On 12 Nov 2004 16:34:12 GMT, (Troglodite) wrote:

The way it was explained to me, the electric company sends you the stuff on one
wire, but it goes right back to them on the other wire. You should only be
paying a small rental fee, as you don't get to keep any of it, and they keep
re-selling the same electricity back to you and everyone else.

Doug Moore KB9TMY

Thanks, Doug. I'm glad *someone* here has some sense!
And another thing: many of us here in Britland use earthed neutrals,
so the power co. gets it's current back via earth alone. I don't mind
my own current being returned via my own garden, but why the hell
should everybody else's' current pass through my land en route back to
the power station? If the telephone company wanted to run a line over
my property, they'd have to pay me for the privilege (it's called a
"wayleave") but the power co. are paying me *nothing* for all the
other customers' earth returns running via my garden. What a rip off!

--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

Paul Burridge wrote:

On 12 Nov 2004 16:34:12 GMT, (Troglodite) wrote:



The way it was explained to me, the electric company sends you the stuff on one
wire, but it goes right back to them on the other wire. You should only be
paying a small rental fee, as you don't get to keep any of it, and they keep
re-selling the same electricity back to you and everyone else.

Doug Moore KB9TMY



Thanks, Doug. I'm glad *someone* here has some sense!
And another thing: many of us here in Britland use earthed neutrals,
so the power co. gets it's current back via earth alone. I don't mind
my own current being returned via my own garden, but why the hell
should everybody else's' current pass through my land en route back to
the power station? If the telephone company wanted to run a line over
my property, they'd have to pay me for the privilege (it's called a
"wayleave") but the power co. are paying me *nothing* for all the
other customers' earth returns running via my garden. What a rip off!



Paul; You could drive ground rods into opposite corners of your property
and extract some of the power from the earth and run your house for
nothing at all! In fact If you dig a deep enough trench in the middle,
you could isolate the ground and get a bigger return current!

--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"

The Lost Deep Thoughts By: Jack Handey
Before a mad scientist goes mad, there's probably a time
when he's only partially mad. And this is the time when he's
going to throw his best parties.

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:37:28 -0500, **THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**
wrote:

Paul; You could drive ground rods into opposite corners of your property
and extract some of the power from the earth and run your house for
nothing at all! In fact If you dig a deep enough trench in the middle,
you could isolate the ground and get a bigger return current!

Well, I don't see how that could work, but I had considered digging a
trench around my boundary and thereby cutting off the return path for
the other users' behind my house and demanding payment from the power
co. to re-instate it. But then it's obvious the return current's only
going to go deeper underground or around my property. It seems there's
nothing I can do to make any dough out of this. :-(
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

Paul Burridge wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:37:28 -0500, **THE-RFI-EMI-GUY**
wrote:

Paul; You could drive ground rods into opposite corners of your property
and extract some of the power from the earth and run your house for
nothing at all! In fact If you dig a deep enough trench in the middle,
you could isolate the ground and get a bigger return current!

Well, I don't see how that could work, but I had considered digging a
trench around my boundary and thereby cutting off the return path for
the other users' behind my house and demanding payment from the power
co. to re-instate it. But then it's obvious the return current's only
going to go deeper underground or around my property. It seems there's
nothing I can do to make any dough out of this. :-(

Not sure, but somehwere it has to be stated that electric company MUST
provide an escape route for electrons they supllied to customers,
otherwise they will blow up your house in an eyeblink (assume you try
to steal their electrons). That's the only reason for the bill.