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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
EMerge Alliance Debuts 26 DC Friendly Products for Commercial Buildings
While Thomas Edison was busily building DC generators across the country, George Westinghouse was championing AC current. Since DC current could only travel about a mile before degrading, AC eventually became the standard because it went hundreds of miles before loosing voltage.
Today’s power grid is AC and when we build buildings we use AC appliances and fixtures. That has been fine for an electrical distribution system that relies on centralized power production, but with the
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