I always wondered how these were made. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2243029362808318/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘transmission’ Category:
2024-11-17 UK’s National Grid, Tom Scott Tells Us From A Transmission Pylon
Windy so lots of wind turbines. They have 65 gigawatts of generation connected to the network. https://www.facebook.com/tomscott/videos/1683183565559839/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-11-11 Ultra High Voltage Workers In China
Notice the second worker clamping the conductor into that hexagonal ring. Wow! Each conductor is the size of his wrist! But it’s even more amazing there are *six* of them in each bundle! There are 3 or 6 of the bundles, and each bundle is held up by hugh insulators. Each bundle of 6 conductors
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2024-04-14 Drone Recharges From HV AC line
Wow! It just clips onto the HV cable and recharges while it’s hanging there. Presumably the drone has an inductive pickup coil that’s up against the conductor that’s carrying hundreds of amps. I bet Joe Tegtmeyer would like to have one of these! https://www.facebook.com/interestingengineering/videos/1123581112297321/?mibextid=NnVzG8 https://www.facebook.com/reel/415716777728231?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-03-18 HVDC Is The New Pipeline Says Michael Barnard
Very informative article about several things involving fossil fuels. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2023/12/02/most-pipelines-will-be-replaced-with-hvdc-but-rest-will-be-electrified/?fbclid=IwAR0KNFVVUjgqXL3xLMiKcELNHMz4YZZUgoUGQTd-lOx1xsiVXe1KEWtlM68&sh=caba8276118e
2024-02-24 Reconductoring To Increase Grid Capacity
Reconductoring: The Quick Way To Double Grid Capacity https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/24/reconductoring-the-quick-way-to-double-grid-capacity/
2024-02-15 India To Build 30 GW Solar And Wind Facility
30 Gigawatts! They say that that’s enough to power 18 million Indian homes. This will most likely be the biggest project in the world – for quite some time. It takes about 3 million solar panels per gigawatt, so if half the 30 GW is solar, that’s 45 million solar panels. The other 15GW would
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2023-12-03 EIA Webpage On CAISO, Curtailment
The EIA tells about how California’s excess solar energy is being curtailed. The solar should *not* be curtailed if excess capacity is the sole reason. CAISO should be mandated to curtail fossil fuel power plants before curtailing renewables, obviously because renewables are preventing fossil fuels from having to be burned and hence reducing the amount
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2023-11-23 H2 Advocates/ICCT Don’t Understand PPAs, RECs, Wholesale, Retail Electricity
First, the Prime Directive: The release of GHGs – greenhouse gases – by humans into the atmosphere must be stopped. Burning fossil fuels for industry and transportation make up a major part of those GHGs. Fossil fuels must be replaced by fuels that add no GHGs to the atmosphere. Hydrogen is one choice. I want
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2023-11-20 Will HVDC Across Oceans Be The Future?
Engineering with Rosie Barnes explains HVDC and underground and undersea cables. Including the Xlink from Morocco to the UK, Basslink Tasmania to Australia, and the longest, Australia to Singapore. She believes that all the continents will be linked. Says there are plans for undersea HVDC cables between the UK and Newfoundland. It’s a 13.5 min
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