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global solar interconnector

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global solar interconnector

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Postby schober » April 2nd, 2018, 9:12 am

Powering Europe with solar via the global solar interconnector
by Roger Andrews

http://euanmearns.com/powering-europe-w ... connector/

"Up until now the fact that The Sun does not shine at night (and often not at all in winter) has been an obstacle to the deployment of solar energy in Europe. Recent research, however, has revealed that ........................... more"

Should be good for the price of copper and ANTO etc

TESLA should also benefit as they're reportedly on the point of developing a superconducting cable that operates at sea bed temperature

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Re: global solar interconnector

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Postby Haoma » April 2nd, 2018, 9:20 am

April 1st...

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Re: global solar interconnector

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Postby dspp » April 2nd, 2018, 10:37 am

Yes it is an April 1st joke.

But there is a glimmer of truth in the concept, both N-S links (Desertec) and E-W links. It is something I am looking into slowly along with freight rail, and linked with.

regards, dspp

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Re: global solar interconnector

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Postby ReformedCharacter » April 2nd, 2018, 11:28 am

dspp wrote:Yes it is an April 1st joke.

But there is a glimmer of truth in the concept, both N-S links (Desertec) and E-W links. It is something I am looking into slowly along with freight rail, and linked with.

regards, dspp


Buckminster Fuller wrote about a global electricity connector many years ago (Critical Path), I re-read it recently and he was a very farsighted and interesting individual.

RC


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