux capacitor time machine

think i will make sure im out of town in October, maybe up in the Sierra's

[MEXICOWANDERER]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelectric

Refrigertor

And

Freezer

Here

[MrWizard]

pianotuna wrote:
Hi Mex,

October 15, 2016. 20 kwh of consumption provided for space heating, water heating, cooking, running the computer, charging the phone, and lighting.

Hi PT
when did you install "Doc Browns" flux capacitor time machine

think i will make sure im out of town in October, maybe up in the Sierra's

[Almot]

pianotuna wrote:

October 15, 2016. 20 kwh of consumption provided for space heating, water heating, cooking, running the computer, charging the phone, and lighting.

Same day in 2015 it was 0.6 kwh for me (do you hear me, Mex?). It's easy to stay within 2 kwh when solar can only deliver 2k in summer and 1k in winter :). Though cooking on propane. No insulation on windows, muffin fan was struggling keeping the inside below 85 in daytime, Baja Norte. Need to buy FanTastic for those hot days. It was not supposed to be THAT hot in October, but it looks like we've screwed up the global weather and now she is paying us back.

Few weeks later no fan was needed already, but heating was, for a few hours in the night - 5,000 BTU propane catalytic.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

I guess I'm lucky with 2.4 kWh daily usage. I'm eager to drive by the doubled-in-size solar voltaic field on 2 August. It is providing 3.1 Megawatts of power.

Jeez that mirror steam turbine solar unit near Las Vegas otter be producing Gigawatts of power this last weak. Lucky employees get to go out after sundown and pluck dropped ducks, pheasants and chukkar as an employee benefit.

[pianotuna]

Hi Mex,

October 15, 2015. 20 kwh of consumption provided for space heating, water heating, cooking, running the computer, charging the phone, and lighting.

I'm able to survive on one 15 amp circuit for all of the above thanks to the hybrid Magnum inverter charger.

I've spent $1400 on insulbright covers for the windows, doors, and to blcok off the cab area.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Not very technical meanderings...here...

But Northern Canada has gone from Inland Tropical Sea with orchids morphing into titanic glaciers tens of millions of years before "Lucy". lusted for lipstick.

BROKEN RECORD TIME...

It's time to DEMAND RV manufacturers upgrade R factors. It's time to DEMAND RV refrigerator manufacturers upgrade refrigerator insulation. If they choose to ignore peer pressure then by government mandate. Whom, I ask, does not have a home hot water reservoir heater wrapped in a thermal blanket?

The choo-choo has jumped the tracks and is hiding in some garbage strewn alley.

"Ooooooo, let's add another air conditioner"

Should be replaced by

"Ooooooo, let's shop for the highest thermally insulated model rig."

It takes two to tango
Without eager consumers, the Chinese like anyone else couldn't sell, squat.

Which era of the dozens of higher than present C02 environment do you wish to choose from in the last 100,000 years? Like I tell climate change pundits - "What have you PERSONALLY done to help?" I try to remember: It takes a mere tiny flaw to morph "critical" to "Hypocritical"

But RV's that waste energy a hundred times worse than a home have got to evolve or go the way of the Dodo bird.

[Almot]

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
huge new supermarket in Sta Rosalia. The reopening of the copper mine even brought a five screen Ciniplex to the town.

It also brought traffic congestion and a lot of crime. Nobody even heard of putanas or drug dealers there before the mine. After Koreans will have dugged all the copper out - 15 years? - they will be left with heaps of mining refuse and many poor children.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Converter or charger blows up "It's Not Fixable!" so people haul it to the dump. Precious raw materials, utterly wasted. Dollars flow out for no reason. Ignorance

Ah, but there is a reason. It's an ignorance well planned and very profitable (but not to you). Chinese economy is planned in 5 year periods at the Congress of Communist Party - how many hundreds of coal burning stations to build in the next 5 years, how many govt billions to put in subsidized solar panels (yes, they are subsidized and heavily), how many disposable converters to sell to those ignorant. Politburo of the Communist Party would annually review and make corrections if necessary. Politburo directives are strictly enforced.

