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Linux Is BestIf you think my electric bill is nonsense, wait until you see my gas bill (natural gas). My usage is less than $5, but they charge me over $30 just to deliver the gas.It really does suck that you can’t shop around for electric and gas delivery. You can only change the supplier — not the deliverer.<a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturalGas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/EverSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EverSource</a>

Linux Is BestIn the United States, you can choose who supplies your electricity (the supplier), but you cannot choose your electric company (the deliverer). So, no matter how energy-efficient you are, the delivery fee is where they really get you, and you cannot escape that nonsense.My usage is so low that it costs about $40, but the delivery fee varies between $60+.<a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Electric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Electric</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Energy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/EverSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EverSource</a>

Jonathan Kamens 86 47Here's today's <a href="https://federate.social/tags/TechIsShitDispatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechIsShitDispatch</a>, my ongoing series of threads demonstrating that the more you interact with tech, the more shitty tech you encounter, and if you look hard enough you'll probably discover that you encounter shitty tech that shouldn't be shitty every single day of your life. Today we've got new shitty teck from <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AirBNB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AirBNB</a>, <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SalemStateUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SalemStateUniversity</a>, and <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>, and an update on previously reported <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Synology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Synology</a> shitty tech. 🧵1/11

Universal Hub<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roslindale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roslindale</a> residents perhaps hoping today's power outage doesn't repeat tomorrow, when it gets even hotter <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2025/roslindale-residents-perhaps-hoping-todays-power-outage-doesnt-repeat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2025/roslindale-residents-perhaps-hoping-todays-power-outage-doesnt-repeat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubLights, AC go out across <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> and neighboring communities <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2025/lights-ac-go-out-across-boston-and-neighboring-communities" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2025/lights-ac-go-out-across-boston-and-neighboring-communities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubWhy stop at three? <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2025/why-stop-three" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2025/why-stop-three</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WestRoxbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WestRoxbury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Colin Cogle :verified:Last night’s nothing brought down a huge tree branch at five in the morning, knocking out our building’s power and blocking our only exit. For all the complaining we do about Eversource, they did have power restored in two hours, and the tree disappeared in six.(Obligatory “don’t go near downed wires.”)<a href="https://mastodon.colincogle.name/tags/Connecticut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Connecticut</a> <a href="https://mastodon.colincogle.name/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weather</a> <a href="https://mastodon.colincogle.name/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubUpdate, 4 p.m.: Power back. Eversource blames a problem at an Andrew Square substation.Power goes out across swath of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2025/power-goes-out-across-swath-boston" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2025/power-goes-out-across-swath-boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FiatLux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FiatLux</a>

Universal HubWoman who was injured when downtown manholes exploded sues <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2025/woman-who-was-injured-when-downtown-manholes-exploded-sues-boston" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2025/woman-who-was-injured-when-downtown-manholes-exploded-sues-boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawsuits</a>

Universal Hub311 complaint of the day: The stumpy half-a-pole in Hyde Park <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2025/311-complaint-day-stumpy-half-pole-hyde-park" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2025/311-complaint-day-stumpy-half-pole-hyde-park</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/poles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Comcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Comcast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Verizon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Verizon</a>

@nathanpbostonAfter being sent in circles for an answer to a simple eligibility question about the residential <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ConnectedSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConnectedSolutions</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DemandResponse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DemandResponse</a> program by <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MassSave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassSave</a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>, including MassSave.com sending me to Eversource.com then Eversource sending me to dead end, I sleuthed and found that they’ve outsourced customer support to energyhub.com. Waiting on an answer now six days from inquiry from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EnergyHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnergyHub</a>. <a href="https://www.masssave.com/en/residential/programs-and-services/connectedsolutions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.masssave.com/en/residential/programs-and-services/connectedsolutions</a>

Jonathan Kamens 86 47Hello <a href="https://federate.social/tags/BostonMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BostonMA</a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> electricity customers! Is your bill late this month? My billing period ends every 5th of the month, and I usually got an email about my bill a day or two later. However, I haven't received an email for October, and I just checked the web site and the most recent bill there is the one ending September 5. Anyone else with this problem, or just me? <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a>

