09-26-2026, 03:09 PM
The rule is simple: as long as you have ANY active load, you CANNOT save any energy. It will be dissipated as heat. Period.
Now what I heard CAN be done is, there is some way to use an inductance / transformer to plug into an outlet, induce a counter-phase current and make the meter rotate backwards. This only worked with old style electro-mechanical (2-windings) meter.
Today with new ones it should not work.
I guess the new bi-directional meters (for registering power back to the grid from, say, solar panels) register power and not the backwards current (negative power).
Now what I heard CAN be done is, there is some way to use an inductance / transformer to plug into an outlet, induce a counter-phase current and make the meter rotate backwards. This only worked with old style electro-mechanical (2-windings) meter.
Today with new ones it should not work.
I guess the new bi-directional meters (for registering power back to the grid from, say, solar panels) register power and not the backwards current (negative power).
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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