I met a guy who is involved in selling a device that you attach to
your electrical system that "captures" the power that you don't use
(I guess it's the "extra" power that flows through your electrical
devices and goes back to the power company.) He says "it's a
circuit, you know." Then it gi
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Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:28 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Electricity scam?
I met a guy who is involved in selling a device that you attach to
your electrical system that "captures" the power that you don't use
(
I would say it is total BS.
Thane Sherrington wrote:
> I met a guy who is involved in selling a device that you attach to
> your electrical system that "captures" the power that you don't use
> (I guess it's the "extra" power that flows through your electrical
> devices and goes back to
At 09:28 AM 12/24/2009, you wrote:
I met a guy who is involved in selling a device that you attach to your
electrical system that "captures" the power that you don't use (I guess
it's the "extra" power that flows through your electrical devices and goes
back to the power company.) He says "it'
WOW!!! Just what I've been looking for!! Afterburners for electrical
outlets...
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Electricity scam?
At 09:28 AM 12/24/2009, you wrote:
>I met a guy who is involved in selling a device that you attach
This didn't run, syntax error, you forgot the /sarcasm tag..;-)
Steve
Jeff Lane wrote:
WOW!!! Just what I've been looking for!! Afterburners for electrical
outlets...
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Electricity scam?
At 09:2
un, syntax error, you forgot the /sarcasm tag..;-)
Steve
Jeff Lane wrote:
WOW!!! Just what I've been looking for!! Afterburners for
electrical outlets...
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [H] Electricity scam?
At 09:28 AM 12/24/2009, you
Fuel for the fire...
http://www.power-save.com/1200.html
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Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
"...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
Power factor correction is very real...in fact, I was under the assumption that
power companies already do this based on expected home usage. When they don't
do this, they will end up moving more energy over the grid...costly for them
since there are losses there.
Joe User wrote:
> Fuel
Power factor (ie, power drawn by non-resistive loads) is of course very real
- but I don't know of any situation where the power company is calculating
your power usage on anything but watts. So for a home user it matters not,
while for the power company it matters quite a bit and is a a very good
Here another page, where about a third of the way down, there's a lis of
links of review and tests of these types of devices. The video of the
TV station test is unfortunately a dead link.
http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/06/16/useless-power-savers-the-saga-continues/
Brian Weeden wrote:
The lowest Power Factor usually comes from motor (Aircon, Refrig),
transformer (neon lamp, radio, TV, PC)
But todays equipments are designed with Green in mind. Yes they are
not perfect with 1.0 power factor, but at least 0.8 or more.
So if we are still running a lot of old equipments, then
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