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As the smoke cleared, Jeff Fink <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > That's a whole lot of expensive cooling (huge operating costs). > > If we can do all of these things for a buck a KWH, I'd say we were > doing good. My electric bill is already over $100 /mo. I can't afford > to pay a thousand! Can you? > > Jeff Ekonomies of skale, fella -- ekonomis of skale (not to mention socialist cost-accounting...) But for that matter: they apparently have working systems already operational in California and Chicago (and maybe elsewhere); so I wonder what the real-world costs of superconducting DC actually are now? In any case: cost/benefit analyses have to be done. And AFAIC, I don't see why transmission of energy that wouldn't otherwise be utilized can't be done as an interim, stop-gap measure -- and the system progressively made more efficient, as teknology advances and resources are made available. And that's only part of the equation, of course. But I wonder what the numbers actually are/would be. - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn2jCAACgkQXo3EtEYbt3HcMQCgl7YDE4Y2GjWTtwcIltE9QHUN ryUAoONdtj35e9fSwtW5S1VcUsq2ntG2 =Kq09 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
