Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Collective Iceboxes
Refrigerators are the most energy consumptive home appliances. They throw out of gobs of heat particularly at the times of highest demand contributing to heat islands where there are too many refrigerators in close proximity. It's time to stop this wasteful practice of PORs. It is time to promote public refrigerators. Large community freezers capable of handling hundreds even thousands of households' daily cooling needs thus taking an equal number of wasteful PORs off the "grid." Additionally, because the poor tend to own the oldest, least efficient PORs, the community benefits by also subsidizing their participation. Sure the inconvenience will meet with resistance so we'll have to make the switch by introducing a few minor public policy inducements. We'll allow dwelling units to be built with kitchens too small for an adequate fridge. We'll use public money to build the collective coolers so that people will be freed from the burden of high purchase prices for owning one's own "reefer." We may even need to subsidize operations in order to meet participation goals.
Okay, by now everyone is probably thinking, "this is insane" and you'd be right but reread the above paragraph and tell me how it differs from how we approach transit in the US. Every comment above is straight out of every transit advocacy talking points manual I've ever heard.
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12 comments:
Freedom is hard to control when everyone has their own and can use it when ever they wish. Centralizing allows government control in the end. IMO.
When we are going to stay for a hurricane we let the icemaker run on blissfully and fill it with frozen foods.
With a community fridge after a hurricane the nice National Guardsman will be there to protect the food and hand it out on a needs basis regardless of prior ownership.
So enough of everything n but not too much.
Rob, you forgot to fund the community fridge with a consumption tax on refrigerated good. Then when the consumer changes their refrigeration habits in response to the new market force and leaves the fridge underfunded you have to subsidize by taxing other goods and privatizing the fridge.
Who controls the thermostat. Warm beer or ice cold. I see a revolt coming. LOL!
You'll pay for Ballast Point and get Bud and like it! Just like transit.
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Has Trump reached maximum creepiness?
I have no doubt Trump has an endless supply of new outrageousness. Mueller however has certainly crossed any number of lines that you cannot step back across.
Like whar?
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