Re: Power cost for the wold.
Re: Power cost for the wold.
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Duke of Buckingham
Looks like it's time to move to my wife's hometown of Tulsa.
Re: Power cost for the wold.
I will post tomorrow an article about the costs of electric power. Taking the all world. It seems tough that the better organization on this issue is EISA the American agency that deals on electric power.
Europe seems completely lost on the politics about this issue. It seems there is no political will to take this matter as an all European politics.
Europe seems to me completely lost on many things this is just one more, or one less.
The huge differences among power prices in the United States seems immoral once in the same country people pay so different (and huge difference) prices for the same service. But about that you should know better than me.
The price for insularity (islands) should be divided among all users but this only my point of view.
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The Science of Electricity
Everything Is Made of Atoms
In order to understand electricity, we need to know something about atoms. Everything in the universe is made of atoms — every star, every tree, every animal. The human body is made of atoms. Air and water are, too. Atoms are the building blocks of the universe. Atoms are so small that millions of them would fit on the head of a pin.
Atoms Are Made of Even Smaller Particles
The center of an atom is called the nucleus. It is made of particles called protons and neutrons. The protons and neutrons are very small, but electrons are much, much smaller. Electrons spin around the nucleus in shells a great distance from the nucleus. If the nucleus were the size of a tennis ball, the atom would be the size of the Empire State Building. Atoms are mostly empty space.
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If you could see an atom, it would look a little like a tiny center of balls surrounded by giant invisible bubbles (or shells). The electrons would be on the surface of the bubbles, constantly spinning and moving to stay as far away from each other as possible. Electrons are held in their shells by an electrical force.
The protons and electrons of an atom are attracted to each other. They both carry an electrical charge. Protons have a positive charge (+) and electrons have a negative charge (-). The positive charge of the protons is equal to the negative charge of the electrons. Opposite charges attract each other. An atom is in balance when it has an equal number of protons and electrons. The neutrons carry no charge and their number can vary.
The number of protons in an atom determines the kind of atom, or element, it is. An element is a substance consisting of one type of atom (the Periodic Table shows all the known elements), all with the same number of protons. Every atom of hydrogen, for example, has one proton, and every atom of carbon has six protons. The number of protons determines which element it is.
Electricity Is the Movement of Electrons Between Atoms
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Electrons usually remain a constant distance from the nucleus in precise shells. The shell closest to the nucleus can hold two electrons. The next shell can hold up to eight. The outer shells can hold even more. Some atoms with many protons can have as many as seven shells with electrons in them.
The electrons in the shells closest to the nucleus have a strong force of attraction to the protons. Sometimes, the electrons in an atom's outermost shells do not. These electrons can be pushed out of their orbits. Applying a force can make them move from one atom to another. These moving electrons are electricity.
Static Electricity Exists in Nature
Lightning is a form of electricity. It is electrons moving from one cloud to another or jumping from a cloud to the ground. Have you ever felt a shock when you touched an object after walking across a carpet? A stream of electrons jumped to you from that object. This is called static electricity.
Have you ever made your hair stand straight up by rubbing a balloon on it? If so, you rubbed some electrons off the balloon. The electrons moved into your hair from the balloon. They tried to get far away from each other by moving to the ends of your hair. They pushed against each other and made your hair move — they repelled each other. Just as opposite charges attract each other, like charges repel each other.
Re: Power cost for the wold.
That chart says "13.09 - 21.21". Keep in mind that is an average of the lowest tier, from the various power companies. That's because we have a progressive rate system, similar to our federal tax rates. The first little bit used (per month) is charged at a very small rate, then slightly more more for the next little bit, then F-YOU for anything over that. So the numbers they show for CA are WAY worse than they show in that chart.
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0-330 kWh $0.13 per kWh
331-429 kWh $0.15 per kWh
430-660 kWh $0.30 per kWh
661+ kWh $0.34 per kWh
I am never below 3000. Often SIGNIFICANTLY more during late summer.
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Portugal as a progressive price depending on how much we use of electricity also. I think most of the countries have that progressive (?tax?).
I was not very well yesterday, why did I post that electricity thing (The Science of Electricity), geeez?
I wanted to post something very different. I will search for it. The costs of electric power depending on the source, according to EISA (I think).
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