Nick Arnett wrote: > > And this page -- > http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/wind_power/index.html -- says > a multi-billion-dollar transmission upgrade is necessary to get the > electricity from the best locations to the Southern California cities. > It's hard to believe that the USA is not totally covered with transmission lines. Brazil, about the size of the connected component of the USA + 1/2 Alaska, is almost entirely connected (such that a pane in a transmission line 5000 km away causes a blackout here... or so they say).
BTW, recently ethanol replaced hydro as the 2nd most important energy source here. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
