How do I block Southern California Edison (SoCalEd) from draining our backup battery? I had the battery installed because of health reasons.

My wife has COPD and Parkinson's. She needs electricity 24/7 to run an oxygen concentrator. She needs electricity to run the stair-lift in our two-story house. I have sleep apnea. I need electricity at night to run the CPAP machine that keeps me breathing.

During a public safety power shutoff (PSPS) earlier this year, we were without electricity from SoCalEd for more than a day. In the daytime, we had electricity from our solar system; in the night, we had electricity from our battery. The PSPS did not impair our health.

Actually, a PSPS is not my only concern. SoCalEd fails in my area without warning, without regard for the weather, at any time of the year. Sometimes, it is only for a few minutes; sometimes it is for many hours. If it happens while we are sleeping, we might not realize that we must report the outage. With our battery, we are protected.

Rather than relying on the "official" version published by a government where people are fire for telling the truth, I rely on [http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/].

I too use Thunderbird for RSS feeds. My list of 10 feeds, however, does not include news sources. My list includes a Web site hosting stories by amateur authors (some quite good), blogs, podcasts, and announcements of software updates,

So... 9.21 terajoules per kiloton.(Interesting restatement of the more common MJ/kg which is the same numeric value...)
Liquid hydrogen is "only" 13x more energy-dense at 120 MJ/kg, but whereas N6 combusts to N2 which is is plain old air (unless of course it's 100% N2 in which case it's a very up-to-date gas chamber) nasty old hydrogen combusts to dangerous DHMO so best to get rid of it.

Spectrum's fiber optic cables in southern California were recently cut, knocking out Internet and phone service across several very populous counties. It took several hours to repair. It appears the vandalism was caused by thieves thinking the cables contained copper. Copper theft has become a major problem across the U.S., affecting residential plumbing, public street lighting, and electrical service.

I am glad I have an over-sized solar electric system on my roof and a 12 hour backup battery.

According to the 17 June Los Angeles Times, the outage extended from western Ventura County (including Ojai and the city of Ventura) to central Orange County (including Anaheim),

The service disruption was not localized to Van Nuys. I live in eastern Ventura County about 22 miles from Van Nuys and have Internet service through Spectrum. During the disruption, I kept losing my Internet connection.

When I called Spectrum about the problem, I was told that, not only Internet service, but also cable TV and VOIP phone service was affected. I was also told that the problem would be corrected by 5:30pm Pacific time. It was actually corrected sooner. Also, we never lost cable TV. We do not have VOIP phone service.

Other users should not have to pay for Amazon's insatiable diet for electricity. If Amazon want more, they should pay for it. That is also true elsewhere, especially in the U.S., where state utility regulators keep raising the cost of electricity on everyone to meet the demand from growing data centers.