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Electricity can be moved long distances over wires.
by haiku2077 1y ago
Electricity can be moved long distances over wires.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoFor some definition of "long distances" sure. At a certain point it basically becomes more economical to charge batteries and ship them by truck than to build wires :/
- bjourne 1y agoHVDC losses are roughly 3.5% per 1000 km.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoI think referring to the costs of 1 - 3 million per GW-mile.
- bityard 1y agoEasy to say, hard to do. The cost per mile rises non-linearly.
- CyberDildonics 1y agoNo it doesn't.
- reverendjames 1y agoThat's not correct. It's basically cost per distance, unless you're talking huge power over huge distances.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoTrue, but the quote was actually in a paragraph about self-driving cars.