![]() These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. The ’Mech, Combat Vehicle and Battle Armor designs from the Project Phoenix section of Technical Readout: 3085 can be found in BattleTech Record Sheets: 3085 Unabridged - Project Phoenix. The ’Mech, Combat Vehicle and Battle Armor designs from the Cutting Edge section of Technical Readout: 3085 can be found in BattleTech Record Sheets: 3085 Unabridged - The Cutting Edge. With the end of the Jihad, the survivors are rebuilding their shattered armies, introducing new machines to replace those whose factories ceased to exist in the fires of the Jihad.īattleTech Record Sheets: 3085 Unabridged - Old is the New New offers players the record sheets for all the ’Mechs detailed in the corresponding section of BattleTech Technical Readout: 3085, many variants making their debut here. Stepping into that vacuum, Stone forged a new “Terran Hegemony” in The Republic of the Sphere. In the end, Terra had been freed with the Word of Blake scattered to the darkest corners of the universe. The two-year final push to Terra was the bloodiest fighting seen in centuries. ![]() This article is part of our “Deeper Dive” series where we examine the stories behind our Wondrium Shorts on YouTube.In December 3076, Devlin Stone marshaled the nations of the Inner Sphere and began Operation SCOUR. “High voltage is far more efficient for transmitting power over long distances.” “In fact, semiconductor switches and other advances have made it possible for some newer electric systems, particularly some in China, to use high-voltage DC for long-distance links on the order of thousands of kilometers. “Ironically, several of the things that made AC the choice when transmission systems were first installed have now changed,” she said. Even the switches that converted voltages from lower to higher values were more expensive when using DC. Bottomley, AC can be transmitted with less resistive loss of power than DC for distances up to 700 miles. Ironically, the lack of resistance in alternating current also made it more attractive for long-distance transmission of electric power. It takes nearly six times as much DC to injure a human as it does for AC.” “AC tends to go under the skin at lower voltages, traveling to the inner organs. “When a person comes into contact with an energized circuit, DC tends to stay on the surface of the skin at higher currents than AC,” Dr. Edison even took it a step further by working with the state of New York to develop an execution method for prisoners, using AC to prove its danger to the public. He participated in large events showing the public that alternating current was unsafe, even using AC to kill large animals live on stage. However, rather than selling DC on its own merits, Edison instead spent his time defaming AC. Bottomley, much like Westinghouse, Edison was motivated by his own patents to license DC for widespread use. So began a famous competition for public sentiment over which type of current to use in the electric power distribution system.”Īccording to Dr. “Tesla sold his patents to inventor George Westinghouse, who became Edison’s biggest rival. “While Edison was championing DC, another inventor, Nikola Tesla, had left Edison’s company and gone on to acquire several patents concerning AC,” Dr. Bottomley, Director of Women in Engineering, Engineering Education, and The Engineering Place at North Carolina State University, describes how the power wars turned unpleasant. In her video series Engineering School for Everyone: Electrical Engineering, Dr. Over the years, the rivalry between AC and DC currents raged and became increasingly ugly. Edison, not content to let the features and benefits of DC speak for themselves, spent years slandering AC and attempting to show the public that it was dangerous and unfit for home use. ![]() ![]() During that time, an employee of his-Nikola Tesla-left Edison’s company to work on current that flowed in two directions, known as alternating current (AC). Thomas Edison spent time and money working on electrical current that flowed in one direction, known as direct current (DC).
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