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Re: some of the reason why energy and power definitions areconfusing



Original poster: "john couture" <johncouture-at-bellsouth-dot-net> 

Dan -

I agree my post below does not do anything to further the quest for progress
with Tesla coils and I should not have sent it. However, I do believe that
coilers who are building and testing TC's of all types as you are doing are
helping to make progress with Tesla coils. Keep up the good work.

John Couture

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: some of the reason why energy and power definitions
areconfusing


 > Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation"
<dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com>
 >
 > Terry,
 >
 > I think all this power / energy discussion is gone way off topic for now.
 > Perhaps a polite kill-topic is required!
 >
 > Dan
 >
 >
 >  > All -
 >  >
 >  > I read many years ago that the house power was given a rating of 33000
ft
 >  > lbs for only one reason. That reason was that the engineers designing
the
 >  > newly invented steam engine wanted a one horse power steam engine to be
 >  > capable of doing more work than any real horse. It was then not
possible
 > for
 >  > critics to belittle the engine when compared to a horse. The watt is a
 >  > mechanical unit and found to be 746 watts equal to one horsepower.
 >  >
 >  > John Couture
 >
 >
 >