Electricity lesson
From the Los Angeles Times:Power transmission: A graphic in Tuesday's Section A about the role of transformers in distributing power to homes referred to current being stepped up to hundreds of thousands of volts on its way from the generating plant to a receiving station. The voltage is stepped up in that process. Current is measured in amperes, not volts, and it is reduced in that process.
Believers in Ohm's Law can breathe a sigh of relief. By the way, here's the source the Times misquoted when discussing stepping up voltage for long-distance transmission.
newspapers, media, errors, science
posted by Unknown @ 7/27/2006 08:53:00 AM
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