On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:02:29 +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

In article ,
John Rumm writes:

And don't forget that if lots of people did it, they would find a way of
taxing it! ;-)

If even a few people start doing it, the local substation transformers
will all burn out, never mind the supply network.

Only if we all started at once. What will really happen is it will take decades for everyone to take them up, and the substations will be gradually upgraded. And since the electric companies are making a lot more money, they can spend that on the transformers.

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