Power savers again

Correct. Over compensating, so to say and just shifting the phase the other way. Maybe the active controls are doing much more, like handling a bank of capacitors to optimise PF? After all, industrial PF optimisation devices have been on the market for a very long time. This can be a tricky issue if you create a tuned circuit, with inductors that could run load less at times. The currents in a tuned circuit are in theory only limited by losses and to work out what happens if iron cores get driven into saturation is another kettle of fish.

Tony

Tony

I was close, it was a lucky guess. Take a look at "today's poll" at the

"Can the government on Sunday persuade the public the carbon tax is necessary and viable?" currently 92 % say NO.

That's a different question. Essentially it's asking people not what their own attitude is to the carbon tax, but what they think is the attitute of other people to it.

Whether people realise that that's what they're being asked, and answer accordingly, is another matter entirely.

Sylvia.

ax.

Just the same, 90% of people think that other people don't approve of it, and generally people will be biased to their own opinion when they answer, or on what they hear from other people when the subject is discussed.

Either way you look at it, this means that a significant majority of people dont support the tax.

and

• Abolish capital punishment.
• Send young men to thier deaths in the Vietnam War.
• Send young men to their deaths in the Korean War.
• Send young men to their deaths in the Afghan War.
• Send young men to their deaths in the Iraq War.
• Switch to decimal currency.
• Switch to the Metric system.
• Etc.

The government does not have to consult with the public for every decision it makes. That is just a delusion implanted by Abbott.

If you don't like the carbon tax/ETS, then you can vote for Abbott at the next election. He has promised to dismantle the carbon tax/ETS and replace it with his dodgy, discredited, fully taxpayer funded waste of money.