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As the smoke cleared, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> mounted the barricade and roared out: > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:12 AM, grok <g...@resist.ca> wrote: > > > What _is_ the present efficiency of coal/hydro/nuclear power that is > > now being delivered by hi-tension towers, BTW..? > > About 92%: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission > > Terry Which is impressive. But that's just the transmission part -- not the generation part. That URL links to this one too: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_grid> And so this all begs the question, again: if transmission efficiencies are so high, and the gains and reliability, etc. such no-brainers, what real obstacles lie in the way of Buckminster Fuller's (et al.) dream of a world-wide electrical grid backbone..? Heck -- they are indeed planning to put massed banx of solar arrays in the Sahara, and ship the power to Europa. - -- 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) iEYEARECAAYFAkn93mgACgkQXo3EtEYbt3FDOgCgj+xoEGn9NL/Iv9pbQgfE/Acd 0AcAoMkk+5tY4WyroGdv4EF6jUccv7j/ =wCrq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
