http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Peter Laws <plaws@plaws.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 23:05, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> > Did anyone notice that he said it was a DC line being planned?
>
>
> I did. Haven't read much of this but assume Mr Edison is laughing
> somewhere and Mr Tesla is rolling his eyes.
>
> Don't get how these are more efficient though, since surely there
> would be loss when the AC gets rectified at one end and loss when the
> resulting DC gets chopped into AC for transformation at the other.
> But it's apparently the new big thing.
>
>
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