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P.O. Box 190, Vienna, GA 31092
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The Miracle of Electricity
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The younger generation of today may take
electricity for granted. When this miracle discovery
was first witnessed in homes back in the ’30s and ’40s, its sole purpose
was to produce light through a bulb.
Today, electricity powers
virtually everything in our
homes and we are almost helpless
without it. Just flip a switch or press the “on”
button, and at 186,000 miles per hour, electricity
travels through the circuits of our appliances
or electronic equipment.
A typical home served by Middle Georgia EMC
averages 24,000 kilowatt-hours (kwh) per year of
electricity usage, and our largest residential user
is 60,000 kwh per year. This has certainly grown
from just a few hundred kwh used in 1941 after
we energized some of our first distribution lines.
Home usage advanced
from the light bulb
to refrigeration, electric ranges, heating
and cooling, water pumps, and now to
swimming pools and electronics. Usage
is in greater demand but with more efficient
results.
If you were to survey all the engineers
and scientists in the world to list the best discoveries
of all time, electricity would probably
make the top of most of their lists.
Whether it is alternating current in our homes
or direct current in our automobiles,
we basically cannot live without
it. To quote someone from the
younger generation, “If we didn’t
have electricity, we
would have to watch
television by candlelight.”
Middle Georgia EMC
P.O. Box 190, Vienna, GA 31092
912.268.2671
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