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To: Ramius

One of the difficulties of electrical generation is that it needs to be fairly close to the consumer.

We run HV transmission lines for hundreds of miles for cost effective generation to consumer.

Long distance transmission is terribly inefficient

A few percentage points of loss is terribly inefficient?

57 posted on 04/11/2012 1:59:20 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)

To: thackney

I thought the loss on long distance high voltage lines was more on the order of 10 or 20%. Is that wrong?

58 posted on 04/11/2012 3:55:31 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)

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