It would be interesting to see what the smarties come up with as an eventual replacement for iron/steel.
Maybe we can sell power, turn all our outback land into base load solar power plants, run some cables to Asia and live off never ending power generating income from a free source. Just a thought.
Maybe we can sell power, turn all our outback land into base load solar power plants, run some cables to Asia and live off never ending power generating income from a free source. Just a thought.
Maybe we can sell power, turn all our outback land into base load solar power plants, run some cables to Asia and live off never ending power generating income from a free source. Just a thought.
Iceland tried that, their power is basically free.
The tech is not there to transmit power that far, short of making vast amounts of hydrogen.
And shipping it in, Iceland can make all the hydrogen the world could ever need, but they use petrol just like us.
Odd, we've actually had the tech to transmit electricity significant distances for more than 40 years, but apparently, according to you, it doesn't exist yet.
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And shipping it in, Iceland can make all the hydrogen the world could ever need, but they use petrol just like us.
More rubbish. They use petrol, because car manufacturers are being really slow in mass producing hydrogen cell vehicles, mostly because petrol actually damages engines and manufacturers make more money from parts than they do the original vehicle.
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Things are not as they seem.
Peter
Yes, you. Trying to appear as if you know anything.
they have sun in asia too!
19 Oct 2014, 07:17 PM
The sun shines in asia too!
Except most of Asia doesn't have a dirty great big, mostly flat desert in the middle of it. Lots of space, not a lot of people, nearly no farming.
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
Odd, we've actually had the tech to transmit electricity significant distances for more than 40 years, but apparently, according to you, it doesn't exist yet.
More rubbish. They use petrol, because car manufacturers are being really slow in mass producing hydrogen cell vehicles, mostly because petrol actually damages engines and manufacturers make more money from parts than they do the original vehicle.
Yes, you. Trying to appear as if you know anything. Except most of Asia doesn't have a dirty great big, mostly flat desert in the middle of it. Lots of space, not a lot of people, nearly no farming.
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
Nice edit, but doesn't change anything about Mike's post. We're talking about putting cables down between Australia and Asia.
You're the one who brought up Iceland, they don't export electricity, they export fish and aluminium. Processing aluminium is a very electricity intensive activity.
Why would you propose a power line distance that would finish in the middle of the ocean??
You must be perversely mentally retarded. oh i see you join the 2 of your power lines together and that gets you there.
Peter
Wow, I'm not, you're the one stuck on Iceland, if I remember my high school geography, Iceland is nowhere near Asia.
Also your link provides the distance between the center of Iceland and the center of the UK, if there was transmission stations at Höfn, Iceland and Durness, Scotland, the distance becomes 840 km, which is still much shorter than the longer bipole in Canada. And if it is really a problem, a boosting station could be built on Faroe Islands, which is about half way between.And another one, blows your concerns out of the water...
Rio Madeira HVDC system
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Rio Madeira The longest transmission link in the world - 2,375 kilometers.
The Rio Madeira HVDC system is a 7,100 MW ± 600 kV high-voltage direct current transmission system in Brazil being built to export electricity from new hydro power plants on the Madeira River in the Amazon Basin to major load centers in southeastern Brazil – a distance of 2,375 km, making it the longest transmission link in the world when commissioned in 2013-2014.
"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear." - Gene Roddenberry
"Balloon animals are a great way to teach children that the things they love dearly, may spontaneously explode" -- Lee Camp
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