Chuck DarwinNetworked geothermal power could change cities:‘Every building sits on a thermal asset’While temperatures above ground fluctuate throughout the year, the ground stays a stable temperature, meaning that it is humming with <a href="https://c.im/tags/geothermal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geothermal</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energy</a> that engineers can exploit. “Every building sits on a thermal asset,” said Cameron Best, director of business development at Brightcore Energy in New York, which deploys geothermal systems. ⭐️“I really don’t think there’s any more efficient or better way to heat and cool our homes.”⭐️And now the big utilities are beginning to take a good hard look at that system. A couple of months ago <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Energy</a> commissioned the US’s first 🔸networked geothermal neighbourhood 🔸operated by a utility, in Framingham, Massachusetts.Pipes run down boreholes 600-700ft (about 180-215 metres) deep, where the temperature of the rock is consistently 55F (13C). A mixture of water and propylene glycol (a food additive that works here as an antifreeze) pumps through the piping, absorbing that geothermal energy, then flows to 31 residential and five commercial buildings, where fully electric <a href="https://c.im/tags/heat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heat</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/pumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pumps</a> use the liquid to either heat or cool a space.If deployed across the country, these geothermal systems could go a long way in helping decarbonise buildings, which are responsible for about a third of total greenhouse gas emissions in the US.Once a system is in place, buildings can draw heat from water pumped from below their foundations, instead of burning natural gas piped in from afar. 🔹Utilities use the same equipment to deploy networked geothermal as they do for gas lines, and even the same kind of pipes – they are just circulating fluid instead of gas. ♦️The networks don’t need special geology to operate, so they can be set up almost anywhere. The project in Framingham, then, could be the start of something big.To scale up, a geothermal loop such as Framingham’s might connect to an adjacent neighbourhood, and that one to another. “In the end, what we would like is if the gas utilities become <a href="https://c.im/tags/thermal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thermal</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/utilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utilities</a>,” said Audrey Schulman, executive director of the nonprofit climate-solutions incubator <a href="https://c.im/tags/HEETlabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HEETlabs</a> (a spin-off of the climate nonprofit HEET, which began pitching the idea to Eversource and other utilities in 2017). “Each individual, shared loop can be interconnected, like Lego blocks, to grow bigger and bigger<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/09/every-building-sits-on-a-thermal-asset-how-networked-geothermal-power-could-change-cities?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/09/every-building-sits-on-a-thermal-asset-how-networked-geothermal-power-could-change-cities?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Universal HubYesterday's <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roslindale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roslindale</a> power outages caused by a cable that went bad under Belgrade Avenue, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> says <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/yesterdays-roslindale-power-outages-caused-cable" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/yesterdays-roslindale-power-outages-caused-cable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a>

Universal HubIn <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roslindale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roslindale</a> the lights came back on and then, for some, went out again <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/roslindale-lights-came-back-and-then-some-went-out" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/roslindale-lights-came-back-and-then-some-went-out</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubPart of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roslindale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roslindale</a> blinks out <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/part-roslindale-blinks-out" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/part-roslindale-blinks-out</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubPower goes out along Melnea Cass Boulevard <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/power-goes-out-along-melnea-cass-boulevard" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/power-goes-out-along-melnea-cass-boulevard</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roxbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roxbury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SouthBoston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthBoston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubPart of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roslindale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roslindale</a> with one of the neighborhood's worst intersections blinks out <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/part-roslindale-one-neighborhoods-worst" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/part-roslindale-one-neighborhoods-worst</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/driving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#driving</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a>

Universal HubState approves $1.5-billion <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> plan to bolster electrical supply in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CambridgeMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CambridgeMA</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SomervilleMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SomervilleMA</a> <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/state-approves-15-billion-eversource-plan-bolster" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/state-approves-15-billion-eversource-plan-bolster</a>

Universal Hub<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HydePark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HydePark</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CambridgeMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CambridgeMA</a> homeowners say natural gas is neither clean nor good for the environment, sue <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Eversource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eversource</a> for saying it is <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/2024/hyde-park-cambridge-homeowners-say-natural-gas" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.universalhub.com/2024/hyde-park-cambridge-homeowners-say-natural-gas</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawsuits</a>

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