The authors of the WSJ piece define âslipstreamâ fiction as being âthe new weirdâ because it âborrowsâ from science fiction, fantasy or horror, to âsurpriseâ readers who arenât expecting such things in their allegedly normal fiction.
Multiply the kilowatt-hours used per day times the electricity rate charged by the power company. If you use 10 kilowatt-hours daily and the highest-tier rate you pay is 20 cents, the air conditioner costs $2.00 per day, or about $60 per month.
Electricity in the US cost about ten cents per kilowatt-hour. The average family uses about 10,000 kilowatt-hours per year. So that's about $1,000 per year. This is one of the reasons why alternative energy is so difficult to implement--your electricity is really a bargain.