Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Mike Rosing wrote: > > But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no > > royalties on his motor/generator. Something for Brands to think > > about. > > No, we have AC because AC works better than DC in home wiring > situations.
Hmmm. I always thought the reason we went with AC was because at the time, DC power couldn't cut it. They couldn't find any way to reliably transfer DC power more than a half mile or so from the power plant, and when trying to demonstrate it in NYC couldn't even get DC power all the way up a multi-story building. Tesla's AC power solved this problem, after which Edison and his backers started some kind of smear campaign saying that DC was safer and such. Mr Anonymous
