[Milsurplus] DC vs AC for power distribution

[Peter Gottlieb]

Insufficient for what?  Hands-on, tinkering, playing with ideas, a lot of what 
we know came from there.  To do the best with something that is known, that's 
where engineering comes in.  This is much more so in electronics, perhaps, than 
physics.

These days theory and science hardly matter at times, though, especially when 
what you are trying to say may go against some big money interests.



On 5/1/2012 10:09 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> There is certainly something to be said for 'hands on' experience, but IMO
> that alone is insufficient.
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> -John
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>> At 4:01 PM -0700 5/1/12, J. Forster wrote:
>>> In my view, real engineering is based on understanding the fundamentals
>>> of
>>> physics and applying them. There is a difference between engineering and
>>> 'cut and try' tinkering.
>> I suspect it could be argued that tinkerers can often have a better
>> intuitive understanding of something and how it works under unusual
>> conditions or outside of spec than an engineer might have.
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