The summer is right around the corner. I know what you are thinking. It is only February. Well, if you live in Houston, Texas, you know that all you get for winter is February. Spring is like a speeding bullet that zips by just as quickly, and then it is back to humid, sweltering temperatures in one of the largest cities in the country. Keeping a metropolis of 5.9 million electrified with heat, air conditioning and power, gassed for heating and cooking, and pumped for plumbing and drinking water is no easy task, even for the large skilled workforce in Houston. Take into account fluctuations in utility and raw resource market value, population migration and flow, natural disasters, three major sports teams and stadiums and a culture that utterly suckles off of natural resources and you have a very challenging city to take care of. (Oh yeah, do not forgot rush hour traffic!)
Energy conservation contentiously tops the laundry list of challenges that face Houston, Texas. In ways that only nature can understand, we are all still alive and living lives of unheard of conveniences, appliances and expending resources at rates never before thought possible. Never before thought possible is a phrase I might use to describe the state of the utilities industry at large. Utilities, ironically, seem like an afterthought for the average American. What toasts your toast? Where does the power of toast come from? Shall we take a look at the energetic flow of toast from start to finish? Yes.
After about 300 million years of an ongoing cycle of creation, destruction and evolution we have a farmer growing grain (or being paid not to grow grain) somewhere on the globe. Adjacently, oil that has been liquefying for thousands of years is getting pumped out of the same ground the grain is growing out of and being refined into a resource usable to an electrical plant. The grain is getting milled and turned into flour, then turned into bread. The oil is getting burned and turned into steam that turns giant turbines that are spinning about in vast dynamos that are generating electricity. An electrician Houston trusts is wiring the whole city, and juice gets to flowing.
You buy the bread from Wal-Mart and take it home, where you plug in your toaster, plop two slices of white bread into magic toast slots, and depress the toasting lever. You sigh. It feels good to depress that lever. Magically, electricity is transmitted from the universe to your home and your fingertips and your toaster, and, lastly, into electric hot wires that touch your bread till it is toasted to your liking. (Or, if it is a not so great toaster, it toasts it to its own liking, which is usually a lot more burnt than you like it.)
So here we all are, enjoying the toast of quite an extensive planet wide community effort. What more brilliant task could we accomplish? Improve the system! This summer, when you are enjoying the great balance that modern conveniences help you to achieve, why not try turning the air conditioning off for an hour or two in the evening? Open up your aching windows and let the breeze of simplicity blow in.
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On Time Electric is located at 1111 Rusk Suite 5, Houston, TX 77002 and provides one hour and same day service for homes and businesses throughout the Houston metro area. On Time Electric and Air is the electrician Houston trusts.
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