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To: Disambiguator

Or maybe, as valid as the concepts might be, they have limited commercial applications.


8 posted on 05/24/2016 3:00:48 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30
Or maybe, as valid as the concepts might be, they have limited commercial applications.

IIRC it was Tesla who developed AC transmission, Westinghouse that incorporated it, then put it to wide scale use, and Edison who fought it tooth and nail before dropping DC and swamping the competition in the market. AC is precisely what created commercial applications of electricity.

42 posted on 05/24/2016 3:23:17 PM PDT by norton
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Bingo. For example, it’s a neat trick to transmit power wirelessly, but as a general power delivery method, it’s unworkable in a society that wants to sell the electricity, because there is no feasible way to measure usage.


94 posted on 05/24/2016 5:32:10 PM PDT by Boogieman
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