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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (308645)11/1/2006 10:13:14 PM
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"We could easily fit a 100 mile square solar farm into Arizona. "

One problem is line losses. The longer the wires, the higher the resistance. Suffice it to say, they aren't going to run a power line from Arizona to, say, California, economically. Now a superconducting line would work fine, but be incredibly expensive, even if those high temperature superconductors could carry enough load. Regular low-temp. superconductors would be even worse.
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