Arthur Toal aimed to make a point, and it all centered on roughly 20 grains of rice.
At a meeting Tuesday evening between his Atlanta neighborhood and Georgia Power, he lifted a small vial of rice to represent his home’s electric capacity. Then he reached for progressively larger jars of rice portraying to symbolize larger power users — the entire capacity of his Howell Station neighborhood, the nearby Fulton County Jail, the world’s busiest airport and so on.
“I don’t have any more comparisons,” he said while covering a table with rice-filled jars. “And that is QTS.”…