Electricity is blah

[SirCanealot]

A screw up (pretty weird, long story) with our utility bill accounts means we haven't had one in about 6 months (or more, I'm not sure). Our bill finally came in and the electricity was a whopping £800!

But it got me thinking. I realised there was an air conditioner that's been plugged in for maybe over a year that can be turned on via remote (so it's using power when it's plugged into the wall), there's an audio amp in my room that is the same. I mean, if these devices are using 10 watts in standby, that's 240 watt/hours a day 7.2 killowatt hours a month. So a device that uses 10 watts in standby is costing us around £1 a month just to sit there! We've got a load of modems/routers in the living room sitting on 24/7 when they could have had timed plugs to at least turn them off a few hours a day. So how much of that £800 is all those devices sitting on standby or staying on 24/7? Who knows...

Researching online a little, the best thing to do is to keep on top of it, but why do I feel like I should have been regulating my electricity before cleaning my floor?

I hate electricity. Why is it so easy to waste? It's so easy to cut your bills too, but it kind of feels like I've left myself with cancer for ages before getting it treated and not I'm paying the price.

I'm moving back to my parents soon (lack of money :P), but god damn am I going to make sure I have multi plugs with switches on, and timed plugs for devices that kind of need to stay on most of the day so at least my carbon footprint/impact on their bill will be as small as possible.

Anyway, rant over! I look forward to the day when solar/wind power is more efficient... -_-;;

[Stanley Design]

Tesla invented a device that costs ~1500 dollars to build, is about the size of/can be contained in a 8'x10' shed in your back yard, and provides more than enough FREE electricity to supply a home or two just from collecting the energy through the air. Unfortunately they are illegal, and anyone that has them will deny them completely. I'm not too sure on the details, but I've been told about it and if it IS true then that would be pretty cool.

[Otso]

Originally Posted by Stanley Design

Tesla invented a device that costs ~1500 dollars to build, is about the size of/can be contained in a 8'x10' shed in your back yard, and provides more than enough FREE electricity to supply a home or two just from collecting the energy through the air. Unfortunately they are illegal, and anyone that has them will deny them completely. I'm not too sure on the details, but I've been told about it and if it IS true then that would be pretty cool.

[tinfoil hat]Also the electric car he had, that had some rods pointing up instead of having a battery. The oil companies are making sure that the technology will never be made public. [/tinfoil hat]

[T-Bird]

Hi.

SirCanealot, You can rest easy if you're not living in some warm sunny dry place in the UK .

The fault in the wasting elecricity logic lies in the boundary of the system. When You have a space/system, in this case the living quarters, it takes a certain amount of power to heat that space and to keep it dry enough for living. That same amount of power is being used wheter it is used in the radiator, floor heating, IR heating, fireplace, anything. If You're "wasting" energy within the system, the same energy ( minus the convection and radiating losses) would be used anyway.

As for Tesla, Marconi, Edison etc. free energy "inventions", most of them are either inpractical, hazardous, or not invented by themat all, but rather by Hamel or other similar people who ride on the mystery of the teachings of Tesla and Marconi.

Regards
Sam

[Philbiker]

Originally Posted by Stanley Design

Tesla invented a device that costs ~1500 dollars to build, is about the size of/can be contained in a 8'x10' shed in your back yard, and provides more than enough FREE electricity to supply a home or two just from collecting the energy through the air. Unfortunately they are illegal, and anyone that has them will deny them completely. I'm not too sure on the details, but I've been told about it and if it IS true then that would be pretty cool.

If you really believe that nonsense I've got a bridge to sell you.

[ehque]

Originally Posted by Philbiker

If you really believe that nonsense I've got a bridge to sell you.

And Tesla would be able to sell you a suitcase sized device that would create an earthquake powerful enough to level that bridge. Go look for it. Mythbusters tested it too.

[santucci218]

Originally Posted by Otso

[tinfoil hat]Also the electric car he had, that had some rods pointing up instead of having a battery. The oil companies are making sure that the technology will never be made public. [/tinfoil hat]

"And the UFO's! GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!"

[MatticusMania]

Did someone say consipracy?