How to lower your electric bill without sacrificing?

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Thong Tran

Well this may only work in the USA for most if not all power companies. For this example I will take PECO as example, but should be the same concept throughout the United States of America power company.

I know a lot of people knows about turning off lights when you don’t need, turn of that computer monitor screen or make it go to sleep or hibernate when not in use, buy Energy Appliance and so on. Well, so hectic isn’t it? but it work and save you some money over long run, yeah it work and doable, not sure how feasible, and probably a habit just need to switch it.

Then the Solar Power and Wind Turbine, so call natural power. Well some solar and wind turbine in the USA offered financing since it cost so much at least $25K for an average system that can power the whole house. Then some tax credit write off, and off course local state government voucher for buying solar and wind turbine installation cost that is, not the materials products itself. This also work, but not so much popular, and not sure how much money can be save, maybe in 15 years or so. However with careful calculation, if you’re paying $500 a month on electric bill, and maybe with this solar or wind turbine system you will be paying $400 a month, I think it’s worth it. Some system is smart, like the Grid-Tie system which is cheaper simply plug in and reverse the power meter, but you’re still paying for electricity to the electric company but cheaper since you produce power sell it back to power company through grid-tie inverter. So this might work.

Then the so call SCAM fraud method of third party power generation. For example from time to time you would receive a flyer in regard to your local power company will raise its price on electricity and you will be paying higher. Therefore this third party or I call it middle man comes in and offer you cheaper deal for example from FirstEnergy, cheap 7 cent vs. 8 cent from PECO. Well guess what? that’s not really the price, and you’re stuck with a contract and if you cancel the contract you will get penalized for $100 + . So do your homework before jumping to this middle man power company from no where. In my case, I got 7.23 cent kilowatts from FirstEnergy, but PECO charged me for generation of 10 cent, so the total comes out to be 17.23 cent. Now if I were to stick with PECO, I would be paying average of 15 cent or less instead of this 17.23 cent today and I’m stuck with the contract. So again, please do your homework before jumping to this middle man service power company saying they charge cheaper but really misleading information.

Finally last but not least, and I think it’s the best. Most power companies in the US today have special program such as Summer discount for installing a remote control device on the AC unit outside your house being controlled by the Power company on when to turn on and off during those hot summer months where a lot of power being use to power AC unit throughout the country. With this device installed, you will get discount or credit back to your bill I believe $20 to $60 maybe, it does help. Now the other options and many others similar to it, is the Time Energy plan. This plan basically charge you 6.5 cent for example from PECO for off peak time, then from 2pm to 6pm, they will charge you 16.5 cent as you can see 10 cent more more than double the price kilowatts per hour, that’s crazy, but if you know this in advance then maybe between 2pm to 6pm, avoid using any high energy appliance. Then from 6:01pm to 1:59pm max your equipment power usage such as Bitcoin Cryptocoin mining which uses a lot of power. Yep I think this will save you money, taking PECO example 6.5 cent is a good deal, but only for M-F. and also no hidden charge like the SCAM middle man third party electric bill like FirstEnergy mislead information on the price given not included the generation charge from electric company which is flexible and PECO could raise so high that what you’re switching to isn’t helping lower the price in fact some time a lot higher, what a scam huh?!

https://www.peco.com/CustomerService/CustomerChoice/PECOSmartTimePricing/Residential/Pages/Overview.aspx

Vietnam allowed protest against invasion of Chinese oil rig into Vietnam territorial water turned violence

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Thong Tran

I’m impressed, finally the Vietnamese communist regime in Vietnam allowed protest against China invasion territorial Vietnam water. As many people know in Vietnam when protest like this happening, the authority would beat up the protesters and sometime to death. Unfortunately it turned into a violence protest killed at least two Chinese, and over hundreds Chinese in Vietnam wounded. Finally on CNN front page, gained so much international attention now. Could be very bad for Vietnam but in a positive way that although a small country but will not give up fighting what belong to us. China had cut many ties to Vietnam in term of Financial and investments, could hurt Vietnam but again in a positive way for this outcome, basically not because of money but cultural pride. Highly recommend all Vietnamese inside and outside of state to avoid traveling to China and if you’re Vietnamese in China, expect the same treatment. http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/18/world/asia/vietnam-china-tensions/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

