On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:15:39 +0000, Kevin Aylward wrote:

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.

I don't know where you buy your antigravity machines, but that's way out
of line. Whadday lifting, the Great Pyramids?

;-)
Rich