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Bernardo de La Paz

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8. Apple did

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:15 PM

Feb 1

Docking recharging pads are wireless. They run about 7 to 30 watts of power over a negligible air gap.

The problem with shipping gigawatts of power by beam is that it is inefficient and will fry people, birds, and things when it goes off target or they fly through the beam. Weather can routinely disrupt it. The telecommunications interference would be horrific.

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Quebec is building two more huge dams in Labrador, Newfoundland. [View all] applegrove Feb 1 OP

Liquefied Hydrogen? Neat, I did not know this. I suppose that they use the excess elec power to freeze the excess SWBTATTReg Feb 1 #1

I meant liquified hydrogen not natural gas. Sorry. applegrove Feb 1 #2

Ahhh! Thanks! It would be a neat trick to make natural gas by liquefying hydrogen only, but there is quite a bit SWBTATTReg Feb 1 #3

Here is a story on the Germany deal with Newfoundland from a few years ago. applegrove Feb 1 #4

Interesting! They are almost just as put in a new cable(s) on the ocean floor, able to transmit electrical power, SWBTATTReg Feb 1 #5

Apple did Bernardo de La Paz Feb 1 #8

Not good...perhaps one day, the bugs will be worked out, or another mechanism will be developed that will do SWBTATTReg Feb 1 #10

I think there is an electrical cable to Nova Scotia from Newfoundland. applegrove Feb 1 #12

Liquefying is not freezing Bernardo de La Paz Feb 1 #6

Ahhh, thanks for the clarification. I suspect then, that keeping frozen hydrogen frozen even harder to do/maintain, SWBTATTReg Feb 1 #7

Newfoundland elec power shipped to Nova Scotia & New England by underwater cable Bernardo de La Paz Feb 1 #9

Thanks! Fascinating topic, just fascinating. SWBTATTReg Feb 1 #11