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Originally Posted by freebeard
Two-Bit da Vinci does some noodling about an intercontinenetal energy grid.
There should be a Bedford's Law that says the any headline that starts with INSANE in all caps is probably true.
Anyways, at 10:56 you see his proposed route, a Y that connects three solar farms at Central Australia, Algiers and the Mojave in California.
Compare, for instance, Buckminster Fuller's World Energy Grid from 1981.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig3_253630909
The video proposes Aluminum conductors and concludes the grid would cost more than the annual global GDP. No consideration for high temperature superconductors.
We should choose to do it not because it is easy, but because it is hard. |
Didn't Europe just try that but with natural gas pipelines?
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