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Supposedly you went to business school then? :-) HVDC has losses at about 3% per 1000km, from Saudi Arabia to the center of Europe is less than 5000 km as the
by jankeymeulen 8y ago
Supposedly you went to business school then? :-)
HVDC has losses at about 3% per 1000km, from Saudi Arabia to the center of Europe is less than 5000 km as the crow flies. Doesn't seem too bad to me.
- Baeocystin 8y agoOut of curiosity, I googled current HVDC lines, and was surprised at how rapidly it has started to replace HVAC for long-distance transmission. It now strikes me that getting a line from the peninsula to europe will be more of a political effort than a technical one, which is not the conclusion I was initially expecting.
- mrguyorama 8y agoI thought the losses were nonlinear and complex? IE 10,000km is not 30% loss
- fizx 8y agoActually, you should do better than 30% loss due to the non-linearity: 1 - 0.97**10 => 0.2625758731050719