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Article #4627Re: Urban Myths again
From: Brian Kantor
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 23:17
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 1990 23:17
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One place I worked used so much electrical power that the power company ran a direct feed from the substation to the plant, and we had both watt AND var metering on the various distribution points. How much power? Well, they moved the plant to Washington state to get their power direct from a dam instead of buying it from SDG&E. When you consider that the product was costed at about $1,000 of raw material and $5,000 of electricity each, you know it's a lot of power. We're talking 3-inch cylinders of pure ruby or sapphire, about 15 inches long, BTW. - Brian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!uci-ics!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucsd!brian From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Urban Myths again Keywords: electrons Message-ID: <13085@ucsd.Edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 23:17:14 GMT References: <1209@gtx.com> <14306@lambda.UUCP> <1646@rsiatl.UUCP> <8830@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <6798@ae.sei.cmu.edu> Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 12