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With electricity generation, thinking like a regular industry would also be very inefficient. It's well known that there's a lot of wasted energy in the electr
by vmarsy 10y ago
With electricity generation, thinking like a regular industry would also be very inefficient. It's well known that there's a lot of wasted energy in the electrical lines to transport the electricity from the centralized plant to the end users, even with crazy high voltage aiming at reducing losses.
An optimal setup would probably be a not-too-fine-grain decentralized setup
- AstralStorm 10y agoNot much loss in high voltage lines and required transformers. (Use Ohm's law.) Much less than inefficiencies inherent in tiny power plants, which can rob you of more than half power in the fuel of it were burnt in an efficient plant. (Cooling on a small scale is especially hard.) Similarly with wind turbines, less with solar. These losses are accounted for and are a reason (other than problems building really massive plants) why there are more than one in every country.