Sentences with phrase «electricity huge distances»
When Edison championed the notion of AC power supplies that could send electricity huge distances, he little realized that this would create massive plant for burning fossil fuels, or nuclear plants producing deadly waste that would remain deadly for millinia.
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It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.
Tuckey is an enthusiast for the tidal power potential of the Kimberley region, as indeed am I. Given the incentives associated with a high enough price for carbon, and reforms to the National Electricity Market to encourage more investment in long - distance transmission lines, there is huge potential in tidal energy.