Re: Brains? How About Elininating Line Loss?
Author: BOB2
Date: 06-03-2014 - 16:35
Since about 60% of all power generated, regardless of generation source, is lost in transmission due to resistance, how about replacing large transmission towers with ultra cooled buried electrical "pipes".
At extremely cold temperatures (liquid Nitrogen cold)line loss due to resistance goes to almost zero. So it has been proposed that we replace high tension transmission with ultra cooled transmission lines. It's significantly more expensive to build, but has a very significant long term pay off.
No need to stop double tracking, or to believe in imaginary fringe conspiracies, instead maybe we just need to use some good old fashioned science and technology to solve our problems.