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What if the grid connects (residential and commercial) across time zones, one generating for the next with no need of storage devices?

• teraflop 10y ago
  Maybe if we had room-temperature superconductors. For now, transporting huge amounts of electric power across many thousands of miles is very, very inefficient.
  • g8oz 10y ago
    HVDC lines work very well even if they are quite expensive.