Magnet Myths and Misconceptions

[EMJunkie]

The irony is that now it is low frequency AC distribution that is inferior, but so costly to replace that it will be with us for a long time.  What they could not do in the time of Tesla and Edison was up convert and down convert DC.  With AC that's as simple as using a transformer.  But if you want to transmit power over long distances efficiently, then since the 1950's the way to do that has been high voltage DC.  High voltage DC does not:  Suffer parasitic induction losses to the ground, or Require frequency synchronization, or Require power factor management.  High voltage DC does have one big problem:  Once a DC arc starts it is hell to stop it.

MarkE - I was not expecting this from you! Very Constructive! And Intuitive!

To truly have a solution that is even more IDEAL is to have no such thing as Transmission Lines and to keep the Transmitting medium as short as possible. This is surely the answer we are all here trying to find common ground on?

Kind Regards

  Chris

[MarkE]

MarkE - I was not expecting this from you! Very Constructive! And Intuitive!

To truly have a solution that is even more IDEAL is to have no such thing as Transmission Lines and to keep the Transmitting medium as short as possible. This is surely the answer we are all here trying to find common ground on?

Kind Regards

  Chris

Transmission provides lots of benefits.  If you go back to the time of Edison, that's when we had locally generated power, because transmission was a big problem.  Edison was forced to locate power houses very close to his customers.  Tesla's AC system enabled transmission over distance.  But now it is more efficient to transmit large power over high voltage DC.

A problem for the power companies and the terrestrial phone companies alike is that as residences move to more and more localized power and cell phones, the wiring into neighborhoods ceases to support the big profit centers of power and phone service that they once did.  But if one doesn't want to have local back-up generators similar to the generators every few blocks of Edison, then one has to figure out a combination of technology and policy that ensures a reliable power supply that does not depend on the gouging imposed by the existing power utilities.  It may be that the only practical way to deal with this is to phase out private ownership of transmission facilities.  Why is it that we use government to build and maintain the roads, water lines, and sewer, but we use private companies to provide power and data transmission?

[EMJunkie]

@Mark - I think you missed my point - I meant, off grid, your own Energy Machine 

Chris

[EMJunkie]

@All - This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTgIxhfhRcg

@: 23:38 on

It gives a fairly good description of what AC has said.

Also, makes one think a bit more on the Conventional Field Lines!

Thanks AC!

Kind Regards

Chris

[sparks]

Why is it that we use government to build and maintain the roads, water lines, and sewer, but we use private companies to provide power and data transmission?


  Easier to regulate and tax the private companies on profits and users indirectly than to actually provide a service in exchange for taxation?