>From Michel: > According to that paper, electricity can be transported over very long > distances (from North Africa to all of Europe in their project) with > only minor losses (15%) using HVDC power lines. > > If that's true, it seems to me that with such a HVDC grid, renewable > energy doesn't have to be stored any more, apart from mobile > applications of course. > > An additional advantage of DC occurs to me, you no longer need an > expensive inverter to push your home grown power into the grid, a > simple boost converter does the trick! > > Who was the idiot who invented AC power transmission in the first place? > ;-) > > Michel
"Deal Michael," "Thank, you for your vote of confidence!" "I think I'll go out and demo the electrocution of a few more dogs using some more of that cursed AC current crap." "Your most humble servant" "T. Edison" Intriguing. Setting my low-brow dramatics aside, I wonder how expensive such a grid would cost to build. I also wonder what's the status of my own country's efforts to upgrade our antiquated grid. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
