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>"It does not, in fact, matter." What's your basis for this? Real-world power grids don't seem to be designed around transmission loss being a non-issue so lon
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
>"It does not, in fact, matter."
What's your basis for this? Real-world power grids don't seem to be designed around transmission loss being a non-issue so long as they just 'generate more power' at the source.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoI think most real world grids are (or at least were) actually designed like this. Getting coal from a mine to a power station is a big task, so some grids are literally built around the locations of the coal. Hydro and nuclear have similar location needs. This has changed more recently with gas and renewables where as they get cheaper other factors start to dominate, but the grid was not originally set up for that kind of distributed load and needed some tweaks to adjust I believe.
- ncmncm 4y agoPower at the source has never been as cheap as solar, and has always consumed extra operating expense to generate. Solar does not cost more each day it produces; you put up more panels and you get more power, day after day.