Interesting oldspark I have learned something new today! Thanks for the link pretty interesting!
Ray
Interesting oldspark I have learned something new today! Thanks for the link pretty interesting!
C'mon people! Let's get excited to build the new infrastructure so the wealthy don't have to pay for it themselves. It worked for the railroad tycoons, why not our future Wind Lords?
When energy is cheap and plentiful again we could all go back to heating our houses with the windows open and leaving our lights on all the time.
MacMaine it's impractical to send DC great distances because it can't be transformed like AC this is why the transmission lines are AC. Edison thought DC was the way to go and why he failed and Tesla proved him wrong. The idea is you crank up the voltageto the transmission lines and this reduces the current so you can run small diameter wire. When this high voltage gets to a substation it is transformed to a various voltages and sent to the street to be used by home and industry.
Ray
Peanuts. Absolute peanuts if you count what we're already spending. Its one of those thing that looks like a lot of money until you realize how much you're wasting on inefficiencies. It could do for American industry the same thing that cheap NG is already doing.
Oldspark posted this link which made me rethink what I thought I knew http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current .. Even an old dog can learn new tricks Tesla is my inventor hero it is amazing how far ahead of his time he was!Thanks Raybonz I know there is controversy on this.
I know I know There was a huge pissing match between Edison and Tesla
Interesting that this company wants to build a DC line, Ray you certainly have the background to question the practicalities of this method.
This company must know about losses, cost etc.
Canadians want to ship all sorts of things to our markets, if it is not expensive Tar Sands oil in the west it is cheap Hydro electrons in the east!
A friend of my actually replaced a few amateur bearings on some of those , a few years back. Lots of potato farms he said.seems like a bunch are going up in Maine. Mars Hill has quite a few.
Canadians want to ship all sorts of things to our markets, if it is not expensive Tar Sands oil in the west it is cheap Hydro electrons in the east!
I love it when an evil plan comes together.No actually we want to keep it all for ourselves, but the Free Trade Agreement states that we can't hold it until it is the last oil, and water left in NA!
Pinky: What we gonna do tonight Brain? Nark!I love it when an evil plan comes together.
Mwahahahha!
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