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Old 10-02-2009, 05:17 PM   #44 (permalink)
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...beats walking...
 
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post
...transmission lines do make a fair bit of heat overall but they are working on that too, i.e. high voltage DC.
...with the world climatics going UPWARDS, not downwards toward absolute zero, ain't no way DC-energy is going to be "transmitted" by ANY wire -- even super-conducting wires -- with todays or tomorrows technologies.

...unless YOU know something my college textbooks didn't tell me.
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