Re: Why do I get electricity bills? (another thought-provoking metaphysical conundrum)

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:15:39 GMT

Terry wrote:
> Was anybody keeping count of the number of postings to this thread
> BEFORE it became personal and acrimonious?
> Seems like some posters lack the necessary sense of humour? They seem
> to hate anythingthey say be challenged?
> Then, as a reaction they descend in childish name calling and
> attempts at derision. Shame!
>
> Sticking to the subject. "Why electricity (for our antique radios of
> course) is/is not free". Well, hmm! The tube heaters use full wave,
> but what about those pulses of one way rectified half wave AC for the
> B+? (Primarily in non transformer radios!). Intended pun; non power
> transformer radios don't have a primary! :-)
>
> Personally I'd like to 'rectify'? my high electricity cost!
> Our consumption is recorded by a 60 cycle analog AC meter on the
> outside of my house, which is owned by the power company and read and
> billed monthly. Maybe I could get those positive half cycles and then
> not 'return' the negative ones, as someone has already suggested, and
> reduce electricity consumption that way? Joking of course :-) What
> good would half cycles be to respectable AC operated equipment?
>
> So anybody got any other 'practical' ideas, in addition to burning my
> non electric wood stove during the winter, to reducing my electrical
> heating cost?
>
> Our domestic electricity presently costs about 9 cents Canadian per
> kilowatt hour. That's roughly 7 cents US and roughly 4 UK New Pence,
> per unit/kilowatt hour.

Which means running ones 1MW anti-gravity machine only costs a trivial
$70 per hour. Cheap at twice the price.

Kevin Aylward
salesEXTRACT@anasoft.co.uk
http://www.anasoft.co.uk
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