They are doing some fiber work in my area (L/A) cant wait for it to go live so I can ditch Spectrum finally. Honestly 2GB is overkill, 1/1 is more than most anyone would ever need.

I saw that was well, I laughed because I knew of that fact as well. Marketing right? Ha!

You've never once asked about something online? Never asked people their thoughts on Reddit about something you aren't sure about? a DIY project, a hobby?

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I call bullshit.

Same principle. Jesus why is that so hard for people to understand?

Let’s make it less money then, so you’ll go spend $20 on something you know nothing about because “it’s local!”

I’ve been to places where the reviews are good and the place is not good (to me) and the exact opposite. But if multiple people say it’s good then it’s a good chance it is, if multiple say no, probably a chance it isn’t good and we find somewhere else.

And it isn’t a bad thing to not blindly go somewhere, show up, spend money and time to then find out it’s not good.

Do people buy a car simply because someone says “just go support your local car dealer”? No. It’s the same thing.

As much as that is a standard statement around here, i prefer to find out if something is decent or not before I spend money on it.

Treehouse Maple in Auburn

The new place they built a train as the sugar house is around the corner from my house, anyone know if it’s any good?

No worries, underground would be amazing everywhere, but all the money, upkeep, etc. can be astronomical.

Even the ground above the pipes should be kept clear of vegetation so that roots don’t penetrate or shift conduits, now another added cost.

I get the idea the OP is trying to spin, but it just isn’t feasible.

No, you can’t bury excessive amounts of power underground. Insulation is the issue.

It’s also somewhere on the order of 7-8x more expensive to run underground.

The maximum voltage underground is way less than overhead, so that means it takes more lines and more conduits to feed more power I believe it is like 70kv vs 400kv so there's that part.

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Thats a huge, and I mean HUGE expenditure before you even move one ounce of electricity, and with pre-existing lines it makes no sense to do that based on cost alone. Now you want to add in the infrastructure of all that solar in the middle of the highway?

Mainers love the idea of underground power, hell I have it in my neighborhood, but I also have a pole at the corner of our road that ties into other poles. Trenching underground is an expensive proposition.

No one in their right mind would replace existing lines that can carry close to 6x the power that already exist with underground lines.

I’m not, plow guys does the driveway. I’ve got a small snowblower for my deck which I usually do twice to keep extra weight off it.

This is going to all melt over the next week anyway.

Not a fan of Lightspeed Briefs? 😀

I see what you did there =)

He doesn’t make them for sale, but I imagine I could ask him.

And what would you propose is a solution?

Good retort there. If someone makes money it isn’t a crime and it isn’t wrong, it’s how they act as a person. I don’t fault anyone being rich, they either earned it, got lucky, or were given it. All of which you or I could also do in one fashion or another.

Being jealous of those individuals is understandable, they have so much money, why don’t they give to things I want, etc.

It’s “what-about-ism” at its finest.

Explain why?

For sure, don’t say tabernac up north, it’s like screaming the C word in a room full of women.

You wouldn't catch me on a lake right now, the ice is shit,

This is it right here.

It means chalice, or the chalice that the wine for church is in, its slang and when used is considered a curse term, like god dammit, or Jesus Christ!

3200 square foot colonial, my bill this month is $347. We do have a hot tub, so thats a fair amount of electricity. No heat pumps here.

Filled up the tank for the 2nd time in the last 12 months, we dont use a ton of heating oil, 2x6 construction with spray foam insulation and smart thermostats in the entire home. Makes a huge difference.

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Entire home is all LED lights, inside and outside. Our biggest consumers of power are (not really in order):

1. Oven
2. Dryer
3. Hot Tub

After those, everything else is minimal draw. (in the winter)

In the summer it climbs to as high as $500 for a month with the stand up A/C units we use in the home, my plan is to install a couple of heat pumps to dehumidify the house and "cool it" so that I am not using the ridiculously inefficient A/C units all the time.

So there's a place outside of Canton, a small farm that does their own Wagyu, I just cant recall the name of it....somewhere near Hartford I think.
Found it when we had to drive from Canton over to Harrison. Ill see if I can find the info.

Central Maine, L/A area