I was laying in bed last night and an interesting question popped into my head.
"What would happen if I could give current a lossless return path to the power station:
1. Be charged a kilowatt hour rate? I cannot imagine how given I have not dissipated any power, however perhaps the power company only measures your current throughput and assumes the power rating to be at 220VAC*Irms.
2, The only way I could return the current without dissipating it as an equivalent power, would be with a superconductive wire. This would, if it were possible, essentially 'short circuit' a phase on the generator and, if my thinking is correct, force one of the phases (I am assuming to do this on a single phase) to 0V and as such, bring that phase out of operation for the rest of the network."
O how I love laying in bed thinking of this stuff. Leave me alone mind!
"What would happen if I could give current a lossless return path to the power station:
1. Be charged a kilowatt hour rate? I cannot imagine how given I have not dissipated any power, however perhaps the power company only measures your current throughput and assumes the power rating to be at 220VAC*Irms.
2, The only way I could return the current without dissipating it as an equivalent power, would be with a superconductive wire. This would, if it were possible, essentially 'short circuit' a phase on the generator and, if my thinking is correct, force one of the phases (I am assuming to do this on a single phase) to 0V and as such, bring that phase out of operation for the rest of the network."
O how I love laying in bed thinking of this stuff. Leave me alone mind!
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