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Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:qlgoki01v2l@drn.newsguy.com:
I have seen some new local distribution HV lines and poles get
placed recently, and the new hardware I saw made me think that
America could get back about ten of those percentage points by
upgrading our grid infrastructure.
Because I have also seen lines that were so leaky that one could
ride under them at 4:30 in the morning and smell the heavy Ozone
laden air falling down off the leaky as hell insulators at this one
pole in San Diego. That area has a LOT of noticeably leaky nodes. I
am aghast that their power system works at all.
news:qlgoki01v2l@drn.newsguy.com:
legg wrote...
I've heard of transmission system losses
nearing 20% (2009). Perhaps that was a
worst-case scenario for places that
don't generate much of their own.
A number like that isn't surprising, for
the entire system input-to-output. It's
individual elements, xfmr, etc., that are
under 1%, have to be I guess, to allow a
bit more for long transmission lines and
still keep the total loss to under 20%.
I have seen some new local distribution HV lines and poles get
placed recently, and the new hardware I saw made me think that
America could get back about ten of those percentage points by
upgrading our grid infrastructure.
Because I have also seen lines that were so leaky that one could
ride under them at 4:30 in the morning and smell the heavy Ozone
laden air falling down off the leaky as hell insulators at this one
pole in San Diego. That area has a LOT of noticeably leaky nodes. I
am aghast that their power system works at all.