abbot spitting nonsense about wind generated energy. This sort of biased outburst in not new; the bit below is lifted from wiki and it concerns Thomas Edison and his financial backers using a campaign of lies to discredit Teslas AC current. Edisons investors we hoping to roll over Tesla with their inefficient, costly and elitest DC system. Edisons publicity campaign Edison carried out a campaign to discourage the use [35] of alternating current, including spreading disinformation on fatal AC accidents, publicly electrocuting animals, and lobbying against the use of AC in state legislatures. Edison directed his technicians, primarily Arthur Kennelly and Harold P. Brown,[36] to preside over several AC-driven killings of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs but also unwanted cattle and horses. [37] Acting on these directives, they were to demonstrate to the press that alternating current was more dangerous than Edisons system of direct current.[38] He also tried to popularize the term for being electrocuted as being Westinghoused. Years after DC had lost the war of the currents, in 1903, his film crew made a movie of the electrocution with high voltage AC, supervised by Edison employees, of Topsy, a Coney Island circus elephant which had recently killed three men.[39] Edison opposed capital punishment, but his desire to disparage the use of alternating current led to the invention of the electric chair. Harold P. Brown, who was being secretly paid by Edison, built the first electric chair for the state of New York to promote the idea that alternating current was deadlier than DC.[40] But the punchline is this: Edison and his backers claimed AC power lines were a health hazard.
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