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Fixing a 3000 km long refrigerator at depth of 4 km will be an interesting challenge.

• Retric 10y ago
  Cables are generally raised to the surface to repair. Anyway, it's only 50 miles from Russia to Alasca making this a relatively simple connection. Hawaii would be hard to justify unless it's really cheap. However grid storage is generally fairly cheap. Just going east to west across Eurasia also gives very good solar coverage.
  • ptaipale 10y ago
    Yes, but adding refrigeration to a cable will make it firstly about thousand times more likely to need a repair, and when repairing, rather a lot less bendable and more fragile, thus making it also more difficult to repair. There are also -- of course -- a lot of political problems with the idea of a a global electric grid. Like, what happens to your electrical system in case of an international crisis. Russia has used its gas supplies for political pressure in Europe, and other nations may do the same with electricity.