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mic > Power companies will fade away and all those ugly high-tension lines will > dissappear :-) . > > Hoyt Stearns > Scottsdale, Arizona > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 7:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steam engines > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:36 PM, ecat builder <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Hoyt: Are you sure the electric company will want unsynchronized AC? > > I predict that home generators will produce direct current, not AC. DC is > safer because it is less prone to cause electrocution. Electric power > companies will not purchase this power for two reasons: > 1. They will all go out of business. > 2. Electric power will be worthless. Selling it would be like trying to rent > out 10 MB of hard disk space. This is not an imaginary example. In the 1970s > time-share companies rented out hard disk space in increments as small as > this. Nowadays, 10 MB of hard disk space can be purchased for about > one-tenth of a penny, I think. Unless I dropped one or two orders of > magnitude. > >> >> How will the governments keep the electric >> companies in business? > > Why would governments do this? This would be like trying to keep the vacuum > tube computer industry in business. > I expect there will be some initial attempts to keep power companies, and > perhaps even oil companies, in business, but everyone will soon see that > this is a futile waste of money. > - Jed >
