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The electric grid loses a lot of power through inefficiencies anyway. If anyone did try this, I've no doubt the electric companies would be (rightly) very pisse
by weavejester 15y ago
The electric grid loses a lot of power through inefficiencies anyway. If anyone did try this, I've no doubt the electric companies would be (rightly) very pissed off, but more about the potential risk to their power lines than the actual power lost.
- chronomex 15y agohttp://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=9291 http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=9291
- weavejester 15y agoLighting a barn requires a heck of lot more power than sending out a wifi signal, even a fairly strong one.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI lose money through inefficiency because sometimes I drop coins on the ground and don't bother going after them, but if you start reaching into my pockets for my pennies, you and I are gonna have words, followed by fists. It's not that they/I worry about watts/pennies, or even that they/I worry that you'll damage the powerlines/pockets, but that it's outright theft.
- weavejester 15y agoHuman beings have the luxury of being irrational about their finances, whilst publicly traded corporations are supposed to be able to justify their financial decisions. If a CEO says, "I hate stealing, so I'm going to spend 10 million dollars year of the company's money to stop 10 thousand dollars in power theft." then I don't think that's going to impress the company's shareholders.