🚀 go-pugleaf

While visiting my uncle in Calif. over Christmas break, he posed a question for
me... Just so I have an answer for him (and myself too... It's an odd one)
could someone help me out???

He is an assistant city engineer for Adelanto, CA, and told me that the way
their power is distributed to a large substation is Direct Current!  He said
that the DC is then 'phased' or 'converted' so that there is a three-phase AC 
line to the city distribution grid.  Neither of us have any idea how this could
be accomplished at such power levels (an entire valley, I think!)

Thanks, 
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