Thursday, January 27, 2022

I'm meeting more and more people who work from home online and on the phone

 I think this is maybe a permanent change for companies around the world. This will make online capacity and needing electricity for online capacity.

I think this will also create people to be more Solar conscious regarding making sure their homes have solar cells on the roof where there is enough sunlight for this to be practical to do.

Is this good or bad?

I think on many levels you have to see this as both good and bad at the same time.

It's nice when you are making important decisions that you are in the same room and looking at body behavior and other aspects of joking together and being a part of a group. When you are removed by physically not being together even if you have holograms for everyone it just isn't the same.

On the other hand if it keeps people well and functional so that companies don't have 1/3 of their workers sick at any given time this is definitely a plus for helping companies stay in business and make better decisions.

I think young people might be on the forefront of all this. For example, a neighbor in her 20s called and asked us if we knew how to open her garage in a power outage because the power had gone out where she was.

I told her that as long as she had a regular walk through door into her garage from her home I likely could help her get her car out of the garage because she felt trapped and unable to do her online job because of an emergency power outage locally. So, I told her about how to release the garage door from inside where you have electric garage door openers. This worked and she was very grateful to get somewhere she could still work online with her car.

If you don't know about this if you have an electric Garage door opener (electric motor) there is usually a manual release that is usually a red or black rope hanging down with a red plastic end on it hanging from your garage door opener. Pull this down and it will release the garage door from the electric motor mechanism so you can manually open the garage door. (At least this is true by law in California). I'm not sure what is true in other states.

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