Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:17 pm Post subject: DC can be used for transmission, but big investment
Apparently, there are some advantages of using direct current when extremely high transmisison voltages are used. Quebec uses extreme voltages (735K) due to the long distance it transfers power generated at James Bay dams - 1,200 km to the St. Lawrence Valley.
This is an interesting web page in which they discuss clever use of the capacitance characteristics of the grid and use asynchronous connection to interchange with neghbouring power grids.
The conversion and switching of DC power on the grid is a big investment however. The Radisson swtich yards of Hydro-Quebec occupy the equivalent of 100 football fields of area to handle 6.6 MW of power.
http://www.hydroquebec.com//visit/virtual_visit/poste_radisson.html
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