Our body’s nervous system produces electrical impulses. These neuro impulses send messages throughout our bodies. Any external electrical voltage higher than these natural impulses will disrupt the body’s electrical rhythm, causing harm to the body. The duration of this “shock” and where the external power source enters and leaves the body, will account for the [...]
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SEMICONDUCTORS
The advent of extremely low voltages being used to power semiconductors has changed every aspect of our lives. The computer and the advanced technologies and knowledge that have generated from its development, run virtually everything from the pacemaker in grandpa’s chest, to exploring space. We are surrounded and controlled by electricity in one form or [...]
VOLTS, AMPS AND WATTS
What They Mean to Each Other and You We’ve talked about what electricity is, what it means to you, how it’s produced, how it gets to you, now let’s talk about what makes it work for you. Let’s talk about volts, amps and watts. I researched a number of different ways to define these terms [...]
ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION OF POWER
Now that we’ve seen the ways we generate electricity (primarily, heated water driving generator turbines), we need to discuss getting the power from the generating station to your home or business. Electric power transmission is carried over high tension wires at much higher voltages (sometimes 500,000 volts) than you the consumer require, or are governmentally [...]
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