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QUOTE=Titanium Cat;172951 I don’t know. You are the one who brought Kennedy up and the entire topic of DC transmissions in the first place, not me.
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Thought you might be interested is all...next time I'll know better.
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I corrected your confusion about what Kennedy was talking about.
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You haven't corrected my confusion at all. It remains unclear what he is talking about. Even if you run one line down the center of the USA, this serves no purpose whatsoever. If he's worried about connecting remote solar and wind installations, then his HVDC line will need to run to every single remote area in the USA, and if this is the case, then he is talking about an HVDC grid that is as large and convoluted as the current AC grid.
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Hopefully so but they aren’t going quietly hence a variety of new PR campaigns on their part. Regardless it doesn’t mean they would decide to invest in a power backbone that would benefit green only energy sources which is what Kennedy was suggesting.
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Coal-fired power companies must either be satisfied with zero growth, or they must make capital investments to scrub 99% of the CO2 emissions, and/or they can invest in alternatives to the status quo.
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The US will not be able to solve its energy/emission problems with localized power production alone; it’s just one piece of the solution.
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If you think about 120 million homes and 7 million or so businesses, who all can greatly reduce their power needs by using solar and wind technologies, and within very short distances to a majority of towns in the US there are solar and wind farms, this would be considered at least by me to be one gigantic step for mankind!
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You do have to remember than millions of people don’t have such power supply problems and so they don’t rationalize the need for local production as much even if there are other good reasons for them to do.
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And...millions of people do have these issues.
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They will still need grid power because solar and wind are intermittent and it will be quite some time before they can be overdeveloped and used in combination with an energy storage system.
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Homes are being built every single day which are off the grid! There are two homes on adjacent properties to me which are off the grid. The homes are properly designed, they use solar and battery storage, and both have back-up propane generators. Used homes are being converted every day as well. This is not a new or obscure concept.