Re: Energy Conservation and Coils?

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

Hi Erik,
          Interesting situation indeed!

On 8 Apr 01, at 15:34, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "ebyng by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <ebyng-at-netlimit-dot-com>
> 
> Hello again.
> 
> I had an interesting conversation yesterday, on the topic of how my
> Coil's reflected on the energy situation in Washington/California.
> 
> The response I got goes something like this:
> 
> "Don't you think that thats just a little irrisponsible?  I understand
> the drive behind doing things like this, but could you hold off untill
> we at least sort out the energy problems?  Were all low on water, were
> sending all our electricity to California, and you and your coils are
> just sucking it all up.  Were all trying to conserve here, why arnt
> you doing your part?"
> 
> 
> Well, I must admit that that came after I suggested that maybe if they
> conserved more, it would come out even...
> 
> So, really, how does this affect conservation, and what's the best
> that can be done?
> 
> Thanks
> Erik, Energy Communist
> :-)
 
Not living in America probably makes me unqualified to comment but 
FWIW, I'd say that considering the tiny fraction of the population 
that are coilers and the amount of time coils are run for (duty 
cycle), you'd probably find all combined being completely outdone by 
the odd lamp being left on in hundreds of buildings. And what about 
leakage currents on the national grid and domestic consumers leaving 
their uWave ovens, stoves, VCRs and TVs etc. plugged in. A recent 
calculation done in Britain showed that the clocks in these items 
collectively consumed somewhere around 3.5MW continuously. I wonder 
what the power consumption for these items is like throughout your 
State, America etc. Draw your own conclusions.

Regards,
malcolm