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From: Miguel Cruz on 3 Aug 2006 13:31 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Tchiowa writes: >> Simply not true. More than one provider can use the same wires. > > How does each provider keep its power separate from the others? They don't. It doesn't matter. All electricity tastes the same. The distribution agency that manages the wires going into people's homes also manages the meters, and they know that 100 Main St has signed up for Hatfield Electric and 209 Pleasant Lane has signed up for McCoy Electric. So when 100 Main St uses 5000kw/h, and 209 Pleasant Lane uses 1000kw/h, the distribution agency makes sure that Hatfield Electric has injected 5000kw/h into the grid and McCoy Electric has injected 1000kw/h. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu
From: Miguel Cruz on 3 Aug 2006 13:35 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Miguel Cruz writes: >> If you switch suppliers from A to B, there is no "change in wiring". >> Supplier B simply pumps a little more electricity into the grid, and >> supplier A a little less. > > If you have supplier A, what prevents you from using electricity from > supplier B? Each electron is individually numbered at the plant. There are spot-checks in which trucks will drive by consumers' houses and sample the electric light that leaks out through their windows. The enforcement officers check the serial numbers on the electrons, and if any of them turn out not to be from the company the consumer had subscribed to, he is clapped in irons and made to listen to your tour guide spiel. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu
From: Mxsmanic on 3 Aug 2006 16:57 The Reid writes: > try getting a job where professional qualifications you don't > have are required and see if they can tell the difference between > you and a professional. Artificial barriers to employment are not representative. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 3 Aug 2006 16:58 Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > So you are a professional of unspecified kind ? It's not something that I spend a lot of time worrying about. > Rare species, if you ask me. I have not asked you. > You're certainly not a professional at word games, though - > you've again lost one. Even if that were true, is Zidane not a professional soccer player because he lost a World Cup? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 3 Aug 2006 16:59
Martin writes: > One of them is how to earn a reasonable salary. Not anymore. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |