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Re: East Coast outage?
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:58:05 -1000
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/our_facilities/ts_nelson.shtml ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams () hiwaay net> To: <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Re: East Coast outage?
Once upon a time, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com> said:Maybe a stupid question... But what if the huge distribution systems used DC and the whole thing was only converted to AC close to the users in small installations? This would get rid of the frequency problems.Basic physics. To run DC at the power levels required, the "wire" would have to be over 100 feet in diameter IIRC. Look up the Edison vs. Tesla power arguments for all kinds of information on AC vs. DC. This is one of the problems that makes the room-temperature superconductor a "holy grail" research area. -- Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
Current thread:
- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Scott A Crosby (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Vadim Antonov (Aug 15)
- RE: East Coast outage? Eric Germann (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Adams (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Jay Hennigan (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Michael Painter (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? hackerwacker (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Lewis (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Lewis (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Adams (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Randy Neals (ORION) (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? David Lesher (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Chris Lewis (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? Geo. (Aug 16)
- Re: East Coast outage? W.D. McKinney (Aug 14)
- Re: East Coast outage? Crist Clark (Aug 15)