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To: Uncledave

How are they going to get the electricity onshore?


6 posted on 09/19/2006 8:57:09 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62
How are they going to get the electricity onshore?

FedEx

8 posted on 09/19/2006 8:58:52 AM PDT by Lekker 1 (("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
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To: Moonman62

With a long undersea cable


11 posted on 09/19/2006 8:59:26 AM PDT by Uncledave
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I dunno - what is the going rate for underwater power lines, 50 to 150 kM long?

New Zealand - North and South islands, are tied together with a large DC power cable so it has been done.
14 posted on 09/19/2006 9:02:30 AM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: Moonman62
How are they going to get the electricity onshore?

A very long extension cord.

26 posted on 09/19/2006 9:12:49 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: Moonman62
How are they going to get the electricity onshore?

Big fat underwater cables connected to a substation in the the Hyannis front yard of a big fat guy I know.

48 posted on 09/19/2006 11:20:13 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (What does it matter if we’re all dead, as long as the French respect us.)
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To: Moonman62
How are they going to get the electricity onshore?

Tugboats.

50 posted on 09/19/2006 11:26:57 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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