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| Subject: | [TowerTalk] DC very high voltage transmission lines |
| From: | Nick Pair <daweezil2003@yahoo.com> |
| Date: | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:28:50 -0700 (PDT) |
| List-post: | <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> |
The reason for DC over AC is lower transmission losses. They have experimented
with lines up to 1 million volts in the U.S. and we do have some lines running
DC now in the states.You can blaim Thomas Edison for all our AC troubles, Tesla
had it right.
Nick
WB7PEK
(located 3 miles from a nuclear power plant, now decomissioned)
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