On 6/8/2010 9:19 AM, Martin Ewing wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
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> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Peter Laws<plaws@plaws.net> wrote:
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It looks like it has a lot of advantages, particularly on long haul,
buried, or undersea runs.
73
Roger (K8RI)
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>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 23:05, Jim Brown<jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
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>>> Did anyone notice that he said it was a DC line being planned?
>>>
>>
>> I did. Haven't read much of this but assume Mr Edison is laughing
>> somewhere and Mr Tesla is rolling his eyes.
>>
>> Don't get how these are more efficient though, since surely there
>> would be loss when the AC gets rectified at one end and loss when the
>> resulting DC gets chopped into AC for transformation at the other.
>> But it's apparently the new big thing.
>>
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