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War of Currents
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In the War of Currents era (sometimes, War of the Currents or Battle of Currents) in the late 1880s, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution against alternating current (AC) advocated by several European companies and Westinghouse Electric based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which had acquired many of the patents by Nikola Tesla.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/quotes
IMDb
Armageddon (1998)
Quotes
Harry Stamper: What's your contingency plan?
Truman: Contingency plan?
Harry Stamper: Your backup plan. You gotta have some kind of backup plan, right?
Truman: No, we don't have a back up plan. This is it.
Harry Stamper: And this is the best that you c - that the-the government, the *U.S. government* can come up with? I mean, you-you're NASA for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You-you're the guys that think this shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You're telling me you don't have a backup plan, that these eight boy scouts right here, that is the world's hope, that's what you're telling me?
Truman: Yeah.
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Outer Limits (1963)
The Inheritors
Lt. Philip Minns: How'd you know I'm a lieutenant, Johnny?
Johnny: How'd you know I'm Johnny?
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War of Currents
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The direct-current system generated and distributed electrical power at the same voltage as used by the customer's lamps and motors. This required the use of large, costly, distribution wires and forced generating plants to be near the loads. With the development of a practical transformer, alternating-current power could be sent long distances over relatively small wires at a convenient high voltage, then reduced in voltage to that used by a customer. Alternating current generating stations could be larger, cheaper to operate, and the distribution wires were relatively less costly. As the competing systems were protected by patents, there was commercial rivalry between the Westinghouse and Edison companies. A publicity campaign by Edison highlighted the safety issues of high voltage transmission.
The lower cost of AC power distribution prevailed, though DC systems persisted in some urban areas throughout the 20th century. While DC power is not used generally for the transmission of energy from power plants into homes as Edison and others intended, DC power is still common when distances are small and is used in essentially all modern electronic devices, such as computers, telephones, and automotive systems.
I soon remembered. Something I puzzled over that I had there in that apartment at the time that I do not have here and that presumably now is not obvious by comparing the subtle differences.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:06 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 10 October 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/10/patient-zero.html
I also can't remember what the hell the light fixtures are supposed to be about. Sometimes rarely my cryptic method of recording my observations backfires and I can't remember what the hell it was I was noting.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 10 October 2014 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 04:02 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Saturday 28 December 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/12/see-its-this-kind-of-stuff-that-really.html
http://gateworld.net/atlantis/s5/transcripts/510.shtml
GateWorld
FIRST CONTACT
EPISODE NUMBER - 510
DVD DISC - Season 5, Disc 3
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 09.26.08
JACKSON: There. That's the hallway. Can you, uh, can you zoom in there?
(Glaring at him for a moment, Rodney types and the image zooms in on three round objects lying on the floor.)
McKAY: There. There are your light fixtures.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 December 2013 excerpt ends]
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INCEPTION
SAITO
I've always hated this carpet.
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War of Currents
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Background
During the initial years of electricity distribution, Edison's direct current was the standard for the United States, and Edison did not want to lose the associated patent royalties. Direct current worked well with incandescent lamps, which were the principal load of the day
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War of Currents
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Direct-current systems could be directly used with storage batteries, providing valuable load-leveling and backup power during interruptions of generator operation. Direct-current generators could be easily operated in parallel, allowing economical operation by using smaller machines during periods of light load and improving reliability. At the introduction of Edison's system, no practical AC motor was available. Edison had invented a meter to allow customers to be billed for energy proportional to consumption, but this meter worked only with direct current.
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War of Currents
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In North America one of the believers in the new technology was George Westinghouse. Westinghouse was willing to invest in the technology and hired William Stanley, Jr. to work on an AC distribution system using step up and step down transformers of a new design in 1886. After Stanley left Westinghouse, Oliver Shallenberger took control of the AC project. In July 1888, George Westinghouse licensed Nikola Tesla's US patents for a polyphase AC induction motor and transformer designs and hired Tesla for one year to be a consultant at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh labs. Westinghouse purchased a US patent option on induction motors from Galileo Ferraris in an attempt to own a patent that would supersede Tesla's. But with Tesla's backers getting offers from another capitalist to license Tesla's US patents, Westinghouse concluded that he had to pay the rather substantial amount of money being asked to secure the Tesla license.
http://www.krem.com/story/sports/ironman/2014/11/21/cda-chambers-of-commerce-ending-ironman/19368535/
KREM2
Cost threatens to pull Ironman out of Coeur d'Alene
Taylor Viydo, KREM.com 6:10 p.m. PST November 21, 2014
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho – The Coeur d'Alene Chambers of Commerce is considering ending its sponsorship with the Ironman race after either the 2016 or 2017 race.