April month is the sadness month for the South Vietnamese all over the globe

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Thong Tran

Back in 1975, when the Viet Cong (Vietnam communist party) took control of Vietnam, many Vietnamese most if not all suffered the consequences. Many say that Vietnam was worst than what it was before, people went hungry, no support from outsider, not even their own communist regime ally like the Russia and Chinese. Not a surprise, later even their own military personnel in Vietnam, so call Viet Cong, even admitted that their government treated the people worst than when the American were around in Vietnam.

Years passed, knowing that their communist regime ally Chinese and Russian don’t help Vietnam much, the government decided to look else where and began to open door for trade. It was a desperate attempt, but a good workable solution. The country became a little more open for outsider, foreigner to visit and invest, and eventually export and import more open than before which in the end Vietnam today became one of the world fastest development country in the world. Although some old habits still exist such as bribery, the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Luckily, many Vietnamese in Vietnam whom have relatives live abroad, such as in America and Europe, will sends money home to support their family still back in Vietnam.

April 30th 1975 was the saddest day of Vietnam. People in Saigon, South Vietnam tried everything that they could to flees the countries with the American, but unfortunately there wasn’t enough seats for the voyage to Amerca. The American allowed theses folks to come with them to America, but just that limited tickets, seating for the long voyage. All ships were full, all military aircraft and even passengers plane were full. The last passenger plane flew out of Vietnam were overweight but luckily it made it out.

The Fall of Saigon April 30th 1975 Vietnam fall into the control of Communist regime.

For the people that got left behind, the communist took over the so call White House, or the south Vietnam government place, and that was it, some say not even a single shot fired. The communist basically walk in and was welcome, and took over the country.

There were many horrific stories about the war which I cannot go into detail, but the tragedy of war exist on any war. War is bad, but it’s the solution to a temporary problem. Negociation failed, can we blame both side leadership skills?

Just want to drop a few words

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Thong Tran

Hey yo! Haven’t got a chance to blog much lately. Been busy with projects at work and family. Well you know family first, job second, blog next.

A few things I have been doing. Research scrypt-n. If you’re into bitcoin mining, you would probably know scrypt mining. Basically bitcoin mine with sha256 algo, while scrypt and scrypt-n diff. algo. SHA256 no longer profitable mining with GPUs, all ASICs now. Scrypt ASIC now are available and the price are dropping, eventually ASIC script will take over scrypt mining as well. GPUs have good chances to sustain mining scrypt-n coins, not popular now but eventually it will be popular. Otherwise GPU will flood ebay, cheap price for gamer, if those GPU are still good, since due to the abuse of cryptocoin mining overclock, firmware modification and so on.

Malaysia airline 370, finally some closure, but still not proof yet. Based on intelligence data, the plane crashed into the ocean on the west coast of Australia, in the Indian ocean, no chance of anyone would survive. Search has been suspended due to bad weather. Just a a couple more days the beacon that send a signal will run out of battery and will be very difficult to find the plan beneath the ocean.

Samsung S5 mobile devices are coming out estimate April 11th 2014. Whilee M8 HTC One aiming for March 25th. Two very good competitors. AT&T have a very good deal with 4 lines phones, unlimited text and talk for and 10GB of share data plan for $160, maybe $150.

Tax are due soon, April 15th, so get your tax done as soon as possible. Highly recommend Turbo Tax, and get the lawyer at the end to protect yourself, even if your risk level is low. You don’t want to deal with the IRS directly, get a lawyer, it’s better. You never have to talk directly to the IRS, you simply provide turbo tax lawyer whatever requested and you’re good to go. Keep all your receipts or whatever you claimed, dollars value must match, and off course legitimate.

