I am a BIG anti establishmentist and as such I would love to steal ANY
utility I can. Personally, you can trust me with your life, but if you
got an "inc." you better keep your eyes open.

I remember a Father/son project (not me). They ran an electric whole
house furnace on high through a rectifier to try to magnetize the
poles inside the mechanical meter. Those things are on the way out. We
also discussed that guy who layed long lines on his own property
parallel to the over head high tension wires. The government's
contention was that the power he used showed up on a meter somewhere,
but if you know transformer theory you know that is not true.

For example power flows through a wire more efficiently in conduit
because it quenches part of the magnetic field generated. Of course
this is miniscule, but still true. Well that wire on the ground was
actuing as the secondary of a transformer, as such when current was
pulled from that wire, it increased the efficiency of the power
company's transmission wire. The point of law was not that someone
else was paying for it, the problem was that he wasn't. Plain and
simple. You know in some states it is now illegal to collect rainwater
on your own property here in the land of the fee and the home of the
slave. It is certainly illegal to collect electromagnetic energy. I
think the people who made it that way should be boiled in oil for
higher treason, but that is beyond the scope of this thread of course.

Anyway, many years ago one power company came out with peak load
meters. It had the wheel and the dials, but it also had an ammeter.
The ammeter had a peak recorder, mechanical of course. It had two
needles that indicated usage. One went up and down, the other went up
and did not come down. When the meter reader came he had a key that
would reset the one needle. He recorded that peak reading and the
higher the needle was stuck on the scale, the more you paid per unit,
ALL MONTH.

Mechanical meters are on their way out. They just changed them on my
house. Now I am sure that I could flip one upside down, but being
digital I am almost positive that it can detect that. Whether it has a
way to report that I do not know. But the event would certainly be
recorded in the meter. Maybe there will be a rash of "meter thefts".
If an engineer designed a KWH meter without this capability they would
certainly be fired. If I were the power company I would fire them.

Really though, on an old mechanical meter, remember that you can sell
power back, at least in theory. In fact some people do, although there
is a push now for the government to say it literally owns the sunshine
that falls on your property here. If you do sell it back, the meter I
think has to run backward, but there is still power on their side. In
case of a power outage, if you sell back ALOT of power and they come
and don't see any solar or wind devices, they are going to want to
know where that power came from. What do you say, even if you did get
away with flipping the meter ? Generally, the best you can do is
generate enough, more thasn enough for yourself and have NO usage
whatsoever. In fact at Pearl and Fulton you can rent a business
storefront with free electricity, because it is in fron of a boneyard
that has a windmill. I bet though, that if I wanted to start a foundry
and machine shop there, the rent would be a bit higher.

They got you coming and going.

Soon, in this country they are going to require a license just to
recieve money. Mark my words. And do not start that tinfoil ****, I
can back all this up.

J