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Old 05-14-2018, 01:40 PM   #1686 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler
How much wire does this take to transmit 17TW across oceans? Many of these ideas sound great until you do the math.
It's for load balancing, you don't need the whole output to be transmitted. It's a one world ocean, you need only cross the Bering Strait. Bucky was good with math.
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