On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 4:12:53 PM UTC-7, Chrysi Cat wrote:
> On 4/19/2021 2:54 PM, edstas...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> WolfBear
> >>
> >> More First World outlets in the Third World
> >
> > I thought this thread was going to be about electric outlets…
> >
> > https://i1.wp.com/wheelchairtravel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/faq-international-travel-power-wheelchair-outlet-types.jpg?resize=1000%2C776&ssl=1
> >
> > And why AREN’T they standardized? I blame the Wall Street
> > electric outlet adapter consortium, callously screwing over
> > the People to line their greedy pockets!
> >
> If you're being serious, they aren't standardised because the transition
> to AC power happened independently, with around 20 centres of
> innovation. The last time that it would have been moderately simple to
> standardise power generation would have been, likely, before World War
> II (or at best just after), and at those points neither the Americans
> nor the Soviets (nor before the war the UK or the Germans) would have
> willingly switched over to their competition's system.
>
> At THIS point?
>
> Well, on the bright side, fewer devices run on an integral AC cord every
> year, so it might make some sense to just have EVERY device have a port
> for a detachable power cable and either take in DC via external inverter
> or be built for all voltages, all frequencies, all amperages.
>
> What makes no sense, however, is choosing either the European or the US
> standard (probably the European, as it's inherently safer) and turning
> off the electricity to every building outside its current service area
> until the outlets are converted to the new standard. Not to mention the
> number of new power cords you'd need to send out to the owners of
> *massive* numbers of electrical devices that could no longer draw power
> with the cords they were shipped from the factory with.
>
> And that's just for devices that _do_ have a cord that can be detached
> easily. Toasters and other devices with an integral cord would have to
> be either rewired or scrapped.
>
> OBWI of "someone is willing to force this anyway, probably right around
> 1980"--I have no clue what the result would be.
>
> --
> Chrysi Cat
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Very interesting, but back to my question right now, please! ;)