# 1 thing that annoyed me...

That the lady playing Jessie is a horrible fake crier. Gosh her tears were so unauthentic! Shame on her!

 

3. I think Deanna is trying to set an example, but when her back is turned, everyone says, "Screw this, I'll use electricity".

 

I agree, this is probably the point they are conveying, but in reality those solar panels wouldn't even allow these things. Garage door openers, everyone using their oven, everyone with a refrigerator.... You'd need probably somewhere around an acre or two of solar panels to support this kind of thing for a community of 45 people. They have six 5x10 foot panels.

 

I don't know sometimes when I just wanna relax I use candles, she obviously has power she played the nine inch nails song (which I thot was awesome) but I didn't get the impression she was doing it to save power- but to maybe relax...

 

They weren't playing that to relax..

 

Flip-clock some kind of "Groundhog Day" ref. Same time.

 

Well maybe relax wasn't the right word.. I was just saying, I use candles sometimes instead of the lights. I don't think its uncommon to use em. More important how did they get there power back on? I'm not trying to be nit picky- I really didn't get the impression in that scene w/deanna that she was trying to save power- but also last week Sam said his house didn't have power either. I didn't see Eugene grab a whole bunch of those converters or whatever they found before carrying Tara out. I thot they didn't grab any!? So how they fixed it- is kinda a mystery. Maybe it isn't completely broken? They just have to use less.. I don't know?? I really don't. My point was just that scene w/the candles made sense to me, using the candles maybe not to relax, or chill, but its not uncommon. Jessie shut the garage door I think too to make a point.
I don't know.

 

1. Walkers are attracted to the walls even though they cant see in and no one is making a lot of noise. Then when they do make noise, they don't see to come in bunches.

2. Carl striking out. Give the kid some action.

 

I was under the impression they were using candles as part of their period of mourning Aiden. It looked like it was just setting a calm scene for them to listen to the last songs that Aiden heard before he died. I don't think it had anything to do with trying to conserve electricity.

 

How much energy do automatic garage door openers even use? It seems to me that it wouldn't be a constant use of energy like a light switch . . . just a quick usage and then it's done. Factor in that people aren't gonna use them everyday and people who do only would a few times a day, and I doubt it's much energy drain at all.

 

We have 6 solar arrays, not panels. Each array consists of 20 panels. Assuming each panel is 300 watts , 8.8 amps and 36 volts, we have 36000 watt, a little over a 1000 amps, and a little over 4000 volts.

 

Right, not nearly enough power to do anything close to what they are portraying.

 

Hot water heater and heating and cooling are the biggest users of electricity in a home. Also people dont have perishables as they once didso most people wouldnt be running a refrigerator now. When I was in college, we studied a house called the Griffin 2,it took advantage of all resources th environment had to offer. Its dependence on electricity was greatly reduced.

I would say the ASZ has enough electricity to met their needs. Deanna said it was a green community. So to me that means super efficient homes taking advantage of what the environment has to offer such passive heating and cooling, solar hot water heaters, maybe even geo thermal heating and cooling. There are a lot of ways to reduce electrical independence.

 

Man.... if you are irritated by these things, you should move on...

1. Your sickness and anger of Noah means the show is working on you. Love it or hate it, it's drawing up emotions while watching.

2. You are severely "knit-picking". I mean, who cares? It was in her house for who knows what reason and most likely there when she moved in. Or maybe she likes it? Michonne has been known to have her own weird taste in furnishings. Remember the crazy colored cat she pulled out to keep in I believe the Clear episode?

3. Did you not notice her son Aiden die? Candles are often used as some sort of death procession, vigils, etc... That night she was specifically using candles to mourn the loss of her son with her family. Candlelight is popular in faith for worship, ceremony and death. Which in this case, death.

 

I dont understand this? What do you mean?

 

Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas (and Father Gabriel in the last episode)

 

They don't have anywhere near enough solar energy to do what they are portraying, even with efficient homes. And those are more the size of 100W panels, not 300. I'm in the middle of something right now, but I"ll come back and show you the calculations, and give a picture of what their energy production would actually be.