Edison was at one extreme Tesla on the other. Edison believed in methods
involving thousands of trial an error experiments and Tesla believed in
analytical thinking and paper design. Similar to many individuals in typical
upper management who do not have the time to understand the scientific
principles, Edison believed in people who performed experiments in the lab and
created something that "worked". Instead of the "vile and barbaric"
demonstrations on safety had Edison been capable to quantify that AC power
transmission at equivalent potential to DC transmission was lossier, he would
have won. (By the way, my very clever and funny cat Mr. Zippy, thinks Edison
totally sucked as far as humans go.) IMO if Edison was smart enough to present
the facts and if he guided his army of engineers to develop efficient DC/DC
conversion equipment we would have been ahead of where we are on HVDC power
transmission and DC motors today.
Oh well such is life.
Ahmet
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:30:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] electricity
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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From:
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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