Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?...

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 24/11/2022 11:58, Max Demian wrote:

On 23/11/2022 19:07, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 17:57:33 -0000, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

We\'d be OK without power for a few weeks in our mild climate, but we
have some food and water and a propane BBQ.

Cooking is not required for survival.  Power for the freezer and
fridge is handy though.

It\'s impossible to live entirely on uncooked food. People try it, and
get rather sick after a time.

Oh I think its possible to live on it, but fire was one of man\'s
earliest technologies.

I think even the most stone age of existing peoples - Rwandan pygmies, S
American rain forest dwellers, bushman and australian aborigines all
know fire and cooking.

Raw meat and fruit is perfectly OK and probably very healthy until the
worms kick in and then you fast.

Till they die


--
Renewable energy: Expensive solutions that don\'t work to a problem that
doesn\'t exist instituted by self legalising protection rackets that
don\'t protect, masquerading as public servants who don\'t serve the public.

 

[Peeler]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:58:06 +0000, Max Dumb, the REAL dumb, notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:

It\'s impossible to live entirely on uncooked food. People try it, and
get rather sick after a time.

Keep your idiotic shit out of these ngs, you troll-feeding senile dumbass!

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:32:00 -0800 (PST), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 4:23:07 PM UTC-8, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:10:02 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
C...@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 20:58:37 -0000, Fredxx <fre...@spam.uk> wrote:

On 23/11/2022 20:40, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:25:10 -0000, Fredxx <fre...@spam.uk> wrote:

On 23/11/2022 13:30, Commander Kinsey wrote:

There must be some insulators which cannot form dipoles.

Only useful if you know what a dipole is, and an insulator.

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

Of course taking into account, there is no such thing as a perfect
insulator, and no such thing as a perfect conductor, superconductors
excepted.

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

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

Idiot. Different insulators have different dipole properties.

I don\'t think a monatomic gas is considered to be a dipole, but their
Er > 1.

That\'s Stark effect; an imposed E-field changes the electron orbitals. In theory,
you could identify a nuclear perturbation, too.

I did a summer job working with microwave spectroscopy, at the
University of New Orleans. There was a long, 30 foot maybe, waveguide
with some gas inside and a metal electrode right down the middle. We
applied kilovolt-level square waves to the sceptum and that split the
spectral absorption lines. It was enormously educational: HV square
wave generators, transmission lines, xmitting tubes, thyratrons,
Tektronix scopes, klystrons, mixers, lockin amps, liquid nitrogen,
better than a couple of years in EE school.

I personally bought a non-inductive wirewould power resistor ($3 at
Radio Parts on the former Jackson Circle) that happened to match the
txline impedance of the sceptum in the waveguide, and resolution
leaped. Dr B was shocked. I think the traveling wave of the HV steps
might have matched the prop delay of the microwaves, or at least we
killed a lot of ringing. Cool stuff for a high-school junior.

It was Dr Beeson\'s project. He was working on the atomic structure of
some organic molecule which I can\'t remember, but I do remember
getting a gigantic super-resolution Stark spectrum from OCS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonyl_sulfide

Stinky. Big dipole moment. Big dipole moments seem to be associated
with lethal gasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole#Molecular_dipoles

SF6, used to fill circuit breakers and eyeballs, is non-toxic and has
zero dipole moment.


Not being a student, UNO couldn\'t pay me. So they created a fake
student ID number, 20,000, and then they paid me 85 cents per hour.
That must have got confusing some years later when there was a real
student number 20,000. I got to use their library too and read the
entire MIT RadLab series.

I recall that there is some case where an electric or magnetic field
manages to change some nuclear property, maybe half-life. In NMR,
nuclear precession frequency is of course proportional to mag field
strength, 4 KHz/gauss for hydrogen.