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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
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- Subject: Re: leukemia vs. EMF
- Message-ID: <23NOV199213561059@csa3.lbl.gov>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:56:00 GMT
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- > Are there high-voltage DC lines? I didn't know this. What are they used for?
-
- In power transmission, DC is increasingly used for *really* high voltage
- transmission over distances (many hundreds of miles) that make impedance
- effects a significant obstacle in AC transmission. The main technological
- obstacle to DC used to be the feasibility of high-voltage, high-power
- conversion equipment. There are also political obstacles (apparently with
- acceptable technological fixes) having to do with telephone interference
- and pipeline corrosion. DC is also used for underground/underwater
- transmission lines.
-
- The silver anniversary edition of IEEE Spectrum, Volume 25, Number 11,
- has a good article on the subject in the context of the Pacific Intertie.
- The Intertie is an undeservedly obscure example of engineering on a
- grand scale -- obscure, perhaps, because unlike a dam or a skyscraper,
- its scope has no visual cues and its technical audacity is not obvious
- to the layman. But I digress. Spectrum, the general-interest science
- magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is
- something you ought to monitor anyway if you're interested in the
- alleged health effects of EMFs.
-
- Happy reading,
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
-