Finally the weather this year is unbelievable. East Coast USA here, already spring and we got snow!, that’s right snow! and freezing cold in the 20s at night and high 30s day time. Something tell me this summer will be cold. This time last year 2013 we already see 60s 70s temperature but not this year 2014

This video touched my heart if I ever make any extra money I will donate to the poor

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Thong Tran

Although this probably not the first time I seen these images, or hear of the stories, although it could be a fake, a make up, but deep in my heart I know it’s true and exist somewhere in the world. There are a lot of unfortunate people out there struggle to survive. Most of us takes things for granted. Some people say, the unfortunate one are the one that by choice they want to be, with a little education, they can do better in life. I don’t know about that.

OK so now I know Aliens and UFOs exists! This is proof.

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Thong Tran

OK so now I know Aliens and UFOs exists! This is proof. If we cannot detect an airplane flying or tracking it over many countries with above ground and undersea radar detector, then for sure Aliens and UFOs visited our planet all the time and no ones knows or sees, not even NASA with advance radar satellite and still missed it. Major disappointment! come no now! get your act together before I FIRE you all LOL Unbelievable.! Now I really know that asteroids and whatever coming toward earth, there will be a good chance earth will get destroyed by undetected asteroids or NEAR objects. I need a beer, make 2 beers, and it’s only Tuesday. If this happens in the USA I want all my tax back from the government! I’m so doubtful of human intelligence at this point even we worked together to solve this case. If aliens attacked earth, asteroids hit earth, what are human kind to do. Yes, pray to god . What SUP with the Chinese fortune teller and psychic? aren’t they suppose to tell us where the plane are or wha thappen to it? http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Latest Police beating brutality went spiral online social network

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Thong Tran

Just in case anyone missed. There is a video that went spiral on social media such as facebook, people are sharing it all over. However the truth isn’t what it seems. People are sharing the video like crazy, but they don’t take the time to think what really happened.

The video was captured by someone nearby with a mobile device cell phone, recording Police Brutality beating up an unarmed person on the ground appears to be naked. Police appears to strike a baton on the person’s leg multiple times. Looks brutal and to the people whom had bad experience with police will definitely have more hatred and start to rumors and come to quick conclusion of Police brutality.

Police brutality? not really, now if the Police really being brutal, then the baton would probably not going to strike on the person’s leg, but to the head or other part of the body, however it is still bad police because the person already on the ground. The other question is where is the rest of the video clips? how does this happens, I’m guessing either the person whom shot the video left it off or came to the scene late.

Bottom line, it was on the news. Appears to be the person was mentally retarded or mentally ill, so it could have been something he did to others like disturbing the peace, expose himself to people around there, trying to rape someone, robbery, even attempted murder, we don’t know, all we see was a video of a person got beaten by Police. Why not take the time and think, and ask questions, don’t just jump into conclusion based on what you see, think outside of the box.

Conclusion. I’ve blogged something similar, in the past related to Police brutality, school shootings, and so on. At the end of the day it all come down to the person being having some kind of disorder problem, mentally ill, retarded, medical problem, and so on. So as a result, I speaks of recommendation to flag these types of people. Taking this latest incident for example. The person was mentally ill, he might have did something unacceptable to the public and 911 was called. Now if this person was flagged as mentally ill, and the Police saw that flag the decision of solving this matter would have been different.

Bitcoin BTC slightly heading down appears to be struggling maintaining $1000 mark

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Thong Tran

After the China news indicated it’s not legal to trade Bitcoin as part of the bank financial business in China, however individual can still feel free to trade Bitcoin BTC at their own risk. To me, what this mean is that if something happens, your Bitcoin BTC got stolen, or your got scammed by the exchange business or individual, you cannot cry about it. Well this just point me toward violence! meaning if someone trade 30BT, that’s $30K, and they didn’t get the cash, I’m sure they will turn violent and possibly death, murder and so on due to Bitcoin, but in reality it’s not Bitcoin, but SCAM! Scam with anything, not just bitcoin, even just saying something offensive to someone could have deadly consequences.

