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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Isn't it astonishing that gummints pay people to reproduce in the midst of a population explosion?
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If I were still doing on-line dating, I might as well use "How do I get in on this payment to reproduce thing?" as my headline.
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
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. |
Then I am not spending my imaginary $100 billion on that!
It is not like you can just run a line merely long enough to reach land on both sides, set up solar panels, and offer twenty-four-hour solar energy to whoever wanted it. The idea really does require electricity to travel from one hemisphere to the other, and even if you had a line running along the arctic circle, that would be completely useless for a good part of the year.
It is an interesting idea, though. Those toothpaste reactors definitely sound like a better idea. Nuclear is good enough for France, aren't they stereotypically picky or something?
I was in Paris a few times. I was not impressed with their croissants.