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. This part of Canada is a pretty small and somewhat
widespread market. I believe that in Ontario in central Canada, a much
larger population and population density, it is, or has been, due to
political pressure following a botched attempt to privatize the electrical
system? substantially less than that at around 5 cents; even though much of
the energy is generated, by hydro power, in Labrador in this particular part
of Canada!

Thinking about it.