Smart Meters - electricity

[Russell]

Anyways...

OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. This is a forum after all, not a literature contest.

It is just that I am such a big fan of Strunk and White.

For my education, when you have the time, go for your life with your red pen to show what I should have cut from the problem post.

Sometimes I wonder if many of the people here can read English but that doesn't stop me linking.

As you say it may be very dependent on locality. Since the rates paid for electricity in and solar generated electricity out in this country are different, as indeed are the rates for hydro generated electricity and wind generated electricity different again, my understanding is that there are at least two meters with different polarity, one measuring in and recording time of day (as the rates inwards are different by time as well) and the other recording electricity being returned to the grid. In that case, a meter with a reverse function will be insufficient for proper payment of power sold by you to the grid.

I could have removed the half-line meandering tangent about hydro and wind generation, but that is about all I think. If you have other pointers, I am interested to hear. Of course, you managed it in one line but I would say that you could manage that because you piggybacked on the background in my post.

Ouch, what did I get myself into. Let me sleep a night over it.

Just one indication why I didn't get your point the first time: I read the first two lines of the paragraph, because I assumed that was the key point being made. The following lines would give more details, but are basically supplementary, so I skipped those. Unfortunately, they contained the main information.

Of course, Japanese writing is different. It tends to first give the background, and then build up to a climax later in the paragraph. That climax should come at the end (I guess), but that does not always happen...

OK. I would have satisfied both your expectations and the expectations of the internet if I had said

You are an idiot and you are wrong. Reverse won't help because rates are different.

I suppose I could do BBC online one sentence paragraphs.

I do find them annoying, however.

May I suggest that you only quote the portions of text you have read?

That goes for articles quoted as well.

Then we can have fun saying angrily that you haven't read the thread.

We can then also accuse you of selectively quoting to try to unfairly support your own view.

Looks like I hit a nerve here...

[wagyl]

As I say, the internet makes all people look angry.

You just had the bad luck to be the one who launched into a reply without actually reading what you were replying to. It could have been any number of other posters here.

[Russell]

As I say, the internet makes all people look angry.

You just had the bad luck to be the one who launched into a reply without actually reading what you were replying to. It could have been any number of other posters here.

And I pointed out the reason why I didn't read the reply in detail: the organization of the writing.