Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

Nov 06, 2022 Last reply: 3 years ago 811 Replies
C

It seems the French are no good at such calculations. My Renault's fuel guage is very non linear. The second half of the tank is used twice as fast as the first half according to the guage. As for the digital "miles left before running out" reading, it seems to think I can get about 90mpg from a petrol engine. But luckily the average speed since you last pressed the button guage is very very accurate, so I use it for cheating the average speed cameras. People just don't get why I can go 100 in a 60.

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J

Everything goes through a computer now. Gas gages are probably programmed to be alarmist.

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R

Ours don't and that would be too much farting around imo.

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C

Mine is the wrong way round, both the guage and the predicted miles left. Both are telling me I can go further than I can, risking me running out of fuel.

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C

? Looking at yesterday as a quick example on gridwatch wind is nowhere near 40%.

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C

True enough, I've often seen it only 30%. But if it's lower, another country will be higher. Lots of big wires between us, the whole world could run off wind.

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C

I'm quite sure the engineers making the inter-country connections do.

It doesn't have to a be a perfect insulator, just one that's rubbish at being a dipole.

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C

It must be possible to make a vacuum in a big tube across the English Channel. Actually.... why don't they run the cable in the Chunnel?

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F

I think we have discovered the problem in your understanding. An insulator rubbish at being a dipole, would normally be called a conductor.

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C

Idiot. Different insulators have different dipole properties.

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C

If you can't notice a leak the size of your water consumption, you need your eyes tested.

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C

For f*ck's sake just call it AD and BC like everyone else.

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C

I pay £20 a month in the UK including sewage. The metered service would cost more than that even if I use zero water!

Then people shouldn't be living there.

My heart bleeds.

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C

If something is plentiful, there's no need to meter it.

It's so little it's cheaper not to meter it. As I said in another post, in the UK it would cost me more if I elected to have a meter.

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C

What is the (modern?) obsession wit the word "that"? Your sentence means precisely the same as "Even the pre-CE Greeks and Romans knew lead is poisonous."

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C

Why do you need so many names for each party? I'm fed up of googling each one.

And safety is for girls.

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C

What is it with your blame society?

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C

The problem is the lead, not the pH.

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S

That's a good point. Locos are parked up with their pantographs lowered. Surely it doesn't need an engineer visit to power them back up?

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