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To: big guy who wrote (538)	8/16/2003 4:43:55 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 973

>> Next week should be interesting. I was really tempted, mid-day, to buy some 12.5 calls. But I thought, "the runup has happened, there really are no new product developments that warrant this, it must be temporary". I probably could have made 25-30% before the day was up. Does anyone think we're going to see a continued runup like we saw with the California energy crisis?

To: big guy who wrote (538)	8/16/2003 8:59:59 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 973

big guy, There is one possibility that comes to mind. The use of superconducting links between different grids. These act as isolators and decouplers, since then each section can freewheel a little and need not be in phase with the neighbour. This saves some power losses, phases losses etc, but it also has the efficiency losses of conversion from AC to DC and back again, which can total 5% of the energy in modern systems(more??) So does this tradeoff become a net gainer for the system?? Hard to say, however someone who makes these links can suddenly get million of dollars worth of businessif it is decided that this is the way to go. SInce I am not an EE, any EE plese poke a hole or two in my arguments if you feel my errors are egregious enough. Bill