[sam_paine]

That was just for the transmission line, mind you, not anything to do with a generating plant. I can imagine the ruckus that would cause.

In Ft Worth and Austin, and likely many, many places...the cities have closed downtown generation plants that have been there for decades instead of refurb and modernizing them, and instead, pay higher rates and add more pollution for transmission losses....oh....but the environmentalists think they are so brilliant to have closed down those "eyesores."

Generate at the load! Generate at the damn load!

BTW, do you guys know each other? Never thought I'd see a conversation between a Chimera and the Dungeon Master!

[chimera]

Certainly makes sense to minimize losses by keeping transmission distances to a minimum. But politically it is unpopular because of the NIMBY syndrome. Trouble is, beyond a certain distance, transmission becomes uneconomical. Too many people have the idea that electricity generated in WA state can be sent down to Key West with no problem. When I worked in the power dispatching center of a local transmission company we only wheeled power on a regional basis. There was just no easy way to access more distant sources, aside from being uneconomical.

Hey, I'll talk to just about anybody (except Bellerophon, who'd probably try to kill me)...

[DungeonMaster]

BTW, do you guys know each other? Never thought I'd see a conversation between a Chimera and the Dungeon Master!

LOL Actually DMs get way too involved with their monsters and take it out on the players.