Comment by Roark66
2 years ago
Very cool, but I see one major problem with this. You need pretty large currents in these lines. They say above 100A. I'm not sure what are the usage patterns of such lines I'd be surprised if it wasn't substantially below 100A of current even on lower voltage lines.
For example the lowest voltage that is used in my country (befoeits stepped down for consumers) is 10kV. This system would need 1MW of load to be useful. So let's say the line supplies a small community of 250 houses. Each house would need to be running a load of 4kW. How reliably can we predict such usage?
So I think this is going to be limited to "perch" on large inter-City connections.
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