Setting ones thermostat to 78 degrees between 4pm and 9pm in California

 Though for many people 78 degrees is still pretty warm it is a small sacrifice to help keep other Californians alive. We all know that heat this high is killing some people, especially the elderly and those without air conditioners. So, by setting our thermostats (people who have air conditioners to 78 degrees) from 4 to 9 pm this helps a lot.

How does this work?

Well. In California many many people (because of the sun) have solar power. But, this solar power only works when the sun is out which is most effective between about sunrise and about 4 pm in the afternoon because anyone next to a hillside or other taller structures won't receive sunlight onto their solar arrays much after 4 pm. 

So, this is why everyone needs to set their thermostats to 78 degrees from 4 pm to 9pm at night so the Grid doesn't go down and many older or infirm people die all over the state from power failure which soon results in their deaths from the heat.

When I was growing up in the 1950s people died all the time from the heat but then again people were dying at random just from basic ignorance a lot more than now too. So, death was just something that took people a lot in the 1950s (from ignorance) from before birth to any age a lot more than now.

People tend to value their lives more than they did in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s or 1960s. This trend of trying to stay alive longer didn't really begin in earnest until the mid 1970s and 1980s. As people became more educated in various ways because of the Viet Nam War they didn't die as much from ignorance as they did before.

For example, in the 1950s doctors would go on TV and tell people that cigarettes wouldn't kill them. This is just one instance of how crazy the 1950s and before actually were in real life.

NOTE: in other words most people with solar power are generators for the grid. For example, my cousin says he pays about 13 dollars a month to keep his solar cells  service connected to the grid but no more than that. He also charges one electric vehicle and one plug in hybrid with his solar system as well. So, people with solar power are now a part of the grid but this only works during sunny days between sunup and about 4 to 5 pm depending upon their locations.

So, all of a sudden the grid loses likely millions of solar cells around 4 to 5 pm each day and then likely natural gas has to make up the difference in their steam turbines to make enough electricity to run the grid between 4pm and 9 pm every day during this heat wave.