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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1019780)6/7/2017 11:30:22 PM
From: Heywood40  Read Replies (2) of 1573591
 
The laws of physics make a linear solar farm financially impractical.

DC line losses in transmission require electricity to be converted to AC for transmission to have worthwhile efficiency, but having a linear system thousands of miles long would require too many inverters over the distances involved, and cable sizes that are too large to make it economically feasible.
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