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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (10795)	3/28/2001 1:18:55 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 12823

Frank, Belinda is one of the walking wounded. She should have moved to Humboldt County and become a plantation queen when she had her chance. She would have been a tad young for the first migration in '68, after the summer of love. But she's truly part of that generation. Making do and gettin' by. Anyway, since we are in agreement that she's one lucky babe to live in a town with rent control, I've got some bigger fish to fry. And I want to do it in a New York nanosecond. I've been thinking about this DC intertie between the BPA dams and the major distribution points in SoCal. Got any skinny on this one? I know it's not exactly your bailiwick, but this truly intrigues me. Generally, DC systems are considered suitable for local, short haul distribution or high amperage applications like the Muni trolley car system in San Francisco. But Edison was shot down by Westinghouse, following Tesla about 100 years ago when it was decided that alternating current was to be the modus operandi for most distribution systems in the world. So, what gives with the DC intertie? It is 1,500 miles long and inexplicable to me. Or at least, neither the BPA nor the buyers of their jam are forthcoming about why this became the economically practical solution. Anyone got a clue? Just wondering, Ray