In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:45:30 -0500: Hi, [snip] >States with significant wind resources are thousands of miles away, >and you cannot transmit electricity that far. Georgia has no >significant renewable energy resources. > >It is a shame you cannot transmit electricity 2000 miles because if >you could, we could establish a massive solar thermal plant in a 100 >square mile area of the Southwest desert, and generate all the >electricity we now consume. Or we could do the same trick with wind >farms in North Dakota. Alas, it is impossible. Someday high >temperature superconducting wires or hydrogen pipelines may allow >electricity to be transmitted across the continent. [snip] Georgia also has it's own renewable resource just off the coast, in the form of the Gulf Stream.
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
