[BC] 3 phase to single phase conversion - a sneaky, perhaps unethical solution

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 05:34 pm, Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>  I suppose  eventually the power company will ask where all the electrical 
>  load is that you wanted to feed. You could buy some kind of big electrical load
>  , 
>  and fire the sucker up once in a while to keep them off your back. 
>  
>  I realize that this would be an incredibly dirty trick to pull, but if you 
>  drew the "high" load you specified once in a while, I don't see what they could
>   
>  do about it. 
>  
>  "Well, I did not say I was going to draw 2.5 megawatts ALL the time, and you 
>  didn't ask."

 Reminds me of the wind tunnel at NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland.
 ( Lewis has since been down-graded to John Glen )

 They literally phone the power company before cranking up the wind tunnel
 as extra generators are needed to provide the power.
 Hey, generating super-sonic wind takes power ! LOTS of power.

-- 
Cowboy