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- From: slmdj@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: DC to AC on large scale???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.095254.62979@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 09:52:54 MDT
- Organization: Utah State University
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- While visiting my uncle in Calif. over Christmas break, he posed a question for
- me... Just so I have an answer for him (and myself too... It's an odd one)
- could someone help me out???
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- He is an assistant city engineer for Adelanto, CA, and told me that the way
- their power is distributed to a large substation is Direct Current! He said
- that the DC is then 'phased' or 'converted' so that there is a three-phase AC
- line to the city distribution grid. Neither of us have any idea how this could
- be accomplished at such power levels (an entire valley, I think!)
-
- Thanks,
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- Paul Cowley * ..."It's easier said than done." And if you don't
- ==EE Undergrad== * believe it, try proving that it's easier done than
- Utah State University * said and you'll find that 'it's easier said that "it's
- C/A1C CAP Utah Wing * easier done than said" than it is done.' Which really
- slmdj@cc.usu.edu * proves that it's easier said than done.
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