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Isn't the HVDC loss from the center of the country to either coast going to be under 10%? Balancing that against the maintenance and construction challenges of
by rootusrootus 3y ago
Isn't the HVDC loss from the center of the country to either coast going to be under 10%? Balancing that against the maintenance and construction challenges of offshore wind, is it really better to construct offshore projects just to save a few percent?
- bobthepanda 3y agoWhat is the cost and time of land acquisition and environmental review? There are NIMBYs for offshore, but land transmission lines go through people’s literal backyards and over longer distances.
- fbdab103 3y agoTheoretically, yes, but practically there is a whole lot of nothing in the majority of the Western US.
- bobthepanda 3y agoRight, which why the transmission lines have to go from the empty place to population centers. Eventually they go through populated areas.