¶ High Voltage Power Transmission (1)
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High Voltage Power Transmission:
“You can only introduce power into an area for so long before you have to feed the people and power is no good without eating. . . The most incredible thing is that in the areas where all the people are there is no power or food. . . So everything comes back to electrical power. . . Identifying the kilowatts with the internal metabolics. . . what theya are really doing is getting on to energy networks. That’s where the standard of living is. . . We talk about this longer transmission of energy from here to there. To get work done. There is no way that we can get work done in quantity and speed compared to that of electrical transmission. Better than pipelines or tankers, and so forth. To get it from here to there you have to use relatively high voltage. After World War I the United States was set on a new level of high voltage for transmission and we’ve been operating on that . . . until we have now come to a new era realizing we could step up to a million kilowatts from 138,000. Through the past decades you could only transmit about 350 miles, which meant that you couldn’t really reach the next time zone. In generating electricity whatever you generate that isn’t used, is wasted.”
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- RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul’69
