rolling blackouts? wrong. you people have NO idea what you are talking about.
to those bashing, you are showing your ignorance.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it...
The
California electricity crisis (also known as the
Western Energy Crisis) of
2000 and
2001 resulted from the gaming of a partially deregulated California energy system by energy companies such as
Enron and
Reliant Energy. The energy crisis was characterized by a combination of extremely high prices and
rolling blackouts. Price instability and spikes lasted from May 2000 to September 2001. Due to price controls, utility companies were paying more for electricity than they were allowed to charge customers, forcing the bankruptcy of
Pacific Gas and Electric and the public bail out of
Southern California Edison. This led to a shortage in energy and therefore, blackouts.
Rolling blackouts began in June 2000 and recurred several times in the following 12 months.
So you're right, I thought the last time that stuff happened was just a few years ago. However, it's impossible for anyone to argue that our country and the world at large does not have a serious energy problem. I find it funny that out of all the things I said, you quote the one thing that was wrong and say that I have no idea about what I'm talking about. Take a moment to think about the bigger picture and you'll see I'm far from ignorant. Gas in my area is 4.15-4.35$ per gallon for 87 octane and that's fairly common for the rest of this country. The oil in the middle east IS RUNNING OUT and there is A LOT LESS than about 99% of people realize. Your state has a serious smog problem, in LA especially. Yet here this genius is running over 10,000 watts and thinking he has serious skillz for growing big plants. If he was smart, he would stick to a sog setup and if he did have serious skills, he would do a vertical grow as well. Maybe he could show how smart he is and develop a program to automatically adjust the pH and nutrients to keep them at the optimum level or try pushing the technological envelop by making and testing LED lights (like Steve and others over at Greenpinelane.com) which will be the light source of the future. However he does none of this, yet he talks as if he's god's gift to growing.
This is the first time I've talked bad about anyone on a grow site, ever. Talking shi$ like he does has no place on this site, and that's why I responded. After this post I'll unsubscribe to this thread.
