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Re: Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

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by: whit3rd - Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:53 UTC

On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 11:24:14 AM UTC-8, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2022-11-17 20:03, Commander Kinsey wrote:

> > I thought there was a problem with capacitance sending AC a long
> > distance, hence DC to the UK? Yet they're managing AC throughout
> > most of Europe?
> There is a problem with capacitance and inductance sending high voltage
> underground or undersea for significant distances, which DC doesn't have.

.... to which one should add, the problems of corona (which requires fat cables
in air) and earth conduction (a leakage resistance that inductively couples to AC)
which limit all installations, even airborne lines that don't take the low paths.

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