Alright so I know that this assignment is super late but I’ve been abadoned my previous topic due to it being hard to find sources. The new topic I’ve picked is one much closer to my actual interests and one that I hope will help everyone who reads it know a little bit one how the way electricity gets to your house along with all the research that had to be done to get it to work.
Topic: Power Transmission over Distance: Alternating Current or Direct Current
Ever since the discovery of electricity there has been a battle between Alternating Current and Direct Current. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were their champions respectively.
My sources all have to do with how power is either collected or transmitted or both. Here they are:
- This source appears in the March 2007 edition of IEEE magagizne and details the advantages of using direct Current to transport power from off-shore wind turbines to shore. Bresesti, Paola, et al. EZProxy Login, IEEE, Mar. 2007, ieeexplore-ieee-org.hal.weber.edu/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=4105997.
- This next sources is a book written specifically about AC and DC style transmission methods. Liu, Zhenya. Ultra-High Voltage AC/DC Grids. Elsevier, 2015.
- In this source it discusses the efficiency of both Alternating Current and Direct Current. Starke , Michael. EZProxy Login, 12 May 2008, ieeexplore-ieee-org.hal.weber.edu/document/4517256.
- This last source discusses the benefits of using a DC based Power transmission system. “Primer on transmission: AC vs. DC. (Power Pointers).” Electric Light & Power, vol. 80, no. 6, June 2002, p. 38. Gale OneFile: Business, https://link-gale-com.hal.weber.edu/apps/doc/A87468680/ITBC?u=ogde72764&sid=ITBC&xid=f2c0c3f1. Accessed 30 Mar. 2020.
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