Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

[Ingo Flaschberger <if () xip at>]

> > > Take a guess what the datacenter our equipment is currently hosted in uses.  Yet another reason to be glad of a datacenter 
> > > move that's coming up.
> > Why can't we just all use DC and be happy?
>
> motors don't produce DC?

dc generators produce dc.

> tesla vs edison?
>
> human safe dc voltage requires comically large conductors for the sorts of loads we energize?
>
> transmission loss except at very high voltages...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

but transforming is not easy.
ac/ac transformers are easy tu build and very immune against lightning 
strikes - inverter systems are not.

Kind regards,
        Ingo Flaschberger