Tesla talked about the development history of electricity, as if there was light in his eyes, which is a treasure for Tesla, because Tesla itself is a scholar-like figure.

Professor Kyle: "Oh, I hope so, but now that I'm in a hurry to get to class, you can keep busy!" ”

He wasn't here to listen to Tesla talk about physics, and then rode the East African government's new bicycle in the direction of the school.

Watching Professor Kyle walk away, Tesla was also happy, after this period of contact, Professor Kyle was a good neighbor, and the two were friends.

"Mom, I'm leaving!"

"Well, come back early."

Tesla said hello to his mother, who was busy taking care of the garden, and slowly went to school.

Tesla's father died last year, so the most important thing in the family is his mother, his father is an Orthodox priest, and his mother is also the daughter of an Orthodox priest, so Tesla's parents once wanted Tesla to be a priest as well.

However, Tesla still embarked on the path of a scientist, which may have something to do with several other inventor relatives in the family, and more importantly, Tesla's parents wanted him to be a priest after graduation, but he wanted to be an engineer himself.

Just as Tesla finished high school, he contracted cholera and spent nine months in a hospital bed without recovering. Tesla begged his father to study engineering when he was seriously ill. His father agreed to send him to the Polytechnic Institute when he recovered. Tesla eventually recovered without incident.

And that cholera, that is, the 1873 Vienna World's Fair, at that time, except for Vienna, the rest of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including many parts of Europe, was very serious, and Tesla was one of the unfortunate ones who was shot.

National Electric Power University of East Africa.

Tesla rode his bicycle into the school gate, and many students greeted him, because Tesla was a relatively well-known figure in the school.

The main thing is that he is too young, but he has become a professor and has important projects in his hands, and no one questions Tesla for such an achievement, because he has just arrived in East Africa for a year, and Tesla, who is idle, has made a huge breakthrough in AC motor research, and after communicating with the bigwigs of Hexingen Power Company, he has been affirmed and appreciated, and even the principal Linde has recognized his research.

However, everyone is not very enthusiastic about whether East Africa will replace direct current with alternating current in the future, mainly because the entire power system in East Africa is based on direct current.

If you want to overturn and rebuild, the amount of work is not small, and although East Africa is a little backward compared to Europe, it is not the case in the field of electricity, so in the era of direct current, East Africa also has a certain right to speak, so in the eyes of many people, there is no need to promote the ethereal alternating current.

After all, alternating current is still lying in Tesla's laboratory, and it will take some time to apply it, and East Africa is now full of direct current, so it will take a lot of effort to modify it.

However, Ernst must have vigorously promoted alternating current in East Africa, which was the experience of previous lives, especially the experience given to him by the Far Eastern Empire.

As mentioned before, the characteristics of alternating current are that it is suitable for long-distance transmission, and that it has low requirements for components.

Both of these points are very important for East Africa, which is so vast that any railway can easily reach thousands of kilometers, which is equivalent to the amount of the whole country in a year.

This vast territory also means that East Africa has a need for long-distance power transmission, and now people's solution to power supply is to build more power plants nearby, which is too costly.

As for the transmission market, it is not very vast, but Ernst knows that this is only for the moment, just like the West-East Power Transmission Project of the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life.

There is also such a demand in East Africa in the future, one is that the most hydropower-rich region in East Africa is at the intersection of the Congo Basin in the west and the central plateau such as the Katanga Plateau.

And if East Africa is to develop nuclear power in the future, the first choice will definitely be in Southwest Africa, which is a vast and sparsely populated region.

Not to mention these, just talking about thermal power, East Africa's coal resources are mainly distributed in the south, so the future distribution of power in East Africa must be uneven, and the demand for power transmission in East Africa is very broad.

Of course, East Africa can also learn from Europe in the past life to generate electricity through oil and natural gas, but this is mainly implemented in the eastern region, and oil is a resource that generally needs to be imported, and East Africa's oil reserves are not yet extravagant enough to be used to generate electricity.

In terms of component production, the parts processing in East Africa is not as good as other countries in the world, of course, this other mainly refers to several top powers, so it can lower the standard of components, which is beneficial to the current East African industry.

And alternating current is a new track, in the previous life AC energy dominated the world, proving its superiority, anyway, before Ernst crossed, AC still suppressed direct current, and now it is only the 19th century, so the choice of AC route for at least 100 years does not need to consider other issues.

Of course, the voltage in East Africa will also change, but in terms of cost, it is an indisputable fact that the power supply standard of 220V is definitely more advanced than that of 110V. The 110V power supply line should supply the same amount of power to the 220V line, the wire should be thick, and the electrical appliances of the same wattage should be larger than the volume of 220V.

There will certainly be some costs to be sacrificed in the early stage of changing the standard in East Africa, but it is not worth mentioning compared to the costs saved in the later stage.

Because the current electricity market in the world is still very small, in fact, the United States in the previous life also considered switching to 220 volts, but at that time 110 volts had been basically popularized, if forcibly changed, a large number of active electrical appliances and equipment will be eliminated, resulting in great waste, and the cost is extremely high, that really can not be easily changed, and now East Africa has no such concerns.

In fact, in the final analysis, capital still considers the issue of interests, and alternating current can save a lot of costs in the current era, which is the most important thing for capital.

What's more, compared with the direct current that is easy to lose in the transmission process, the user experience of alternating current is stronger than that of direct current, and the direct current will cause the farther away from the power plant and the darker the bulb will be, while the alternating current is easy to boost, so the power supply is more stable.

As for the promotion of alternating current in the future, there is a Heixingen company, which is a good solution to this problem, and the successful commercial use of alternating current in Europe in the previous life is because the German AEG company, which was in a monopoly position in Europe at that time, dominated, and now Heixingen power company can play the same role.

This is also a great benefit for European countries, and the amount of copper saved each year after using alternating current is enough to pay for itself.

At present, the wire rod is mainly copper, and the copper in Europe is not very abundant compared to East Africa and the United States, so it is important for Europe to save it.

Moreover, the low quality and technical requirements of AC for components have already determined its market advantage over DC.

(End of chapter)