On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 12:44:01AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Electricity didn't go much of anywhere without AC - I recall Edison > tried with DC. Can't remember alternators - would that be Seimens??
For crossing "large" distances DC is used, whereas AC is more useful for local distribution. Interesting reads: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/off-goes-the-power-current-started-by-thomas-edison/ http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/11/16/225213/the-last-dc-power-grid-shut-down-in-nyc -- "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111005133559.GJ17950@fischer
