Thursday, October 21, 2010

Residential electricity rates

Residential electricity rates are difficult to understand. It takes a PhD to read a utility bill. Rates are based on a tier system, similar to a progressive tax system's tax bracket. The more juice you use, the higher rates will be. There is a baseline usage whose rate is lowest.

For a baseline usage of 12.1 kWh per day and PG&E's Electric Schedule E-1 published are used in the following plots. .

Rate per kWh in tabular form



Monthly payment of electricity bill.


Cost breakdown
Now that you have paid your electricity bill, how does that cost breakdown? For the Tier 1 rate, the power plants get about 5 cents out of a total 12 cents. PG&E which is responsible for distribution and transmission gets about 5 cents. The rest of 2 cents pay for all kinds of fees.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

鱼-fish

Translations for fishes

三文鱼 Salmon
八爪鱼 Octopus
加吉鱼 Sea Bream
墨鱼 Cuttlefish
多宝鱼 Turbot
多春鱼 Shisamo
太湖银鱼 Taihu Silver Fish
小黄鱼 Small Yellow Croakers
左口鱼 Halibut
带鱼 Ribbonfish
扁鱼 Silver Carp
桂鱼 Mandarin Fish
武昌鱼 Wuchang Fish
比目鱼 Flatfish
甲鱼 Turtle
石斑鱼 Sea Bass
花枝片 Sliced Squid
草鱼 Grass Carp
酥鱼 Crucian Carp
金枪鱼 Tuna
长江鲥鱼 Hilsa Herring
马哈鱼 Salmon
马鲛鱼 Mackerel 又叫做橡皮鱼
鱼翅 Shark’s Fin
鱼肚 Fish Maw
鱼贝 Scallops
鱿鱼 Squid
鲈鱼 Perch
鲍鱼 Abalone
鲔鱼 Tuna
鲟 Sturgeon
鲢鱼 Silver Carp
鲫鱼 Crucian Carp
鲳鱼 Pomfret
鲶鱼 Cat Fish
鲽鱼 Flatfish
鳕鱼 Codfish
鳗鱼 Eel
鳟鱼 Bulltrout
龙利 Flounder
Snapper