Pennsylvania woman gets $284bn electricity bill

[webfact]

Pennsylvania woman gets $284bn electricity bill

 

An electricity bill for more than $284bn (£212bn) left a woman in Pennsylvania stunned... until she found out that the amount was wrong.

 

Mary Horomanski from Eire said the latest bill showed that she had to pay the entire amount by November 2018.

 

"My eyes just about popped out of my head," she told the Erie Times-News. "We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong."

 

Full story:  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42489666

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2017-12-27

[alant]

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

"We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong."

[Yme]

Bitcoin miner or hemp gardener :)

[Basil B]

assuming the bill was for a month, she pays 10.31cents a Kwh and the domestic voltage is 115volt I calculate each supply conductor would have to be in excess of 25' diameter.

[Jdietz]

13 minutes ago, Basil B said:

assuming the bill was for a month, she pays 10.31cents a Kwh and the domestic voltage is 115volt I calculate each supply conductor would have to be in excess of 25' diameter.

 

Well she could've hooked the Christmas lights to 2 phases, and gotten away with 12' cables at 230V..

[Basil B]

8 minutes ago, Jdietz said:

 

Well she could've hooked the Christmas lights to 2 phases, and gotten away with 12' cables at 230V..

But the voltage across 2 phases would be in the region of 200v not 230v...