Sitting, working. Suddenly something crows loudly throughout the apartment. I yell to Nadya – what’s that? She says: I don’t know what is crowing over there. I almost felt like getting back to work; after all, who knows what’s crowing in our three-story house. I was about to give up guessing, although it was indeed weirdly loud. Then I remembered.
About two years ago, I bought a doorbell. And I plugged it into a socket (imagine how that would have sounded 20 years ago!). The button, powered by a battery, was stuck on the door with double-sided tape. Bought it, installed it in a minute, and forgot about it. And finally, someone rang it!
A girl at the door was asking how we feel about the Virginia VCEA law, stating that part of the money we pay for electricity would go towards building all sorts of windmills and demolishing thermal power plants. I say hmm well great, why not. She goes – but the bills are insane. Basically, she was leading up to the topic of whether to install solar panels on my roof using their services, and in case of surplus, they would even pay us for generation. I’m somewhat familiar with this topic, but sorry, not this time. It’s actually a solid topic, just that the return on investment takes 10-15 years at best and then the profits start trickling in very slowly. I wasn’t taught to plan that far ahead, but Americans often go for it. Good for them, really.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 