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What Causes Short Circuits in the Home?
We like to talk about electricity on this blog; that’s no surprise, given the services we offer! We’ve offered a number of technical articles explaining what exactly short circuits are, so we won’t go into too much detail here; basically, when a circuit becomes...
Lowering Your Electric Bill in Winter
I’m writing this post in late February, after a vicious cold snap that came through Winnipeg has finally dissipated. The weather was awful for weeks, so cold that even outdoor sports lovers were probably bundled up inside, the temperature dipping into the below 40s...
Wires, In Colour
On our last post, we went over the different ways the international community measures wires. Here’s a brief summary: in North America, we use a gauge system, where the smaller the gauge, the bigger the wire. In most of the rest of the world, they measure the...
Plug In To The World
I remember gaming as a kid, and hearing about NTSC and PAL standards; my NTSC console wouldn’t work in Europe, because they used PAL. That information never ended up being relevant to me, because by the time I had the ability to travel to Europe all the standards...
Wire Gauges
In North America, we like to do things differently. I assume this is mostly because of the influence of the United States, and their reluctance to adopt the metric system. Here’s an example: in North America, we use letter-sized papers, the dimensions of which are...
Smart Electricity
For Christmas this year, I got a single smart light bulb. It’s quite a bit of fun; I can ask my Alexa to change the light’s colour from blue to pink, turn the light on or off, and even create a schedule for the lighting. That’s all pretty exciting, especially from a...
The Dangers of Damaged and Exposed Wire
MacBook chargers are incredibly expensive, so my partner decided she wouldn’t buy another one until she absolutely needed to. We watched as the charger became frayed, and the wiring became exposed; I told her it was a fire hazard, she told me she’d be extra careful....
Power Outages in Manitoba
I’m going to call power outages inconvenient, because the tenants of writing for a website that’s accessible by people of all ages include not using more...powerful words. We’re quite lucky in Winnipeg; we don’t face some of the more catastrophic weather events that...
Energy Security
It goes without saying that energy is important, which is a funny phrase to use as a rhetorical flourish, because I’m going to tell you how important it is anyway. You’re reading this on a phone or computer right now, unless you printed it out (if so, thank you,...
The 1973 Oil Crisis
On our last blog post, we discussed energy security, and how much of what makes energy “secure” is the ability for citizens to purchase the energy source. Much energy, including electrical energy, is created by fossil fuel power plants, and a cutback in oil supply...
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