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Originally Posted by echomodder
DC transmission is VERY inefficient. Just Thomas Edison.  |
Not an electrical engineer are you?
HVDC is very efficient. I know Hydro Quebec uses it and it is used extesively by Manitoba Hydro where the bulk of the provinces power is generated in the north and used or sold to the south.
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/corporate/ar/...ilitiesMap.pdf
Converter Stations
As I understand it, there is no inductive resistance with DC and there is a phenominon in AC where the current clings to the perimeter of the conductor, so the conductance of the core is wasted.