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To: tejek who wrote (684244)	11/10/2012 6:24:49 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584722

>> The truth is electric wires above ground is the very least of our problem. And it results from overspending on defense while reducing tax revenues to dangerously low levels. Idiocy.

To: tejek who wrote (684244)	11/11/2012 1:20:27 PM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1584722

Electric wires still over ground in your favorite Germany certainly isn't caused by any overspending on their defense. They never spent much on defense, no need for that while being under the US protective hand since WW II. The problem is a different one which your level of education doesn't allow for you to understand. Electric wires under ground only works with HVDC (high voltage DC, a Swedish transmission method pioneered by ASEA, later merged with BBC to for ABB, by the way). High voltage AC only works in wires over ground due to the reactive loads of transmission lines on the AC source = power plant. The problem of switching HVDC has not yet been solved even though ABB the other day claimed to be getting closer to it. The case is more complicated than this, but again, you'd need 5 years in engineering school (in your case more like 10 years) to understand any of this. As said, if your German friends claim they put the wires in earth, they are full of it. As a matter of fact, the German North--> South power lines aimed at transporting all that wind power now (potentially) generated out of the coast in the North sea - still don't exist. That project is years behind plan. /Taro