Thus,
he came into conflict
with Thomas Alva Edison,
an advocate of direct
current Westinghouse
was convinced that the
technology of alternating
current was the key to
the 
electrical 
future He founded the famous
Company named after him
and enlisted the services
of 
Nicola 
Tesla 
and
other inventors in the
development of alternating
current 
motors 
and
apparatus 
for 
the
transmission 
of 
high
tension current, pioneering
in large scale lighting not mean that the average power consumed is zero and
that there is no dissipation of electrical energy