On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:21:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From an Op-Ed article in today's NY Times: > > "the idea of creating large national markets to buy and sell electricity > makes more sense as economic theory than as physics, because it consumes power to > transmit power. 'It's only efficient to transmit electricity for a few hundred > miles at most,' says Dr. Richard Rosen, a physicist at the Tellus > Institute, a nonprofit research group. "
http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/html/pninter.html "Celilo-Sylmar, 800-kV d-c Transmission Line This line runs about 845 miles from the Celilo Converter Station, the northern d-c terminal of the NW-SW Intertie on the Columbia River near The Dalles, Oregon, via Nevada to the Sylmar Station. This bipolar overhead transmission line, with an operating voltage of 800 kV (�400 kV) and a power rating of 1,440 megawatts (MW), was constructed and placed in service in 1970." Does 845 miles qualify as "a few hundred"? -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
