[142452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Sun Jun 26 17:36:38 2011
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:36:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <01311F06-D888-470E-B1DE-D137E86FA8AB@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> 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
