On Sunday, 6 November 2022 at 19:28:21 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Nov 2022 18:20:18 -0000, Cursitor Doom <c...@notformail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 17:13:16 +0000, SteveW <st...@walker-family.me.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/11/2022 15:10, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:43:37 -0000, <Wand...@noplace.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Sure, but we would need to replace all electrical devices by the their
> >>>> Thevenin Equivalent.
> >>>>
> >>>> Seriously, All electrical device need to use a certain amount of
> >>>> power. We often convert the mains voltages and currents to other
> >>>> voltages and currents that devices can consume. There are probably
> >>>> some power supplies that could use the lower voltages and frequencies
> >>>> and get the same power. Some motors and clocks may run slower but some
> >>>> would not work at all. If we still had incandescent light bulbs they
> >>>> would be dimmer, the reason for the old term 'brown out'. Most modern
> >>>> devices would not work and might even be damaged.
> >>>>
> >>>> So No.
> >>>
> >>> A device getting damaged by not enough power is screaming of bad design.
> >>
> >> Not necessarily. We have a "guaranteed" minimum and maximum supply
> >> voltage. Why should a company spend extra designing and installing
> >> protection against supplies (not temporary aberrations) outside them?
> >
> > Yes, all sorts of issues if a power company messes around with the
> > voltage and frequency. If a consumer wants to attempt saving money in
> > this way then the obvious thing to try would be a variac. It won't
> > change the frequency but does enable one to reduce the supply voltage
> > easily to whatever device you wish to reduce the power to.
> Not the same thing at all. If you want to reduce usage, you turn things down or off. If the whole country wants to do that over a short period due to high demand, they can't very well phone everyone up and tell you to delay your coffee for half an hour, they have to lower the voltage.

Mass texting has been done with covid messages, it could be tried.

On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 00:05:10 UTC, Peeler wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 15:38:35 -0800 (PST), Animal, another mentally
> handicapped, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:
> > Mass texting has been done with covid messages, it could be tried.
> Are you STILL "discussing" with the trolling wanker, you brain dead
> troll-feeding senile asshole? I wonder how long it will take YOU exceptional
> idiot to catch on! LOL

I rarely read your pointless responses, but I saw this one. Why don't you do yourself the biggest favour and go find something useful to do.

On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 22:44:32 UTC, Peeler wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 14:18:45 -0800 (PST), Animal, another mentally
> handicapped, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:
> >> Are you STILL "discussing" with the trolling wanker, you brain dead
> >> troll-feeding senile asshole? I wonder how long it will take YOU exceptional
> >> idiot to catch on! LOL
> >
> > I rarely read your pointless responses, but I saw this one. Why don't you
> > do yourself the biggest favour and go find something useful to do.
> A troll-feeding senile asshole is in no position to decide what is useful! ;-)

You spend your life posting reams of junk that no-one reads 99.9% of the time. What a total waste.

On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 23:28:19 UTC, Peeler wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 15:25:00 -0800 (PST), Animal, another mentally
> handicapped, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:
> >> A troll-feeding senile asshole is in no position to decide what is useful! ;-)
> >
> > You spend your life posting reams of junk that no-one reads 99.9% of the
> > time. What a total waste.
> This coming from the troll-feeding senile asshole who produces nothing but
> waste together with the troll he keeps feeding! Fucking hilarious! LOL

The oddest thing about human nature is people making no attempt to solve their problems.

On Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:27:58 +1100, Animal <tabbypurr@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 23:28:19 UTC, Peeler wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 15:25:00 -0800 (PST), Animal, another mentally
>> handicapped, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:
>> >> A troll-feeding senile asshole is in no position to decide what is
>> useful! ;-)
>> >
>> > You spend your life posting reams of junk that no-one reads 99.9% of
>> the
>> > time. What a total waste.
>> This coming from the troll-feeding senile asshole who produces nothing
>> but
>> waste together with the troll he keeps feeding! Fucking hilarious! LOL
>
> The oddest thing about human nature is people making no attempt to solve
> their problems.

In the case of that pathetic wretch, he has solved the problem of
how to fill in its time.