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Old 05-23-2018, 10:28 AM   #1812 (permalink)
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intercontinental grid

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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
Here is a quick start to discussing intercontinental electrical cable.
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The Energy Age: Intercontinental Energy Grid
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Which still doesn't address the density and storage problem of converting electricity to work in large farm, mining, construction machines. Our tractors will need some mighty long extension cords.
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What will actually happen is that most people remaining will grow their own food by muscle power after the age of fossil fuel.
As of 2008,work in this direction was already under construction,or planned for:
*Baltic Sea
*North Sea
*Spain
*Ireland
*European national grid
*Algeria-to-Europe
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Smaller entities were connecting renewable energy to new transmission lines in:
*Florida
*Texas
*Colorado
*New Mexico
*California
*Minnesota
*Nevada
*N.Dakota
*S.Dakota
*Utah
*Wisconsin
*Wyoming
*Kansas
*China
*India
*Brazil
*S.Korea
*Iceland
*New Zealand
*Philippines
*France
*British Columbia
*Japan
*Russia
*Turkey
*Oklahoma
*SE USA
*Upper Midwest USA
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