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It might be technically possible. The most ambitious project along those lines I’ve heard of is proposed from northern Australia (with lots of room for solar pa
by rgmerk 4y ago
It might be technically possible. The most ambitious project along those lines I’ve heard of is proposed from northern Australia (with lots of room for solar panels) to Singapore (which does not have a lot of room for anything). 5,000 km of HVDC undersea cable!
Not guaranteed to get off the ground, but I haven’t heard any serious reservations about the technical feasibility.
- depereo 4y agoThat project recently collapsed.
- rgmerk 4y ago"Collapsed" is oversimplifying the situation. The project was a joint venture between a multibillionaire mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest and the Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes. For whatever reason Forrest decided that other renewable energy ventures were a better bet and stopped funding the project. Despite it entering administration, Cannon-Brookes gave it another $65 million to continue operations. https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/administrators-kick-off-sale-process-for-sun-cable.html https://www.businessnewsaustralia.com/articles/administrator... As such, I don't think this one is quite dead yet.
- defrost 4y agoThe geophysics are as sketchy as AF. There was a certain amount of risk with the failure mode of a single deep cable etc. That was amplified beyond acceptable by the route which crossed multiple fault lines in a heavily volcanic region with many tectonic issues. With a tangential throw to the true father (IMHO) of evolution . . . [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line