If a green pivot is to happen, power grids must become “supergrids,” continent-spanning networks that can move green energy thousands of miles. The technology is here, but politics may stand in the way.
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We should de-globalize the world not further it.
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7:47 Thank you for your commentary!
Elon Musk's Boring Company can help create a world wide super grid. Has anyone asked him yet? I mean, im sure he would be happy to help. Look at what he did for australia
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12:22 I just BET China wants a worldwide electrical grid.
I hope the North American supergrid is built between the US and Canada. It would be expensive but there are so many benefits to make such a project worth the cost
Powerlines are extremely expensive. Solar and wind are cheap, and as are, by comparison with high voltage DC lines, home and small town scale storage batteries. A townsperson with six months of training and a year’s apprenticeship can oversee the installation and maintenance of solar and small utility scale battery systems. Much less equipment and training would be needed than to build and maintain HVDC.
never expect mongol super grid until china exist.
Yes, the US needs a new power grid. With power production of Fusion, it's so powerful that it's going to produce the equivalent to what all forms or electricity (coal, nuclear fission, solar, oil, hydrodames) combined, Fusion creates in one second. But the current power grid can't handle this output of Fusion. It's so powerful that a worldwide power distribution is more called for. And currently no countries power gride can handle the output of Fusion.
No the world dont need super grids, this is a old way of energy planning with high CAPEX and OPEX costs.
What the world needs is to produce the power close to the end user. Such pruduction technologies could be solar panels build into the houses and 4. generation mini nuclear power plants
the world needs fewer humans, THATS IT
Quebec Hydro used HVDC technology since before 1990. Quebec Canada's population has some of the lowest electricity costs in the world. Quebec Hydro uses a 1480KM HVDC line to transmit up to 2000MW of power to Montreal and New England. Canada!
NO WAY ! The aggregation of needs and supply leads it's self to massive corruption and extortion as we have seen very markedly here in Australia.
And when did you get hood winked into the climate change narrative by Bill gates and others ?
What kind of misconception is that of DC not being able to efficiently traverse extreme distances ? AKA siemens 1 Million Volt DC is the most efficient on the planet. And what is the thinking here with DC being inferior
LOL those Americans and their obsession with land ownership.
THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED SUPERGRIDS!
It needs individuals and small enclaves to be DECENTRALIZED AND INDEPENDENT!
If it is so politically difficult then how come here in the UK you can place an order on a Chinese server? If you can build a worldwide network of telecoms cables then really there is no greater problem doing it with thicker cable, albeit a fair bit more expensive, but overall it will save you money. What is not to like?
10:33 The Champlain Hudson Power Express is different from the other exemples in that it starts outside of the US in Canada. Québec currently has power surpluses and has been trying for more than a decade to build new lines to export that electricity. Québec is still building more capacity despite having surpluses. Québec wants to become the battery and power supplier of the entire North East. Québec's power grid is also very interesting in that it has some of the highest voltage AC power lines in North America, with the primary and secondary transmission lines operating at 735Kv and 315Kv AC. Theses high voltage lines were built in order to get power from large dams up north down to the population centers in the south over a distance of almost a thousand kilometers. The modern high voltage AC power lines was in fact invented for the needs of that project.