I am sure you have seen the weights that tension the cables. There is only so much they can take up before the weights hit the ground. After that the cables sag. A certain amount of that they can take though trains need to go slower to avoid pulling the wires down. After that certain point, the sag makes running trains impossible.

Mine got to 38.4C around 5pm, and has been dropping ever since. 37.2 now. Body's core temperature.

There could be a bit of splash-flash-bang here as it appears to moving in from both the South West and the North West.....

Oh how glad I was that someone else was paying the electricity bill. The gas bill must have ben very small as I never used the gas fired furnace that provided the whole house heating.

I understand that much of relativity and the maths involved. Understanding why is another thing altogether. I could try complaining to the designer but don't think I would get very far.

the information is available to the public. The link worked for me.

Access Denied
Error 16
www.ercot.com
2022-07-19 17:20:56 UTC
 
If you believe you have a valid business reason for accessing ERCOT resources, please contact the ERCOT ServiceDesk at ServiceDesk@ercot.com.

 Please provide the ServiceDesk with the information supplied below.

Your IP: 80.229.155.158

Error code: 16
 > This request was blocked by the security rules
 
What happened?
This request was blocked by the security rules
Your IP: 80.229.155.158
Proxy IP: 45.60.47.66 (ID 101583-100)
Incident ID: 1583000190099545948-479793476799497420

At least they recognize Dunning-Kruger before they go down that rabbit hole.

Or, "I the Great Peter didn't write the regulation, therefore it is crap and wrong."

I've yet to meet a person who has violated Einstein's regulation not to exceed the speed of light. I also have met very few who have any clue why that regulation exists.

LA in San Pedro or LA in the Valley. San Pedro has the Pacific to moderate the climate. With months at a time of highs in the 40's and peaks in the 50's A/C is necessary for life to be sustained.

Of course you don't need a heater for your in ground swimming pool, expect maybe in Dec-Feb.

Never mind the petrol to do your 45 minute commute each way daily to the job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio
oh, for Peter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_seasonal_energy_efficiency_ratio

It's a shame such a potentially useful resource is blocked by "security rules".
Unlike the UK & French (and probably a whole lot more countries) who have made such information open to the public.

Blame the "GREENIES" that have eliminated a good portion of our Coal & Natural Gas powered generation. Instead Generating reserves now have been replaced with UNRELIABLE Solar & Wind. Then there's a virtual prohibited new generation unless it's "green" energy by the Biden administration.

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council Of Texas) real time energy dashboard.
Edit to add not going further into this here, that's for a different topic on this board.

No, I mentioned how much power I was using in my house, that includes AC, lighting, computers, TV, everything. I never suggested that power consumption was AC.

In that post you said:

I don't have a thermometer outside, but the garage is 37C, that's with the side door and two windows open, and two powerful fans blowing into it. Ok, there are 6 computers running in there...[1]

[1] Is 28.7A at 246V quite a lot for continuous power draw?

So, not house, not AC, but garage. And computers plus fans only then.

If you were to be seriously thinking about a system (see previous post) then you would have to make sure that the specifier understood that you had five or six kilo watts of heat being added by your computers, that is unless they are in a separate building to the house (detached garage or shed) so they size everything correctly.

Or put the computers in growth tents and have them dump their heat via insulated pipes outside the building. An example with 1 computer is done here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ZnAwUg9CU

Lol, The Texas energy provider this morning asked begged all EV vehicle owners NOT TO CHARGE OR TOP OFF FOR THE NEXT DAY OR SO.

24kW - your supply is undersized,

or you don't need an HVAC system that big.

I've seen many rules of thumb to size HVAC systems for houses, but they are all based on rather strange assumptions. If you were to be seriously thinking about a system (see previous post) then you would have to make sure that the specifier understood that you had five or six kilo watts of heat being added by your computers, that is unless they are in a separate building to the house (detached garage or shed) so they size everything correctly. As a very rough guide expect to see a UK domestic whole house HVAC system being something in the region of 5 to 10kW, maybe a bit less cooling and a bit more heating in the frozen north.

Quite simple - you brought up air conditioning and asked a very non-specific question, and got an answer to compare your use with something I know a lot about.

Anyway, I really hope your £430 unit dumps the extracted heat out of the your house as I've seen far to many of those small units that just dump the heat somewhere else in the room/building with obvious results.....

Decent HVAC units are sadly far from cheap, and it's probably not worth spending even £430 on a unit for the few days when they may be needed.

(Totally unlike my place in LA where spending money on a whole house heating system was stupid for those few days when it was cool, never mind proper cold, but the whole house HVAC system was all but essential from March to October/November.)

Not really a lot, that's less than the HVCA load presented by ONE Eurostar coach (33kW at peak cooling at a power factor of 0.9).
Now, what's the volume of a Eurostar coach - 2.5m x 2.5m x 17.7m (44.2m^2) - how does that compare with the volume of your place?

I did understand, and just used a very simple fact to show how little power you are really using.
Who ever specified your kit either got their calculations very wrong, or you were too cheapskate to buy what you were told, resulting in a way under specified system.

Oh dear, you have just described yourself, unable to understand that you've been brainwashed because its been done so successfully.
Yup, you will never understand how well you've been brainwashed by the "alt-society collective". So go on, rant and rage because your cover has been blown.