The Chamber officials said it is becoming too expensive to put on the race and without their sponsorship the race could not happen.
In order for the Ironman race to come to a city, an entity within the city must step forward as a main sponsor and pay for it.
The Ironman race costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and is pretty significant for a city of Coeur d'Alene's size according to the Coeur d'Alene chamber president.
But businesses around the area also help cover the cost of the race.
"To see the Ironman go away, I think it would be disappointing," said Mary Riffe, the Resort City Inn manager. "On the other hand, there's always the financial part of it."
Riffe said her hotel pitched in a little money each year for the race, but added that more local businesses and even the Ironman organization itself should help out more.
"Well first off, I think that Ironman needs to step up, the Ironman foundation," said Riffe. "We're looking at a for profit business."
The Chamber president said he is not sure what would happen if the Ironman would go away, but that it is one of the issues they are currently looking at.
The Chamber of Commerce have not made a final decision because they want to wait and hear the input from other stakeholders that would benefit from Ironman before making that decision.
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War of Currents
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As the competing systems were protected by patents, there was commercial rivalry between the Westinghouse and Edison companies. A publicity campaign by Edison highlighted the safety issues of high voltage transmission.
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War of Currents
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Electric power transmission
The competing systems
Edison's DC distribution system consisted of generating plants feeding heavy distribution conductors, to customer loads primarily lighting and motors. The system operated at the same voltage level throughout; for example, 100 volt lamps at the customer's location would be connected to a generator supplying 110 volts, the margin allowed for some voltage drop in the wires between the generator and load. The voltage level was chosen for convenience in lamp manufacture; high-resistance carbon filament lamps could be constructed to withstand 100 volts, and to provide lighting performance economically competitive with gas lighting. At the time it was felt that 100 volts was not likely to present a severe hazard of fatal electric shock.
To save on the cost of copper conductors, a three-wire distribution system was used. The three wires were at +110 volts, 0 volts and −110 volts relative potential. 100-volt lamps could be operated between either the +110 or −110 volt legs of the system and the 0-volt "neutral" conductor, which carried only the unbalanced current between the + and − sources. The resulting three-wire system used less copper wire for a given quantity of electric power transmitted, while still maintaining (relatively) low voltages. Even with this innovation, the voltage drop due to the resistance of the system conductors was so high that generating plants had to be located within a mile (1–2 km) or so of the load. Higher voltages could not so easily be used with the DC system because there was no efficient low-cost technology that would allow reduction of a high transmission voltage to a low utilization voltage.
In the alternating current system, a transformer was used to reduce the voltage from the (relatively) high voltage distribution system to a lower and safer voltage for the customer loads. Lamps and small motors could still be operated at some convenient low voltage, but the transformer would allow power to be transmitted at much higher voltages, of say, ten times that of the loads. For a given quantity of power transmitted, the wire cross-sectional area would be inversely proportional to the voltage used. Alternatively, the allowable length of a circuit, for a given wire size and allowable voltage drop, would increase approximately as the square of the distribution voltage. This meant that fewer, larger generating plants could serve the load in a given area. Large loads, such as industrial motors or converters for electric railway power, could be served by the same distribution network that fed lighting, by using a transformer that reduced the voltage to a suitable secondary voltage.
Edison's response to the limitations of direct current was to generate power close to where it was consumed (today called distributed generation) and to install large conductors to handle the growing demand for electricity, but this solution proved to be costly (especially for rural areas which could not afford to build a local station or to pay for the expensive, very thick copper wire), impractical (including inefficient voltage conversion) and unmanageable. Edison and his company would have profited from the construction of the multitude of power plants required to make electricity available in many areas.
Direct current could not easily be converted to higher or lower voltages. This meant that separate electrical lines had to be installed to supply power to appliances that used different voltages, for example, lighting and electric motors. This required more wires to lay and maintain, wasting money and introducing unnecessary hazards. Some deaths in the Great Blizzard of 1888 were attributed to collapsing overhead power lines in New York City.
