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long distance DC works, and is cost effective. The question is how to price network inter-connections, and especially how to price connections with non-power-consuming areas...

Wind power
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:27:33 PM EST
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I didn't realise, I thought it was one of those "good ideas" that had never really gone anywhere cos of the investment in an existing technology.

my point about political will still applies tho'

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:32:40 PM EST
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your political point stands fully.

Wind power
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 03:17:57 PM EST
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An EU Smart Grid initiative could help to solve those pricing problems through a CEP - Common Energy Policy - that works with the other regional policies.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 01:32:52 PM EST
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o Splendid! Energy without borders! (see map) You've captured the Desertec "animus" and rationale for ALIEN INVASION and beneficial interest in POTENTATE FRATERNIZATION in a word or two. Well done.

What's good for the EU is good for "90% of the world".

Gadaffi 2020!

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 03:06:51 PM EST
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