RE: Why choose 120 volts?

I stop at licking the 9v batteries, intentionally, but I have been burned by 50KV before. Just imagine the copper you could save by just sending the energy thru the air, but then I guess the DC would sound and look more like the death star. -----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared@puck.nether.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:56 PM To: Kurt Anderson Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Why choose 120 volts? On May 26, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Kurt Anderson wrote:

Why stop there? Grab a 20,000 volt feeder and create a Tesla datacenter. Think of all the copper you will save...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4468957986746104671 - Jared