If you are not keeping the law around drug production and use your not going to keep the electric box up to code.

Or just change it themselves if you opted for a reduced rate to allow them to do so

Reminds me of the snowpocalypse in Texas a few years ago, where the entire power grid failed because billionaires and office buildings refused to turn off the lights. It was like a solid week of hard freeze, and the “rolling” blackouts were pretty consistently only blacked out in poorer areas. People were shitting in grocery bags, because their toilets were frozen solid after what was essentially an entire week of no power in subzero temps. It turned into an even bigger scandal when people’s power finally turned back on for a few minutes, and they realized their thermostats were remotely being set to like 50 degrees. All while office buildings and the rich parts of town were all lit up like Christmas trees.

IIRC that’s also where the Fled Cruz memes came from, because in the middle of the ice storm, Ted Cruz (state senator) tried to flee to Cancun. And all of his constituents immediately started talking about how he was the reason the power grid was unprepared… I think he pushed to cut/deregulate the grid’s winterization? But then they reelected him, because nothing pairs better than “conservatives” and “voting against your own self-interests.”

All while everyone is racing to build new nuclear plants (microsoft fucking bought their own), Trump dumping money into the pockets of his handlers in oil, gas and fucking coal companies. Read the linkedin (gag) article announcing the new "AI EP" from yesterday--its a literal who's who of shitty companies CEOs cheering the bill they paid for cheering "responsible AI" which references "non-ideological bias".

All that is to say, the power companies don't care--they aren't shutting off businesses. The dystopian future when hospitals are on generators running off (of course) gas because the coal plants can't generate enough AI deep fake videos of voter fraud in California is upon us. The senior citizen on oxygen's power is being shut off before Grok's so they can make sure the accurate information about the 4th Reich is generated.

Read a horrific story once about one of those falling on a lineman. Like a modern-day version of boiling oil during a medieval siege. It's pretty fucking crazy we just suspend them overhead all over the place in the right-of-way where trucks and shit can hit them.

You'd think with modern LED setups this would be null and void. It's quite wild to see a lot of older schooled growers still using sodium lamps and other high heat, high energy lighting fixtures and getting caught, wasting energy, etc.

Now days modern LEDs are multi fold more efficient. You'd also think that if someone was doing bad deeds illegally they'd be more inclined to stick to a more strict standard.

I guess criminals never did have much standards.. Organized crime excluded and even then some organized crime syndicates aren't fully organized in a manner that detection is impossible. They just aren't a nuisance enough to warrant the big league agencies. Local LEOs are definitely picking up new tech and evolving faster as the money rolls in these last 10 years.

Police raided my house because our electricity usage was 4x my neighbors.

They 'surveilled' my house and then got a search warrant which said they saw Metal Halide lights, which, in this pig's expert opinion are only used for growing Marijuana (they're used for literally everything that grows under the sun). Tinfoil on the window, which "is used in marijuana grow operations" and because I had a window AC unit "used in grow houses to cool the lights".

When they showed up despite not there obviously not being a grow operations, they destroyed my house, punched holes in the walls, unseated my toilets, pulled my grandfather's military burial flag out of it's case and unfolded it. Then left it on the ground, stepping on it as they searched. They also stole $125 in cash off of my desk.

They found a few saltwater tanks full of corals and 4 people with gaming PCs. There was no money to cover the damages, no apology, just 'well you guys are free to go' and then they left.

It doesn't matter to them if their flawed methods have false positives, they're protected from any liability personal or otherwise.

It’s definitely the patterns. What I’m saying is the patterns are not any different for cannabis versus any other photoperiod plant. Cannabis isn’t the only thing you veg under 18/6 and flower under 12/12 light cycles. It’s not illegal to grow plants indoors and if I spend 5kW doing it every day that’s nobody’s business but my own. I’ll use my joules however I feel.

That said, it seems like the way to defeat this type of analysis would be to invest in batteries so you can always have a constant 24h drain rather than 5kW turning on every day at the same time for 18 or 12 hours.

FBI OPEN UP!!!!

I've got friends who grow indoor, and have a pretty big solar array, and their PGE bill is still fucking high. You need hella batteries I guess, but those are expensive.

Ac and server/gaming PCs. We live in Texas though

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No I think they got it spot on.