On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:25:51 GMT, DerbyBorn
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On Sunday, July 27, 2014 9:50:16 PM UTC+1, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:12:35 -0700 (PDT), David Paste wrote

My question is that if we were to have a brand new electrical
system, common to all areas, what would, or could, it be? Still AC?
300 volts? Different frequency?

I doubt there's any such thing as an "ideal" system you could roll
out world-wide. There are pros and cons with all systems before you
even get to considering regional and national particularities.

Any sane system can do the task. A large spreadsheet should be able to
work out what's cheapest.


NT


I sometimes stay awake at night wondering how it would be if electrons only
went at about 100mph!!

Splutter!!! That's around about 5 or 6 orders of magnitude faster
than the typical drift speed of electrons in a copper cable carrying 5
amps in a 1mm diameter conductor (about 0.75 mm squared CSA). Were
you, perhaps, thinking of using superconducting cables?
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J B Good