Bob, One high priority reason we have AC transmission is due the difficulties sending DC over long distances. It is the old Edison Tesla war brought to the 21st century. Fortunately, solar is fairly abundant all over.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Somebody has to pay for road repairs. > > Pipelines are a different issue. > > Rather than spending $billons of dollars on a pipeline monument to the > past, it is better to make that same investment into electrical > transmission lines for now and the future instead. > > The only thing holding back a near infinite supply of FREE renewable > energy is the lack of the long haul transmission lines to get the solar > and wind energy from where it is abundant (the plains) to where it is > needed. Pipelines do the same thing for oil but are an ultimate dead-end. > > Anyone want to invest in finding a way to send copper conductors through > old pipelines to convert obsolete pipelines to underground DC transmission > lines? > > Bob, Wb4aPR > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140625/046ce47f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
