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daveklepper, you are boss! II love the tech talk about electricity and electric motors! Why don't they teach this in our high schools instead of social analysis and party planning! <br /> <br />Perhaps our European friends would enjoy hearing that, very early in the 20th Century, North America might have adopted DC as the standing household current. But DC by its nature has to have its transmission "refreshed" by means of a booster station or intermediate way current station (<font color="red"><b>surely someone out there knows the correct term?) </b></font id="red"> -- several times more than AC. In essence, Thomas Edison had hissy fits until AC became the American norm. <br /> <br />On a recent trip to Las Vegas, halfway to the southern I-15 border at Primm, NV, I saw such a "whatchamacallit" electric facility out in the middle of nowhere where there were no residents, agriculture, or industry, just I-15, Uncle Pete's banged-up diesels, and the electric wires; about 22 miles from anything else either direction. <br /> <br />In Europe with its, I believe, 220V standard, such "refreshers" have to appear much more often, but they're hidden by other aspects of civilization. Recall that in the greatest number of EU countries one is rarely out of sight of the next town or village -- no real Mohave Desert to cross grid wires with. <br /> <br />There is practically no "hinterland" left in Western Europe. But America still has a lot of hinterland. Some people believe that this (relative) isolation creates isolationists politically -- the red-state effect to use an increasingly inflammatory but nearly meaningless term. <br /> <br /> <br />
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