It is not often San Francisco locals ever do touristy stuff like the cruise to Alcatraz. We did make the trip with some guests from out of the country this weekend and were lucky enough to get a day where sun and lack of wind on the bay made it quite a wonderful experience.
View From A Remarkable Day On Alcatraz -Jonathan
There have been some recent debates on people in San Francisco wanting to put wind turbines on their property. In Miraloma Park, it can be really windy, so it makes sense. But, after seeing the mess that is the wind turbine at the house in Forest Hill Extension (that really doesn’t do much of anything BTW) I truly hope people will want to put ones in that actually look decent for the neighborhood as well as work.
I always liked the ones from Helix Wind. I could see people putting these up. They are vertical axis wind turbines and they look like art as opposed to a prop or something.
An article from the WSJ Bay Area Edition back in January 2010 covered Michael Deneui and his horrible Skystream 3.7 machine. I am not sure what the folks on the 400 block of Teresita want to do, but if it is another Skystream, then let’s no go there. Also, Helix Wind is out of California while Skystream is out of Arizona (yes, that Arizona.)
Came home today and saw a new box with a solar panel high-up on a street light pole. I took some pictures and did a little research and found out what it was. It looked as though it had to do with the PG&E push for Smartmeters in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. It seems to be a data collection and rely unit for smartmeter systems.
But, in reality, it is for the water meters. Others have emailed me on this and confirmed it is for the SF Water District meters.PG&E can’t put them on the city-owned poles, but the water district can.
Got some pictures of the unit and the FCC ID is LLB9975 (FCC ID Search http://mer.gy/fccIDsearch ) which resolves to company named Hexagram that resolves to a company named Aclara http://www.aclaratech.com/ and specifically their line of smartmeter relay units http://mer.gy/smartmeters
It was a very nice ceremony. Pictures below. We love Mount Davidson and are very happy it is protected.
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Really nice to read the June edition of my neighborhood newsletter from the Miraloma Park Improvement Club, Miraloma Life, and Mary Catherine Wiederhold’s article on the recent planting we did with Friends of the Urban Forest in the Miraloma Park area of San Francisco. I scanned it for viewing. You can click on the images to the left to read.
Please check out the MPIC website for more information about the Miraloma Park Improvement Club and other stuff that is going on in the area.