Going back to the Bitcoin BTC moving downward, it is indeed moving down. It is struggling to maintain the thousand dollars mark. It hit 1000s a few days then down since yesterday, and still down now. This is based on the average of all exchange business, mtgox, coinbase, bitstamp, btce, campbx and so on. It’s really hard to predict accurately on when will bitcoin crashed and burn, or when Bitcoin will hit hundreds thousand dollars per BTC. No different than the stock market I guess.

The surprising thing is, Bitcoin BTC have little impact or reaction when there are bad news, from the stock market, from government investigations shutting down of Bitcoin exchange, and even this new China Bitcoin market not license to trade bitcoin for exchange business (financial institution), no impact or very little impact. Will see in the next few days.

By now everyone would have heard about the deadly shooting in Los Angeles LAX airport

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Thong Tran

Many questions raises, and yes another “gun control” related issue. This gunman has multiple magazine cartridges with him as he stormed the Los Angeles Airport. The question I have is, he has so much magazine why didn’t he keep on shooting other people around him? well apparently so far I believe that he target certain TSA officials.

I traveled for my work, and some TSA official members are jerks! no manner, no respect, they look at everyone as criminals, yes that’s right, again I say some of them not all TSA officials. So better to get this fix before more upset people will copy cat this incident. TSA official from what I see some of them being very mean! they don’t use the word please, they don’t talk politely, yeah I know they’re there to secure, but I think better training could have been enhance that. Anyhow I have not encountered any incident with the TSA folks but I can tell you that I have seen people encountered problem with the TSA, whether they get pick on to get search but it was just random or by certain things they have in their possessions.

What surprised me is that this gun man got through security check point! isn’t that something? I have been traveling for a while for work. Every time I go to check point, there are many TSA officials, some are armed, some are not, and off course there are also local POLICE officials there as well with guns. So what were these official doing letting this guy through is what I really want to know. Is it because it’s hard to get a shot or shoot the shooter with out potential injuries to others around by standers, that could be the case. Again! more training, more better armed guard with sharp shooting skill, skill that kids have playing online network shooting game could have done a better job killing the shooter.

Los Angeles airport shooting captured on security camera and social media posting from mobile phones

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Was the latest school shooting in Nevada tied to bad community bad school gang bang racist?

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Thong Tran

Just scrolled to CNN news and headline news. Another school shooting, this time in Nevada, Elementary Middle School. 2 victims injured, one dead teacher, and shooter killed himself before authority even arrived there. So what’s the caused? not known yet!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/22/justice/nevada-middle-school-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

My personal opinion on this, it doesn’t where you live, nice all white community you would have serial killers, murderers, retarded people growing a devil inside them waiting for a day to strike and kills. A bad community, with gangster and kids have nothing to do hanging around causing trouble fighting picking on people shooting selling drugs, you would be hurt or killed as by stander. Where are we safe? Not even the internet! not even at church or temple! There are risk of death everywhere. Including what you’re doing right now, even me typing this, I could be dead of random home invasion, mistaken identity killing, the room may collapse on top of me, or I could just simply have a heart attack or some kind of illness that would kill me instantly!

My point is this. Do you believe in god? do you believe that someone else is controlling your destiny, or your death? when you’re going to died? I hate to talk about it, or even think about it. Religious people when they died they don’t cry about it and sometime happy because finally their ancestor or their god calling them to live with them away from all these worries, stress, miserable life on earth.

Least expected school shooting! doesn’t matter where you live, matter is how many guns are in the wild not get locked properly.

Neva Elementary Middle School shooting captured on security camera teacher killed killer dead 2 victims serious injured Sparks Middle School