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To: Casaubon who wrote (7191)	3/25/2003 12:36:13 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (3) of 8393

I don't see the concept as seriously flawed. There are some pretty heavy thinkers that looked at the concept. Chauncey Starr is founder and president emeritus of the Electric Power Research Institute. Scientists and engineers from eight universities and three national laboratories as well as leading power and industry consultants could find no "show stoppers". There are many areas of the country where the grid needs to be upgraded anyway, and the supergrid would eliminate transmission losses while linking together different types of power plants so that the most efficient production could be used. There are times when wind power produces more than is needed in a given area, and the excess could be used to produce the hydrogen for the supergrid, or the electricity could be sent to a distant location where it is needed. It isn't very practical now with big line losses. The whole system should have a net gain in efficiency. Del

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