Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Show me the FIOS

The next thing that should be piped into my home is without a doubt fiber optic connectivity via FIOS or someone else. ComcastBusiness cable internet is proving to be quite satisfactory--paying extra for the business-class account means no b.s., no port blocking and English-speaking support if I ever need it (which, so far, I haven't)--but its bandwidth doesn't measure up to the raw speed of fiber.


Fiber Optic Vortex

It won't be solar-powered electricity, that's for sure. We had an engineer from Regrid Power out to do an evaluation of our roof and determined that it's unsuitable in almost every way; wrong orientation, wrong angle, too much shade, barrel tiles difficult to work with.



Our next likely option for energy-efficiency is replacing the rather old standard water heater with a tankless model.

|| Andrew, 10:12 AM || ||

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