Low-frequency (50–60 Hz) alternating currents can be more dangerous than similar levels of DC since the alternating fluctuations can cause the heart to lose coordination, inducing ventricular fibrillation, a deadly heart rhythm that must be corrected immediately. Any practical distribution system, capable of delivering sufficient power, will use voltage levels sufficient for a dangerous amount of current to flow, whether it uses alternating or direct current. As precautions against electrocution are similar for both AC and DC, the technical and economic advantages of AC power transmission outweighed this theoretical risk, and it was eventually adopted as the standard worldwide.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:52 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 07 October 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/10/princess-sanders-miss-jones.html
Princess Sanders, Miss Jones.
http://www.tv.com/shows/wings/this-old-house-16257/
tv.com
Wings Season 3 Episode 15
This Old House
Aired Thursday 9:30 PM Jan 30, 1992 on NBC
AIRED: 1/30/92
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Springfield! Springfield!
Intruders
She Was Provisional (Pilot)
It was private.
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IMDb
One Hour Photo (2002)
Quotes
Sy Parrish: Most people don't take snapshots of the little things. The used Band-Aid, the guy at the gas station, the wasp on the Jell-O. But these are the things that make up the true picture of our lives. People don't take pictures of these things.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie1.html
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
KIRK: Navigator, lay in a conic section flight path into the Cloud center. Bring us parallel to whatever we find in there. ...Mister Sulu, tactical plot on viewer.
SULU: Tactical on viewer.
DECKER: That measures twelfth power energy? Thousands of starships couldn't generate that much.
http://gateworld.net/universe/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
AIR, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 10.02.09
WALLACE: OK, follow me. The symbols on a Stargate are constellations as seen from Earth –- that's what you said.
RUSH (impatiently): Yes, yes.
WALLACE: OK, so what if Earth is supposed to be the Point of Origin?
RILEY: Chevron two locked.
RUSH: The only viable power source was here –- light years away.
WALLACE: What if that doesn't matter? What-what if ... what if it's the only combination that'll work, like a code?
RILEY: Chevron three locked.
RUSH: A code?
WALLACE: Yeah!
stargate 00_20_15_PDVD.JPG
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tv.com
Lost Season 1 Episode 18
Numbers
Aired Sunday 9:00 PM Mar 02, 2005 on ABC
AIRED: 3/2/05
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Numbers_transcript
LOSTPEDIA
Episode 18 - "Numbers"
Act 3
[Flashback - We see Hurley in his accountant's office.]
KEN HALPERIN: I would think you'd be happy. Every one of your stocks is up. Your interest in orange futures skyrocketed after those tropical storms hit Florida. And, you are now the majority shareholder for a box company in Tustin.
HURLEY: A box company?
KEN: Mmhmm. They make boxes, lucrative business. Everybody needs boxes. Which reminds me, your sneaker factory in Canada . . .
HURLEY: I have a sneaker factory in Canada?
KEN: Well, not any more. It was destroyed in a fire last month.
HURLEY: Of course it was.
KEN: You might have read about it -- eight something people died. But, the good news is we over-insured it. It's going to yield you a windfall of cash. And, when we add in the generous settlement from the LAPD for your false arrest you've almost doubled your net worth in a few short months. I still can't imagine how the police mistook you for a drug dealer.
HURLEY: Bad luck.
KEN: Hugo, you are not the first lottery winner to believe the money's brought them nothing but trouble. It's all in your head.
HURLEY: What, you don't believe in jinxes? You know, curses?
KEN: I'm an accountant, I believe in numbers. Hey, where'd you get them, anyway?
HURLEY: What?
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Springfield! Springfield!
Resurrection
Miracles
What happened to our car? - Which one? The green one, with the wood on the side.
- Which? - The station wagon.
Right.
They don't make them like that anymore.
Well, why not? Well, fashions change.
And we have to be conscious of the environment.
But I liked our car.
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Numbers_transcript
Lostpedia
Episode 18 - "Numbers"
KEN: Come on, Hugo, listen to yourself. "The numbers are cursed." You know there is no such thing as a-
[A body falls past the window behind the accountant.]
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