There is no need for transmission lines. Power can just be provided remotely via satellite or something. Just Zoom it in! All we need to do is install more electrical outlets and those can be easily installed at gas stations and other such places.
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50,000,000 miles?
It’s only 280,000 miles to the MOON!.............
That’s just one country.
Multiply by 200 countries, assuming each one of them were as advanced as the West and you need probably about 5 billion new lines or so.
The real intent isn’t to move from gas to electricity; It’s to get rid of personal automobiles period.
Travel will be for the elite, not the commoners.
All part of the deindustrialization plan.
Bkmk
That’s a lot of copper mining. Hoard your pennies!
I hope China will give us the materials we need for this!
I say 51 million miles. That’s a lotta copper. Start mining the planet. (From what I read, recycled copper cannot be used in new wire. Could be wrong about that.)
Buy copper futures....
Well, if Nikola Tesla had his way, that's exactly what we'd have.
BFL
“There is no need for transmission lines. Power can just be provided remotely via satellite or something.”
Well, Tesla (the scientist, not the car company) figured out wireless transmission of electricity over a hundred years ago. We could just do that and everyone could just charge their cars on the go with a simple antenna.
But then the power companies would have no way to meter usage and charge people for it, so we would have to turn power generation over to a government agency and make it a taxpayer-funded public service.
50 million miles of new power lines for birds to sit on ?
...and you know the enviro-weenies will challenge that, and tie it up in courts for YEARS - probably preventing a rational, orderly, and planned program until it’s too late.
Time to invest in copper!
I’m just going to put a cow fart collector on my recliner.
Unlimited Methane!!!!
Leftists are famous for passing laws that are impossible to implement. They are idiots. The more college they attend the stupider they get
I wish people would open their brains (they deny what they actually see) and consider TRUE science and the logistics of energizing and caring for hundreds of millions of people.
WE have been remiss in not really learning about some of the people we have voted into power (don't get me started on the stolen election), and we are now suffering greatly for our laziness.
I'm in Pennsylvania and it is an embarrassment grande knowing that out of our Commonwealth came Richard Levine and Lurch.
I deeply admire your engineering prowess. Even with my mechanical engineering degree and career in power, I would never have conceived of your brilliant solutions.
Therefore, I am going to nominate you for the ASME’s George Westinghouse Medal for “Eminent achievement or distinguished service in the power field of mechanical engineering.” You should are a shoo-in.