Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

Clocks are for the government to keep everyone doing things correctly and on time. I find it easier to do things when you want to. Sometimes I'll go to bed in the afternoon and get up in the middle of the night.

I put two CPU fans in my fridge freezer (fridge section). It was somehow creating 13C at the top and 1C at the bottom. It works by air blowing from the freezer section, I can't see how it could be doing that badly, or how the laws of physics permit such a huge temperature differential.

That's supposed to happen. That's where the cold comes from, it has to be less than the food to be able to cool the food.

If the thermostat was keeping it on too long, that's exactly what would happen.

That would result in nowhere near enough cooling.

Why are you lot living in the last century? My dad (they have a small log fire which won't take large logs from some suppliers) bought one of these:

It doesn't matter if you see it in realtime or not.

Here, the price per hour can be different, and one day to the next too. That needs a smart meter that can meter that.

If you hate the idea, it is irrelevant.

If you somehow have an electromechanical meter, they will charge you the highest price per hour of the month. No problem.

Yes :-D

I did not choose.

It derives from simply having little water in the country.

Think that way, and you will not care about paying double the normal bill in water.

This one doesn't:

The LCD becomes too faint.

The UK offers unmetered service for circa UKP30-40/month. That's rare in most other parts of the world which as you note have limited supplies of fresh potable water.

Most of the American west is in serious or extreme drought conditions.

Water Factoids:

We have plenty of water from the Great Lakes. My water is metered anyway. We pay for what we use; we're not communists. Manufacture of potable water costs money to treat the incoming water and outgoing sewage. Like any other manufacturing cost, it's passed along to the consumer.

"Flint"

They had plenty of water. They also had other problems.

Lead pipes. Even the pre-CE Greeks and Romans knew that lead is poisonous.

It's called "cogeneration"

IIRC, there was also a problem at the treatment plant, that made the lead pipe problem worse.

I thought there was a problem with capacitance sending AC a long distance, hence DC to the UK? Yet they're managing AC throughout most of Europe?

That's just dust from the bombs, you'll get a good view tomorrow.