On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:09:35 +0000, Paul Burridge
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:48:00 GMT, (Don
Pearce) wrote:

Aww c'mon - if you multiply a positive voltage by a positive current
you get positive power. If you multiply negative voltage by negative
current you get positive power.

Sorry, Don, you obviously haven't thought this through. Since *all*
their current is returned, I cannot have used *any* of it. Whatever
the voltage might be, multiplying it by zero Amps still gives zero
power!

Paul, perhaps you should be a politician...

What you are charged for is the use of the current as it flows through
your appliances etc. Because the current flows in your appliances it
places a load on their generating plant. Because millions of houses
are also doing the same thing at the same time the load on the
generating plant is enormous and in order to supply the large amount
of current required by all users (yes, even though they do get it back
in the return feed), the generating plant has to be enormous itself.
Now, power stations aren't something you pick off a tree, they have to
be built and maintained and they consume "energy" in order to be able
to generate the large amount of current which flows.

Now even a dill can see that the cost of building and running the
plant has to be paid for and the cost of doing this is usually
amortised over a period of 15 or 20 years and after that it is pure
profit. So you are paying for the current which flows through your
systems to generate heat, cool and cook your food, run your stereo
etc, etc. Now despite your fallacious arguments about supply voltage
summing to zero and the supply authority getting all their current
back after having gone through your house, you can't argue that you
shouldn't be charged purely for no other reason than the law stating
the conservation of energy.

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but may only be changed
from one form to another."

The supply authority is changing one form of energy to another in
order to generate electrical energy and you are changing the energy
they supply into other forms required to generate heat, cooling etc in
your household. I can tell you this, converting energy from one form
to another doesn't come free and not even a politician would be stupid
enough to believe that it does.



Anyway - are you cleaning and refurbishing those amps before you give
them back?

Why should I? That's *their* job. I pay enough!

They wear out, you know.

You mean they like lose their charge after a while? That would make
sense as I've found as years have gone by, I've had to turn the
heating up more and more. The thieving *******s!