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  2. Power factor - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the load power factor were as low as 0.7, the apparent power would be 1.4 times the real power used by the load. Line current in the circuit would also be 1.4 times the current required at 1.0 power factor, so the losses in the circuit would be doubled (since they are proportional to the square of the current).

  3. Single-phase electric power - Wikipedia

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    Single phase power transmission took many years to develop. The earliest developments were based on the early alternator inventions of 19th century Parisian scientist Hippolyte Pixii, which were later expanded upon by Lord Kelvin and others in the 1880s. The first full AC power system, based on single phase alternating current, was created by ...

  4. Split-phase electric power - Wikipedia

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    Single-pole circuit breakers feed 120 V circuits from one of the 120 V buses within the panel, or two-pole circuit breakers feed 240-volt circuits from both buses. 120 V circuits are the most common, and used to power NEMA 1 and NEMA 5 outlets, and most residential and light commercial direct-wired lighting circuits.

  5. Electric heating - Wikipedia

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    An electric heater is an electrical device that converts an electric current into heat. [1] The heating element inside every electric heater is an electrical resistor , and works on the principle of Joule heating : an electric current passing through a resistor will convert that electrical energy into heat energy.

  6. Central heating - Wikipedia

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    Heater outputs are measured in kilowatts or BTUs per hour. For placement in a house, the heater, and the level of output required for the house, needs to be calculated. For placement in a house, the heater, and the level of output required for the house, needs to be calculated.

  7. Mains electricity - Wikipedia

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    Mains electricity or utility power, grid power, domestic power, and wall power, or, in some parts of Canada, hydro, is a general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply.

  8. Your Thanksgiving Turkey Will Be Cheaper This Year - AOL

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    Many ingredients, aside from the turkey, saw a decrease in pricing as well. Sweet potatoes, for instance, dropped by 26.2%, while the cost of 1-pound of frozen peas went down by about 8%. A 30 ...

  9. Electric power transmission - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 100 miles (160 km) span at 765 kV carrying 1000 MW of power can have losses of 0.5% to 1.1%. A 345 kV line carrying the same load across the same distance has losses of 4.2%. [ 25 ] For a given amount of power, a higher voltage reduces the current and thus the resistive losses .