[142429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sat Jun 25 20:00:02 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E06738A.20707@trelane.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:59:09 -0700
To: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 25, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Andrew D Kirch wrote:
> On 6/25/2011 7:43 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
>> 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.
>>=20
> Why can't we just all use DC and be happy?
motors don't 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
