Things I want to know

[Moose423956]

1. If you hold in a trump, where does it go? Does it get absorbed inside (yuk)?

[doodab]

Is that really the only thing you want to know?

It doesn't get absorbed no, I expect it either leaks out slowly or just bubbles around until you have a poo.

[TimberWolf]

Don't know the answer to 1.

But here's question 2.

If you use an appliance that is not connected to the electricity company's return wire, how inefficient is this? That is, you only use one wire from the electric company, the live one, and earth locally.

[wobbegong]

Is that really the only thing you want to know?

It doesn't get absorbed no, I expect it either leaks out slowly or just bubbles around until you have a poo.

With some people it smells like it found another exit via their mouth.

[DimPrawn]

Don't know the answer to 1.

But here's question 2.

If you use an appliance that is not connected to the electricity company's return wire, how inefficient is this? That is, you only use one wire from the electric company, the live one, and earth locally.

Ground and neutral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Neutral is locally grounded, so it's the same thing.

[Sands of Time]

There was one thing on QI the other week (Dave / Gold or whatever)

Birds in a lorry - weigh X, birds takeoff and fly in the lorry same weight.

The lorry only weighs less when they fully exit out of the lorry - why?


Bing!

[DimPrawn]

There was one thing on QI the other week (Dave / Gold or whatever)

Birds in a lorry - weigh X, birds takeoff and fly in the lorry same weight.

The lorry only weighs less when they fully exit out of the lorry - why?


Bing!

Downforce from the birds wings. Weight is a force and the birds go up forcing the air down.

[suityou01]

Don't know the answer to 1.

But here's question 2.

If you use an appliance that is not connected to the electricity company's return wire, how inefficient is this? That is, you only use one wire from the electric company, the live one, and earth locally.

An interesting question. Prawn's answer of earth and neutral being the same isn't acutally that daft, although strictly speaking it is wrong.

The substation will have tap offs from the transformer, each one being a phase. As a home owner you only consume one phase, so your neutral is acutally bolted down to the return path of this phase.

Where Prawn is verging on correct is when the supply head is of TN-CS type (terra/netural combined) where the earth and neutral are both earth at the supply.

If you've ever got a pisser from a florrie circuit where some little darling has borrowed a neutral you will understand that neutral should be considered logically seperate from the earth (actually now called CPC - circuit protection conductor).

It is quite feasible to provide your own earthing conductors and use this instead of the company's one, and in section 6 of the regs (Building sites, caravans and marinas IIRC) you have to. The maximum disconnection time is also halved from 0.4 to 0.2 seconds I think.

So in short (pun intended) it is no less efficient to provide your own earthing arrangements, but neutral and earth are not the same.

[Sands of Time]

Downforce from the birds wings. Weight is a force and the birds go up forcing the air down.

So....

If the back doors were open on a large artic, on a very sensitive weigh bridge and I threw a radio controlled glider in - would it register as increased weight before it hit the 'cab' partition at the back?


Bing!

[Spacecadet]

So....

If the back doors were open on a large artic, on a very sensitive weigh bridge and I threw a radio controlled glider in - would it register as increased weight before it hit the 'cab' partition at the back?


Bing!

No