Hacker News

1770 readers

1 users here now

This community serves to share top posts on Hacker News with the wider fediverse.

Rules

0. Keep it legal

Keep it civil and SFW
Keep it safe for members of marginalised groups

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

3,800-km cable offers glimpse of a global power grid (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] stevestevesteve 1 points 1 year ago

Hvdc and a truly global grid brings substantial changes in what you're saying. With solar energy being extremely cheap, and storage being relatively expensive, even if you have substantial transmission losses, it can be worthwhile to transmit that solar energy. Would a long undersea cable be more effective than huge battery banks? Hard to tell but I don't think it's something I'd write off without hard numbers, it's likely closer than you think