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The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC

Posted by Zonk on from the edison-we-barely-knew-ye dept.

cell-block-9 writes "Today the last section of the old Edison DC power grid will be shut down in Manhattan. 'The last snip of Con Ed's direct current system will take place at 10 East 40th Street, near the Mid-Manhattan Library. That building, like the thousands of other direct current users that have been transitioned over the last several years, now has a converter installed on the premises that can take alternating electricity from the Con Ed power grid and adapt it on premises.' I guess Tesla finally won the argument."

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  1. Re:HIP HIP HURRAY by JackSpratts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol@steamdot. :)

    btw, westinghouse ripped off tesla, not edison. edison did everything he could to discredit ac but george and morgan really took nicola to the cleaners.

    - js.

  2. Tesla is awesome by SlshSuxs · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nor did the man outta time, man outta time. Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind. Man outta time, man outta time. All along, world was wrong. You was right.

  3. Re:Tesla won but... by aproposofwhat · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In Soviet Russia, Lenin electrifies you!

    :P

    --
    One swallow does not a fellatrix make
  4. MOD DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes please mod this mofo down!

    I'm tired of reading like 50 comments of him in every slashdot article. He is polluting my blogsphere!