"Then how did you miss the difference in efficiencies between the gasoline engine and the electrical motor and the fact that a 480 volt line would be 3-phase?"
The efficiencies stated by one poster are horribly mis-stated and incorrect. I simply didn't want to argue about that. He's just wrong, but I don't care.
And no, I also didn't wish to bring up the finer points of 3-phase power, delta or wye connections - it would spoil the tongue-in-cheek intent of my post. square roots of 3 do that to jokes, y'know.
--The efficiencies stated by one poster are horribly mis-stated and incorrect. I simply didn't want to argue about that. He's just wrong, but I don't care.
And no, I also didn't wish to bring up the finer points of 3-phase power, delta or wye connections - it would spoil the tongue-in-cheek intent of my post.--
One must at least try to be accurate or one loses credibility.