ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | reply to Peter Griffin
Superconducting Wire for BPL?
After the New York power outage there is more talk about implementing superconducting wire to lessen the load on power grids. Anyone care to speculate how that might affect BPL? |
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Microhard3
join:2001-08-03
Huntington Beach, CA | Or better yet how much will this cost? |
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David95037
join:2003-04-16
Morgan Hill, CA
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Well if you are going to replace wires, run fiber at the same time. More bandwidth than you can imagine, and no pollution.
Not sure how you would string a superconducting cable on power poles. Guess the idea came out of the BPL group (about the same amount of sense). |
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David95037
join:2003-04-16
Morgan Hill, CA
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said by Microhard3  :
Or better yet how much will this cost?
Easy answer, the consumer gets to pay!!!
[text was edited by author 2003-08-22 12:44:16] |
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AthlGrond
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join:2002-04-25
Aurora, CO
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said by ronpin :
After the New York power outage there is more talk about implementing superconducting wire to lessen the load on power grids. Anyone care to speculate how that might affect BPL?
Since superconducting wire capable of carrying those high of loads over those great of distances does not exist (let alone superconducting wire that functions at temperatures found in the habitable portions of the earth) it will not affect it at all.  |
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rf_engineer
join:2003-08-04
USA
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said by ronpin :
After the New York power outage there is more talk about implementing superconducting wire to lessen the load on power grids. Anyone care to speculate how that might affect BPL?
Conductivity of the wires isn't a factor in the problems with BPL. It's an issue of shielding and the inherent nature of power lines to radiate high frequencies, which BPL uses.
Replacing the power lines with coaxial cable or as others have mentioned running fiber with the power lines are solutions. |
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N8SA
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No worries about the Superconductor. The power company I work for has been doing an EPRI study on Superconductor for power lines. After 5 years and millioms it was recently shelved. We could not make it work----and because of the piping needed it would be a sealed system---basically as a standard cable system....which I as a ham would like to see them on a shielded system.
BPL comes down to this. You add a broadband RF signal to the largest antenna grid in the world and they say it won't cause interference? GET REAL! |
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