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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.
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Your question suggests that you've already run the numbers and your anticipating some sweet Freudesnshade from a 'stupid' reply.
There's no shortage of aluminum.And it can be processed with electricity from renewable sources.
Hydrocarbons,otherwise combusted out tailpipes of fossil cars,could become cable insulation at no additional expense.
Cable-laying shipping is already in the pipeline today.Water transport is the lowest entropy transportation known.
Railroad track for instance costs $3,000,000/mile.
Cable would be cheaper and last virtually forever.
With distributed production there's no reason why we'd need the entire load carried on a single conductor.
With the equivalent of a Tesla Power Wall at each home/business,we could provide for our own needs perhaps.
All I see is jobs,energy independence,a stable investment environment,and a planet worth handing down to future generations.
Although there's a lot of money to be made from unemployment,energy dependence,price volatility,and rapacious,venal,avaricious,corporate sociopathy.$Trillions!