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Re:North American versus European distribution systems (2011) by the_mitsuhiko on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:08AM (#20799549)
Maybe it's my central European perspective that clouds this but the standard setup in Germany/Austria/Switzerland and Northern Italy is three phase power to your house.
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Re:North American versus European distribution systems (2011) by krzyk on Monday August 26, 2019 @09:47AM (#20799830)
Yes, same in Poland, 3 phases is standard (and houses from 70-ties also have 3 phases, not sure if they needed to pay extra for that or not).

And we don't do electric heating.

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Re:North American versus European distribution systems (2011) by mamon on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:03AM (#20799920)
We do not do electric heating because that would be riddiculously expensive. Most single-family homes still use coal, some newer ones use natural gas.
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Re:North American versus European distribution systems (2011) by blattimwind on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:21AM (#20800067)
For me, as a homeshop owner, it's really nice, because I can run pretty much any workshop/industry-grade equipment on standard CEE outlets. And for my own contraptions I have an endless supply of efficient, low cost, low vibration/noise, three phase motors.

Meanwhile American homeshops cannot use high grade equipment or have to use VFDs on each machine or rotary converters to create three phases.

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