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<blockquote data-quote="2cvbloke" data-source="post: 1068457" data-attributes="member: 199791"><p>If it weren't for Tesla, we would have power stations on every street corner producing DC power as per Edison's "ideal" power, Tesla made AC popular through giving his idea to Westinghouse (they were close to bankruptcy, so he shared information to save them rather than sell it), who created transmission-efficient AC grids that could keep a power statin miles away, but with very little loss through transforming voltages up and down as and when required to reduce losses... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Kind of ironic to think that in the past 20 years, we've kind of gone back to the Edison way of local generation with solar power on peoples' roofs generating DC, which of course has to be inverted to AC to be fed into the building and/or grid...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2cvbloke, post: 1068457, member: 199791"] If it weren't for Tesla, we would have power stations on every street corner producing DC power as per Edison's "ideal" power, Tesla made AC popular through giving his idea to Westinghouse (they were close to bankruptcy, so he shared information to save them rather than sell it), who created transmission-efficient AC grids that could keep a power statin miles away, but with very little loss through transforming voltages up and down as and when required to reduce losses... :) Kind of ironic to think that in the past 20 years, we've kind of gone back to the Edison way of local generation with solar power on peoples' roofs generating DC, which of course has to be inverted to AC to be fed into the building and/or grid... [/QUOTE]
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