It wasn't that way.
There was no way DC could be used for electric power transmission because of I
squared R losses.
Despite the vile and barbaric efforts of Thomas Edison and GE to promote DC by
publicly and horrifically electrocuting domestic animals with ac, three phase
ac "won out" because it was the only way to successfully engineer the electric
power grid.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
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To: [email protected]
Sent: 3/11/2009 9:33:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] electricity
[email protected] writes:
That's ironic, since Edison was so viciously against alternating current. Norm
Yep, thank goodness that Westinghouse won out, lest we would have a DC power
station every couple of city blocks.
Carl
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