Enjoy your temporary respite from global climate change.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

¿Jesus Saves / Moses Invests?

After six PM and on Sundays I am forced to rely on a cellular internet connection that has bandwidth so narrow it can be considered Decahertz.

At the moment (10:30AM MDT) it's pure June Gloom, high seventies, still air, solid gray skies. 74 for a low last night.

Got gnus for some folks. It's 125 miles from Bahia Tortugas, to Vizcaino then 45 miles from there to Guerrero Negro or 125 miles to Sta Rosalia. It's either that or I need to run around ripping out Km signs, putting a .38 round through the car odometer, then tossing my watch into the ocean. 250 miles across the peninsula point to point. The highways are not straight. There are several salt flats to cross.

Guerrero Negro has "La Ballena" market but it has 2% of the inventory of the huge new supermarket in Sta Rosalia. The reopening of the copper mine even brought a five screen Ciniplex to the town.

The last time I "spoke" Ingles was almost 2-months ago when I went to the USA for medical. Not one word since. I keep tuned up by reading and writing.

52 years ago I saw Bajacalifornianos as being utterly different than Mexicans on the mainland. They do not like spicy food now and did not in 1964. They prefer flour tortillas. I hate 'em. Abalone, the legal kind sells for around EIGHTY DOLLARS A POUND. The people who read right-to-left pay that absurd price.

Gringos cluster just like Mexicans, and Chinese cluster. Polish in Milwaukee, Italians in New York and Jewish retirees in Florida.

But, I am not gringo. People here stopped calling me Güero (pronounced Hwero) yeas ago. They marvel at my preference at eating salsas and spiced food they shy away from. Until the appliance and merchandise store closed a few months ago I acted as interpreter every few days. Now it's 100% español.

Businesses have to have a Dollar bank account to deposit US currency. It's a hassle as low exchange rates show (15-17 pesos to the dollar). Bank ATMs offer 18+ pesos to the dollar. Only foolish, lazy people bring dollars with them.

But all my electronics, every last discrete component, tools, solder, fasteners, has to be imported.

I get enraged at the chew & spit mentality. Build garbage, and poisonous junk contaminates land fills. Build it with intelligence, and sure it will cost a lot more but it will last. Converter or charger blows up "It's Not Fixable!" so people haul it to the dump. Precious raw materials, utterly wasted. Dollars flow out for no reason. Ignorance Par Excellence.

But I AM enjoying this June Gloom!

[Gene_Ginny]

SCVJeff wrote:
Moses had 7/11's every 15 miles to stop for a Big Gulp refill

LOL - good one :B

[Kayteg1]

Yeah. I bought a foot long lobster in Baja for $5, but having no pot to cook it, had to spend $25 for one.
Something similar to this one

[Almot]

Baja (Norte y Sur) is THE most expensive state in the whole Mexico. Only one highway (and very long one), and too many expats :). Though on the mainland many things are imported from the US too. Prices of Chinese made appliances and electronics in big box stores are higher than in the US. Sad story.

Yeah, you would've preferred dollars too, when peso drops 10-15% a year. Imagine people getting their wages in pesos - and I can assure you that most of them are.

[Kayteg1]

Almot wrote:
No, great prophet was wandering in circles, on purpose, to strengthen their faith. This has been established.

In Baja though, there is nobody to convert, they have been all Americanized, severely and irreversibly. Everyone is wearing blue denim and believes in coca cola and flat-screen TV.

They also prefer payments in dollars.
I compare some Mexican souvenirs pricing in Baja.
Can buy them much cheaper in historical San Diego.

[Almot]

No, great prophet was wandering in circles, on purpose, to strengthen their faith. This has been established.

In Baja though, there is nobody to convert, they have been all Americanized, severely and irreversibly. Everyone is wearing blue denim and believes in coca cola and flat-screen TV.