Kicking Up Your Kinetic Energy

Tom's latest eBook has been released on Amazon: "The 7 Myths of IT Integrations". Tom is also a Program Director for a large Midwest corporation and has been an adjunct faculty member at Walsh College. He has managed global web initiatives, data center moves and large multi-million dollar programs.

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Our world lives off energy. Practically everything we interact with throughout our day either consumes electricity or was made with electricity. Power plants are built all across the world to generate a tremendous amount of power to ensure that the right amount of voltage makes it to the final destination.

Did you know that the power that enters your home is less than the amount of power that left the power plant? The power company knows that there will be leakage along the way--leakage that will work to sabotage the amount of energy in the system.

People are the same way, but they need a different type of energy. This type of energy can power people but also experiences a similar type of leakage. The power industry and project managers both have to compensate for the same phenomenon: resistance. But there is a way to overcome it…

High-Voltage and Low-Voltage
Power, as you know, is generated by coal-, water- or nuclear-powered generators. The electricity that is produced is distributed throughout the country across the “power grid”, a complex web of overhead cables that deliver electricity to cities and to remote farms.

The key, though, is that those overhead power cables are made from both aluminum and steel (mostly aluminum). The properties of the metal are such that it isn’t a perfect conductor of electricity, which encounters …

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