Re: [AGA-Member] undergravel heaters -- or - off topic AC currenttrivia ; -)

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Lineman are a special breed, and I proudly serve them making sure they go
home too there families every night.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Flory" <wyogeo@hotmail.com>
To: <aga-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-Member] undergravel heaters -- or - off topic AC
currenttrivia ; -)


> And where was the first long distance AC transmission ----- see Bottom
Post
>
> >From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Member Chat
> ><aga-member@thekrib.com>
> >To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Member Chat <aga-member@thekrib.com>
> >Subject: Re: [AGA-Member] undergravel heaters -- or -
> >uncoveringthecostsandbenefits
> >Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 12:11:38 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >--- Troy Hendrickson <t_hendrickson@qwest.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, funny but you don't hear the dark side of Edison's
> > > success, good
> > > inventor, too bad he tried to use his inventions to gain
> > > monopolies, but
> > > such is the corporate world.
> > >
> > > Interestingly enough, from what I've read, Edisons
> > > original idea was to have
> > > localized generating stations in every neighborhood,
> >
> >
> >With DC that would have been mandatory. That was the
> >biggest drawback to DC vs AC, the distance it could be
> >carried usefully.
> >
> > > each home having
> > > it's own generator. Considering the problems of
> > > maintaining a massive
> > > infrastructure as is required for AC power, time may show
> > > the ultimate folly
> > > of AC, escpecially since many household electronics
> > > immediately convert AC
> > > to DC before any other process.
> >
> >The cost of power generating stations every few blocks was
> >going to be astronomical. It will never get any cheaper.
> >
> > > . . .
> > > Interesting though, back to original discussion, at least
> > > to the point where
> > > I hijacked it, lineman routinely hook up to live lines
> > > suspended on
> > > platforms and other devices, the only ill effect being a
> > > queezy feeling,
> > > which is due to the fields surrounding them when doing
> > > so, a mesh suit
> > > apparently takes care of that.
> >
> >They are enjoying essential the same protection as the bird
> >on a wire - the current has better places to go than
> >through their body, if it's done right.
> > >
> > > I like to imagine the first person they tried that system
> > > on.
> >
> >On a smaller scale but evidencing the same principles, that
> >would have been Tesla ;-) .
> >
>
> The Mining Town of Bodie, Ca now a ghost town.  20 KM (13 miles) of
> absolutly straight transmission line.... there was a concern the
electricity
> would leak if there were bends in the lines late 1892's ....   Done by a
Jim
> Cain .  The guy who did the actual work ended up with a company later
known
> as GE.
>
> bob
>
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