I always wondered how these were made. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2243029362808318/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘Energy transmission’ Category:
2025-07-13 China Has + & – 800kV EHVDC Transmission Lines
Link to video showing what I commented on below. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1193757159114428/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Did you notice that there are only two conductors going to the pylon in the background? That means this is a DC powerline. And there are six conductors in each bundle. That’s extremely high current, over 5000 amps. But the really amazing thing you can
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2025-03-31 Drone Closeup Of Power Pylon And Worker
This is a short video. The insulator strings each have 30 insulators. That’s several hundred kilovolts AC. Each of the three phases has a bundle of four conductors. That’s a very large amount of power!! https://www.facebook.com/reel/552027003839740/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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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2024-08-13 Debunking Myths: “10 Reasons All Electric Is A Bad Idea”
Each point of the link is debunked. Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea #1.) “”Electric systems are awfully wasteful.”” This assumes that all electrical power is generated by thermal power plants. Yes, 2/3 of the energy used to heat the steam goes to waste and only one third gets to produce electricity. But
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2024-05-28 US Offshore Wind: Is It Dead In The Water?
The US has a huge amount of land with a very good supply of wind, and this has been developed with a large amount of WTs – wind turbines. Iowa has a lot of WTs, but Texas is the WT leader by far, with over 30 Gigawatts of installed WTs. Installing WTs is relatively easy
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2024-05-15 Reconductoring Transmission Lines
Good article a few months old. JHAT recently had this reconductoring topic. This article also describes the Heimdall Ball temperature monitoring. One thing that has not been talked about is the use of BESS – battery energy storage systems – to reduce the peak load on the transmission lines. That’s what they did in Australia
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2024-04-28 US Plan To Upgrade 100k Miles Of Transmission Lines In 5 Years
Short article about deployment of enhancements such as high performance conductors. Quote: “”…and up to $331 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for a new 285-mile transmission line that will carry more than 2 gigawatts (GW) of transmission capacity from Idaho to Nevada.”” The US just came up with a plan to upgrade 100k miles
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2024-03-20 Claims By House Committee Are Dubious
This is claiming that the grid will be overloaded, but that claim is contradicted by the latest figures that show the grid has use 1% **less** electricity. The following URL claims that the grid will not be able to handle the growing load. This would be true *if* the grid was the only source of
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