Comment Re:Just got here (Score 1) 183
Addicting may be used as participle adjective so "Facebook Can Be Addicting" is in fact grammatically acceptable.
Tell that to OPEC.
Just use an uninterrupted power supply system. It can be built to draw current only when the batteries are low, and that can be programmed in, so that the actual draw of electricity is orthogonal to the use of the electricity. Think kind of like a Prius.
This sounds like an energy-efficient design. Some else suggested a capacitor--that wouldn't be so bad, I suppose.
One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.