Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

It doesn't matter if you see it in realtime or not.

Here, the price per hour can be different, and one day to the next too. That needs a smart meter that can meter that.

If you hate the idea, it is irrelevant.

If you somehow have an electromechanical meter, they will charge you the highest price per hour of the month. No problem.

Yes :-D

I did not choose.

It derives from simply having little water in the country.

Think that way, and you will not care about paying double the normal bill in water.

This one doesn't:

The LCD becomes too faint.

The UK offers unmetered service for circa UKP30-40/month. That's rare in most other parts of the world which as you note have limited supplies of fresh potable water.

Most of the American west is in serious or extreme drought conditions.

Water Factoids:

We have plenty of water from the Great Lakes. My water is metered anyway. We pay for what we use; we're not communists. Manufacture of potable water costs money to treat the incoming water and outgoing sewage. Like any other manufacturing cost, it's passed along to the consumer.

"Flint"

They had plenty of water. They also had other problems.

Bad info there; they go dead by self-discharge in a few months, only with multiple recharges do they last so long. A clock that's wrong every few months is... much worse than one that works five or ten years on an alkaline C cell. Keeping a note of battery insertion date would clear up this kind of confusion, in a few months.

:-D

So not required. With wind turbines, you'd use the electricity obviously.

Do you always go through life worrying about possibilities?

Pssst, move away from the hot thing.

And your buildings need insulated pipes running everywhere.

Where I used to live (Dundee, Scotland) there was a furnace for burning rubbish. Never noticed the smell above the leaking gas from the gas storage towers.

Probably more to do with morons thinking it's dangerous to be next to one.

Which begs the question why do the bugs die?

Condensing boilers break down.

California is full of morons affected presumably by the heat.

Hang on, they heat water in California?!

Running cost maybe, but not purchase cost, those things cost a fortune and wear out.

We could use giant internal combustion engines. 50% from a diesel.