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How on earth would you import electricity to Japan? Honest question. String wires over the Korea Strait? Undersea cables? The shortest distance from Korea to
by lsaferite 10y ago
How on earth would you import electricity to Japan? Honest question.
String wires over the Korea Strait? Undersea cables?
The shortest distance from Korea to the Japanese island at the mid-point is 50km and from there to the mainland is even more (by eyeball).
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoThat's cakewalk. The NorNed 700 MW HVDC undersea cable, finished in 2008, is 580 km. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorNed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorNed Edit: the engineering would be relatively easy, but the politics are the problem.
- lsaferite 10y agoWow, that's impressive. ~450kV is hard to imagine.