[AR] Re: extreme grid interconnection
- From: Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 05:46:59 -0400
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:54:22AM -0400, Bill Claybaugh wrote:
>Again, the point is that such solutions are lower cost and
>incremental to existing economic needs: as Keith has observed, power
>loss in existing cable is expensive; which is why transmission
>companies are experimenting with superconducting cable to replace
>existing cable.
When one considers the practicality of running power cables cooled by
liquid nitrogen under thousands of miles of ocean, solar power
satellites start to seem like a reasonable project.
The vulnerability of a worldwide power grid to hostile acts would also
be most extreme. The Ukraine situation offers but a faint hint of the
opportunities for extortion that would arise from being in a position
to cut the world's electrical throat.
--
Norman Yarvin http://yarchive.net/blog
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