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Originally Posted by freebeard
Energy: R.B.Fuller explained that an electrical grid intertie across the Bering Strait would allow the global shifting of solar input. In the 70s.
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Line losses. Figure roughly 1% per 100 miles for HV, which makes anything over about 4000 miles impractical. (See e.g. Wikipedia:
Electric power transmission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) Of course you have to remember that there's not much demand for electricity close to the Bering Strait, so you have to run your line across most of Alaska and a big chunk of Canada before finding many customers, and a similar distance on the Siberian side.