[114792] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why choose 120 volts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Larter)
Tue May 26 19:06:14 2009
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:05:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: <A849392E-D1D4-4AC8-B0DB-D1D3B896B860@puck.nether.net>
From: "Dave Larter" <dave@stayonline.com>
To: "Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>, "Kurt Anderson" <kurt@honeycomb.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I stop at licking the 9v batteries, intentionally, but I have been
burned by 50KV before. Just imagine the copper you could save by just
sending the energy thru the air, but then I guess the DC would sound and
look more like the death star.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net]=20
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:56 PM
To: Kurt Anderson
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Why choose 120 volts?=20
On May 26, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Kurt Anderson wrote:
> Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla =20
> datacenter.
> Think of all the copper you will save...
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3D4468957986746104671
- Jared
