denverpilot
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Tesla Coil.
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Non Compos Mentis
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Since Teslas are electric cars, they do not use a coil to fire the spark plugs.
Since Teslas are electric cars, they do not use a coil to fire the spark plugs.
John221us
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I happened to be in NYC when David Blaine was firing Tesla coils at himself a couple of months ago. I stopped in for a few minutes to view it, but he had them turned off and was screwing around with his suit. Since it was raining, I gave up waiting and left.
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Tesla is a Sacramento band, thank you.
DeeG
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Tesla > Edison
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Edison won the battle but Tesla won the war (AC vs DC). Unfortunately Tesla went bankrupt in the process of winning.
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Ironically the Edison DC power distribution for long distances is being look again. Unlike DC AC suffer from inductive losses inherent on high voltage long power lines. By using DC these losses are eliminated. However the DC power needs to be converted to AC to allow the voltage conversions at the substations, which is accomplished by the use of AC transformers. With today technology the conversion of DC to AC promises to be efficient enough to justify the use of DC on long runs.
José
DeeG
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Yup. Kinda stung a bit, especially since Edison promised to pay him a large sum of money to resolve issues with Edisons DC motors. When Tesla fixed everything, Edison refused to pay him, claiming he was 'only joking' about the money.
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Both Edison and Westinghouse made fortunes off of Tesla and screwed him, but that's how you get Great in American business, screw everybody including the people that got you to the top.
flhrci
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I was under the impression from History Channel's recent "America: The Story of US" that JP Morgan made all the money and forced Westinghosue out of the electric industry using blackmail.
Hmmmm...
David
That was after Westinghouse screwed Tesla, Tesla is who Westinghouse used to get there. It still fits the 'Screw You' pattern of American business ethic.
Look at the history of oil and Spindle Top. The guy that stuck it out there and went against all the scientists of the industry who said there was no significant oil deposits in TX and fought to get financing to drill a well couldn't even get on the contract when a partner he sought out managed to get backing from the Mellon family. Guy proves all the nay sayers wrong, makes them billions of dollars which are still flowing today and dies a pauper.
This is what anyone smart in the US has to look forward to, it starts in grade school and never ends.
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Actually, we've had a high voltage (1 MV?) DC intertie between the PNW and California for decades. Takes the extra power generated by the dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers and sends it to the folks in SoCal. Or, it did when I was in college 40 years ago. I wonder if there is still a surplus of generating capacity up here?
Another highly charge topic today... clouds.
DeeG
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I can call my buddy Ron at the PUD ops center and ask him. :wink2: With the current rates as low as they are (Douglas County is at 2.3 cents p/kwh and Chelan is at 2.7 cents p/kwh) I'm pretty sure that the dams within the area are selling all the excess to Bonneville Power.
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flhrci
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Lightning?