[60812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Sat Aug 16 17:58:44 2003
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:58:05 -1000
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http://www.hydro.mb.ca/our_facilities/ts_nelson.shtml
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: East Coast outage?
>
> Once upon a time, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> said:
> > Maybe a stupid question...
> >
> > But what if the huge distribution systems used DC and the whole thing
> > was only converted to AC close to the users in small installations?
> > This would get rid of the frequency problems.
>
> Basic physics. To run DC at the power levels required, the "wire" would
> have to be over 100 feet in diameter IIRC. Look up the Edison vs. Tesla
> power arguments for all kinds of information on AC vs. DC.
>
> This is one of the problems that makes the room-temperature
> superconductor a "holy grail" research area.
>
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
