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> and an efficient way to transport power from a very sunny place to another location where the loads are The point of the article is to make synthetic hydroca
by worik 4y ago
> and an efficient way to transport power from a very sunny place to another location where the loads are
The point of the article is to make synthetic hydrocarbons, so no, do not need HVDC so much.
- walrus01 4y agoMy point was that maybe we should transport the electricity to where it needs to be used over high voltage long distance lines, rather than running an artificial hydrocarbon fuel generation process, storing it in tanks or pipelines, and then sending it to where it needs to be used, and feeding it into combustion engines.
- tomxor 4y agoThe article also pointed out that even with future cost reduction from scale etc, some things just don't work well running off electricity, the energy density of hydrocarbons is very hard to beat unless you go nuclear... and for things like planes, baring any massive technological breakthroughs, it's probably gona have to be hydrocarbons for the foreseeable future... so synthesising those fuels by short circuiting the carbon cycle in a post "dig unreplenishable shit up from the ground" era, is pretty attractive.