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Electricity is also much easier to transport over long distances, using high voltage DC lines, than it is to transport oil or gas via pipeline or truck.

• barney54 7y ago
  And oil is much easier to transport over really long distances on tanker ships.
  • chongli 7y ago
    Only if you neglect the huge externalities of tanker ships, with the extremely dirty fuels they burn and the occasional catastrophic spills.
  • wilg 7y ago
    If you can have batteries with higher energy density than oil, why not fill up a ship with batteries?
    • rjplatte 7y ago
      Because A/C lines are more efficient than either oil or batteries.
      • wilg 7y ago
        Not over ocean distances though?
  • 8note 7y ago
    and can then be burned to make electricity
    • ricardobeat 7y ago
      Batteries will also burn under the right conditions!