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Chapter 222 Alternating Current

"What did I invent?"

Li Ze murmured and said with a smile, "Do you really want to know?"

The three nodded at the same time, and immediately pricked up their ears.They had wanted to know what Li Ze had invented for a long time, but they couldn't find out. They were so curious.

Li Ze said flatly: "I invented electricity."

"what?"

"What the hell?"

"Electricity? Wasn't electricity invented more than 100 years ago?"

"..."

The three said in astonishment, subconsciously it meant that Li Ze was teasing them.

However, Li Ze did not tease them. On the contrary, Li Ze said seriously: "That's right, I invented electricity."

Old Xu smiled wryly: "Don't be ridiculous, electricity is already a good thing, so who else needs to invent it? Elementary school students know it in their textbooks, and how to invent electricity by friction?"

Li Ze said solemnly: "No, it's different. The electricity you talk about and the electricity I talk about are two different concepts."

"Why are there two concepts?"

Li Ze stood up, squinted his eyes and said, "Maybe you don't know? There are actually two types of real electricity."

"Which two? Are there two? Aren't they just called electricity? All elementary school students know that electricity is transmitted through wires and electrified by friction. Have you invented wireless transmission that does not rely on wires for transmission? This is impossible, Some people have mentioned this theory, but this theory cannot be realized."

Li Ze laughed and thought to himself: Is it a radio? More than 100 years ago, Tesla on Earth had indeed proposed the theory of radio, but until his death, he had only invented radio signals, not real wireless transmission of lighting electricity. For more than 100 years, the earth has not been able to study the principles of radio at all.It’s true that you couldn’t invent radio yourself, but…

But another great invention promoted by Tesla, covering the entire earth and becoming a mainstream model, can be done.

No, it cannot be said that only Li Ze can do it.Perhaps, just a plumber with a little common sense on the earth can invent what he invented.

Li Ze said with a smile: "Electricity is divided into two types. They are not positive and negative poles. They are alternating current and direct current."

Haiming frowned and said, "What the hell? What is alternating current and direct current? What is alternating current? What is direct current?"

"Direct current is the mainstream power transmission in our world now, it also covers the whole world, and it is the only kind of electricity in today's society. But I invented alternating current, and alternating current will soon replace the mainstream direct current in the world .As for the difference between these two kinds of electricity, I can’t explain it clearly to you for the time being.”

Li Ze said.

That's right, Li Ze invented alternating current.

And in this parallel world, there is indeed only one kind of electricity, which is direct current, but everyone has no impression of this direct current at all.Scientists have mentioned that there should be another mode of electricity that is easier to use, but it has never been invented.

This world and the earth are actually two worlds, and the course of history is basically the same, but there is a word called the butterfly effect.A small change may produce completely different results.

This world is like this. Since the appearance of direct current until now, no one has suggested that there may be another possibility of electricity, so no one has been researching this aspect.This is very normal, not enterprising thinking.Of course, this is also because no one thought of it at all.

On the earth, the story of alternating current and direct current is quite tortuous, and alternating current is almost unsuccessful.

To understand these two types of electricity, we can first go back more than 100 years ago, that is, the intervening decades from 1870 to 1943.

Thomas~Alva~Edison must be known to everyone.That's right, the abbreviation is Edison.

As we all know, Edison invented the light bulb, but some people don't know that Edison invented direct current, movies, phonograph...

In fact, direct current existed long before Edison. Edison was an entrepreneur, and he was responsible for promoting direct current to every household. This was his greatest achievement.

He invented the light bulb. In fact, to put it bluntly, he did not invent the light bulb. After people invented electricity, they began to think about how to use it.And many scientists have long used scientific instruments to light up electric lamps with electricity, and the principle of electric light emitting light has long been made public.

The role of Edison is actually to minimize the production cost of light bulbs, so low that they can be promoted into every household.

Edison succeeded. Back then, Edison, like Apple now, would develop conferences every once in a while.That's right, the new product launch was also invented by Edison...

He successfully released such things as light bulbs, and the public began to accept them. At the same time, he also began to lay a network of Edison companies.That is to spread direct current to every household, so that every household can use electricity.

However, Tesla entered Edison's company at this time and became Edison's colleague.At this time, Tesla has actually discovered the disadvantage of direct current, that is, it cannot be transmitted over long distances. (This is indeed the case. Until now, the direct current on the earth is actually only used for dry batteries and other products. The alternating current is the mainstream because of cost savings and high efficiency.)
Tesla began to think about alternating current at this time, wrote a large number of papers, and invented the alternator.However, Edison did not accept it. No matter what Tesla said about the benefits of alternating current, Edison did not accept it.

The reason is very simple. Edison actually knew that alternating current was better and more practical than direct current.But there is no way, back to the origin of everything, Edison is not a scientist, he is just an entrepreneur.

Before that, the Edison Company had already laid direct current power stations all over the United States.If you accept AC at this time, wouldn't you have to overturn all the paths you have traveled and start all over again?
This is not possible.Therefore, the contradiction between Tesla and Edison also ended.

In an opportunity where Edison deducted Tesla's salary, Tesla finally left Edison in anger and took refuge in another businessman.Since then, Tesla and Edison have become old enemies, and one of them must live to the death.This is a difference in concept, and at the same time there are reasons for interests, of course, there is also a personal enmity between the two.

From then on, Tesla would rather not have a penny of stock or any patents. He just gave all the results of alternating current to the businessman in vain. His only purpose was actually to make a gamble, that is, to give Edison Prove that alternating current is the mainstream!

(End of this chapter)