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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
Find me a comparable DC link (5GW * 100, 3000k+ miles). To overcome I^2 losses, a DC system would need an even higher voltage, and we're already talking about a 1000kv AC system.
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
If it's not economically or practically feasible, then no, the technology doesn't exist.
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
I'm out by two orders of magnitude on the amount of desert solar needed to power the UK. It's more like 13000 sq km, comprising approx. 7e9 solar panels. If they weigh 30kg each, and two-trailer road trains are used to transport t
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
>The technology now exists to theoretically cover many hundreds of square km of Libya in photovoltaics and take the electricty to Europe It really doesn't. I'm a huge fan of back-of-the-envelope maths, and this idea raises some
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
Yes. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bbc%20news%20dying%20w...
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
>You did save the NHS. Barely. I have a very different opinion. I believe that, like many other aspects of life and culture, our response to Covid ripped open any cracks and accelerated ongoing problems. I think we are currently seeing a
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
>it sounds like a very strange decision to me. I suppose it could have been a form of pre-emptive triage to avoid hospital overload? Yes, it is very strange. In March 2020, we were promised a global pandemic the like of which had never b
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
No, I'm saying that the NHS stopped treating other conditions. Whether it was actually overloaded from March 2020 onwards is another question - the publicly-available patient data shows that the total patient occupancy was at about 7
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by katkatkatkatket 4y ago
Instead what happened (at least where I live - UK), is that hospitals stopped treating many other conditions for ~2 years, creating a huge patient backlog, and set "Covid Safety" policies that continue to make diagnosis and treatm