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Just a quick note. My thanks to the folks (even Richard!) that have found errors, especially for the last couple of chapters. I have gone through and updated all 30 Chapters with edits, and uploaded them all. If I did NOT change the wording, it's because conversational English is not always proper English. And Mid-West American English is a far cry from British English. I've also updated the full novel on Bookapy.
Other than changing word order, putting the right woman in bed with Cal, the only thing that I truly changed was to add two words. 'portions of' - so now President Reagan asks Congress to repeal portions of the act, not the whole thing.
They (Congress) still don't do it, but hey, that's covered in Book Two.
Two things: I put A True History Book One on Bookapy. Yes, it's complete and totally free here.
And second - cubital tunnel means that I pretty much can't use the ring and little finger on my left hand to touch type. The ulnar nerve is getting pinched, so I have two fingers that are acting a lot like a claw now, not fingers. I go to the doctor next week about it, now that we're basically done with Covid. I've been 10 finger touch typing since I was about 9, when I taught myself how to do it. So mistakes on things like my blog are due to that, because it doesn't have an edit button.
Book two will be out ... as quickly as I can get it out.
End the Fighting. Destroy the (bad) drugs. Live in Peace.
Yes, there's a cliffhanger (of sorts), but no, it's not much of one. Or is it? Maybe it's more like a mystery of historical (hysterical?) proportions.
Either way, it's summer, which is our busy season at work, and just for fun, I have bone spurs on one foot that need to come off, and cubital tunnel that needs fixed, so I can use the ring and little finger (NOT Lord Baelish) on my left hand. This would have been resolved months ago, but ... Covid.
Have fun and try to be patient. In the meantime ...
End the fighting. Destroy the (bad) Drugs. Line in Peace.
TL:DR - Cal is correct about electricity transmission because Carl did his research before writing.
Since this has come up in both comments and multiple emails from readers, I thought it deserved a blog entry. What I mention in A True History regarding power distribution is (you'll pardon the pun) the current state of technology. As in, real world Earth of 2020, not Cal's world of 1984. (It WAS possible in 1984, just more expensive than it is now.)
HVDC and HVAC actually complement each other. You generate HVAC, and if the distance is less than 400 miles, simply send it. If the distance is MORE than 400 miles, it's cheaper to convert the HVAC to HVDC and send it that way, then convert back to HVAC at the receiving end. You can also generate 50 HZ HVAC at one end, convert it to DC, and when you bring it back to AC, you can make it 60HZ instead.
There are now multiple HVDC lines running more than 1,000 miles long around the world, allowing power to go where it was not possible or cost effective to do so before. Google HVDC vs HVAC. Cal is correct - and now we literally COULD power the US from wind turbines in Kansas. (Also, offshore power is limited to about 20 miles with HVAC - HVDC doesn't have that limitation.)
Oh, and there's no skin effect with HVDC, like there is with HVAC, and massively decreased corona losses.
Before you complain about the treatment of the lawyer (other than the sharks won't eat him and snakes don't bite him due to professional courtesy) - there's backstory that comes up in Book Two to explain it. Remember, I set up the whole child molesting thing 20 chapters BEFORE I revealed it.
Other than that, the cliffhanger at the end of this chapter is relatively mild.
I'm writing Chapter 37 of Book Two. After Friday mornings post of Chapter 30, I plan to June and July to finish writing Book Two. There won't be 'time skips' in Book Two, but there will be times when a paragraph may cover an entire week or more, simply because there's not much going on that needs to be covered in quite as much detail. (Something along the line of ... classes in February went pretty much as we all expected.)
Supposed to be in the mid-90's this week. Yay... :)
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